Meet of the Week Preview: Ohio State at Penn State

PHOENIX, Arizona, January 16. THIS weekend, SwimmingWorldMagazine.com will feature three separate meets as part of the Meet of the Week program. At the Division I level, we take a look at the women's meet between Ohio State and No. 15 Penn State in State College, Pa., on Jan. 19.

We also spotlight No. 12/17 Indianapolis heading to No. 5/7 Grand Valley State in Division II and the Division III match-up between Hartwick and St. Lawrence.

Next week, we will feature:
Jan. 26, 2007, Missouri-Rolla at Truman State
Jan. 27, 2007, Maryland at North Carolina
Jan. 27, 2007, UW-Stevens Point at UW-La Crosse

Here is a quick preview of the Ohio State/Penn State match-up:

Date and Time: Friday, January 19, 2007 – 4 p.m.
Location: State College, Pa.
Facility: McCoy Natatorium
CSCAA Rankings (as of Dec. 15):
Ohio State: NR
Penn State: 15

Ohio State's Last Time Out:
Ohio State women's swimming and diving team fell, 132-168, to Big Ten rival Northwestern Saturday at the Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The Ohio State divers continued their dual-meet dominance, sweeping both the 1- and 3-meter boards. Chelsea Davis took home a pair of diving titles for the third consecutive meet. Other individual event winners included Griet Buelens in the 200 fly and Colleen Schweitzer in the 200 breast.

Looking forward with Ohio State's women's head coach Jeanne Fleck:
We really excited to go to Penn State. We have never been there. They are the top of the Big Ten. We love to compete against teams that push us to be better and get us ready for Big Tens. It will be great for our top-end kids to race a top-end team. We are hoping to make it a close meet, and of course we want to win it. We are going give it everything we have. It should be a good match-up. We are looking forward to it.

Penn State's Last Time Out:
Penn State will look to shake off the rust as its last dual meet took place against West Chester in a SwimmingWorldMagazine.com Meet of the Week. The Nittany Lions won 10 out of the 13 events contested and also had the top times in two other events but swam all of its swimmers as exhibitions in both of those two events. Kelly Nelson's swim in the 500 freestyle highlighted the day. Swimming in the event for the first time this year, Nelson won it with a career-best time of 4:52.86, which was good enough for an NCAA B cut. The only NCAA cut (A or B) made on the day for the Nittany Lions, it was Nelson's sixth NCAA cut of the year as she also already has an A cut in the 200 fly as well as B cuts in the 100 fly and 400 IM.

Looking forward with Penn State's head coach Bill Dorenkott:
We are looking forward to the meet with Ohio State this weekend. Ohio State Swimming and Diving is one of the most dominant programs in conference history with five league titles on the women's side. Hopefully, some day we will be in such a position. Jeanne [Fleck] does a terrific job with their athletes and Vince [Panzano] has established himself as one of the best diving coaches in NCAA history. We are coming off of a long layoff from competition and need to be prepared from the first event until the last.

Top 2006-07 Times Comparison:
Women:
50 Free
OSU: 23.38, Elaine Chan
PSU: 23.50*, Michelle Meyers
100 Free
OSU: 51.99, Annie Rennebohm
PSU: 50.85*, Michelle Meyers
200 Free
OSU: 1:49.58, Griet Buelens
PSU: 1:47.82*, Molly Crispell
500 Free
OSU: 4:50.40, Griet Buelens
PSU: 4:50.62, Nikki Collins
1000 Free
OSU: 10:04.55, Griet Buelens
PSU: 9:56.89, Nikki Collins
1650 Free
OSU: 17:02.69, Griet Buelens
PSU: 16:38.08*, Nikki Collins
100 Back
OSU: 58.16, Jill Lockhart
PSU: 55.99*, Michelle Meyers
200 Back
OSU: 2:02.70, Jill Lockhart
PSU: 1:58.02*, Daphne Skelos
100 Breast
OSU: 1:04.94, Megan Alexander
PSU: 1:03.84, Lyndsey Smith
200 Breast
OSU: 2:19.99, Colleen Schweitzer
PSU: 2:18.05, Kaitlin O'Brien
100 Fly
OSU: 55.82, Griet Buelens
PSU: 54.65*, Karie Haglund
200 Fly
OSU: 2:01.65, Gulsah Gunenc
PSU: 1:58.48*, Kelly Nelson
200 IM
OSU: 2:05.48, Jill Lockhart
PSU: 2:02.84*, Kaitlin O'Brien
400 IM
OSU: 4:28.91, Gulsah Gunenc
PSU: 4:14.34*, Kaitlin O'Brien
200 Free Relay
OSU: 1:34.80
PSU: 1:35.44
400 Free Relay
OSU: 3:26.40
PSU: 3:24.25*
800 Free Relay
OSU: 7:31.00
PSU: 7:22.49*
200 Medley Relay
OSU: 1:46.33
PSU: 1:44.94
400 Medley Relay
OSU: 3:51.71
PSU: 3:43.64*
1M Diving
OSU: 294.15, Chelsea Davis
PSU: 277.43, Kimberlee Peifer
3M Diving
OSU: 329.70, Chelsea Davis
PSU: 306.52, Courtney Adlam

* – denotes meter conversion.

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