Tired swimmers do not produce great results.
The dive team swept both events at Saturday’s swim meet against Wyoming, but the swim team failed to impress, winning just two of its 14 events in the 190-110 loss.
This was the fifth meet in the last three weeks for the Lobos, and head coach Tracy Ljone said fatigue played a major role in how the team performed.
“Today was a tough day, we definitely have swum better this year already,” she said. “We had some good races in there, but I think they are just tired.”
Freshman Samantha Moss said even though the team did not win the meet, it competed well.
“I think we did awesome for being tired,” she said. “We definitely have not been resting this week, and we still trained hard … The attitudes were really positive the entire time, so I think we did good.”
The diving team was led by senior Ashlee Erickson, who took both the 1- and 3-meter diving events.
Erickson won the 1-meter dive, blowing away the competition with a score of 330.75 points. The next highest-scoring diver was Wyoming’s Sasha Andrie, with a score of 236.93.
Erickson has been named the MWC diver of the week on two separate occasions this season and again was ahead of the pack when she won the 3-meter dive with a score of 275.03. Sophomore Laura Lee Thomas finished second in the event with 266.18 points. Sophomore Megan Harper finished in third place in both of the diving events.
“The team did really great,” Erickson said “I was impressed, our girls are really good,”
The swim team’s lone victories came in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events.
Sophomore Jorgi Hobson took the 100-yard race, with a time of 57.32, and freshman Samantha Moss took the 200-yard race with a time of 2:06.70.
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Moss said it was important for her to win her race today when she saw her team was in need of a good finish.
“It felt great to win my event today because this was such a tough meet,” Moss said. “It gives me a lot of satisfaction to know that I’m one of the girls that can step up when we need to score points.”
Ljone said she has been impressed with how Moss has been performing this year because she is only a freshman.
“Samantha Moss is a great addition to the program,” she said. “The 200 fly is one of the toughest events, and she always blows it away.”
The Lobos don’t have another meet until Nov. 17, when the dive team travels to Tucson for the Wildcat Diving Invite, and the swim team travels to Houston on the same day for the Cougar Classic Fall Invite.
Ljone said the team is going to use this time to get rested and prepare for the meets.
“I think we’re ready for a few weeks off from competition,” Ljone said. “We’re going to train really hard the next few weeks, and then we’ll taper down and give the team a rest before we go to Houston for the invitational.”
UP NEXT
DIVING
Wildcat Diving Invite
Tucson, Ariz.
SWIMMING
Cougar Classic Fall Invite
Houston, Tex.
Nov. 17
