100 Fly <\/p>\n
Joscelin Yeo of Cal, the Pac-10 champion, was the top qualifier in the 100 fly at 58.85. Misty Hyman of Stanford qualified second at second in 58.94. UCLA looks to score big in this event, being the only team to have two finalists as Julia Voitovitsch (59.77) and Katie Younglove (59.84) qualified third and fourth, respectively. Nevada\u2019s Liu Limin, the 1996 silver medallist in this event, swam leisurely to qualify fifth. Last year, she and Hyman waged a titanic battle in the 100 fly, with Hyman winning by a touch. Cal\u2019s Haley Cope, enjoying a great meet, qualified sixth, followed by ASU\u2019s Sarah Baham and Wisconsin\u2019s Gina Panighetti.<\/p>\n
200 Free
\nThis event promises to be a free-for all, with the top five qualifiers separated by only four-tenths of a second. Leading the qualifiers was Arizona sophomore Sarah Tolar, last year\u2019s runner-up to SMU\u2019s Martina Moravcova. Tolar clocked 1:57.72, nine-hundredths ahead of South African Helene Muller, representing Nebraska. Georgia freshman sensation Maritza Correia was third in prelims (1:57.95) with another Arizona sophomore, Emily Mastin, fourth (1:58.12). UNLV\u2019s Lorena Diaconescu was fifth (2:58.17). Rounding out the top eight were Owen Rada (Auburn), Ellen Stonebraker (Wisconsin) and Kim Black (Georgia).
\n\tThe tight race could produce an American record. The one-day-old mark of 1:56.46 was set in Athens yesterday by USC grad Lindsay Benko, leading off the American 4 x 200m freestyle relay at the Short Course World Championships.<\/p>\n
100 Breast
\nGeorgia\u2019s Kristy Kowal, winner of the 200 IM and a member of Georgia\u2019s world-record setting 400m medley relay last night, threw down the gauntlet in the prelims of the 100 meter breaststroke. The smooth-stroking Bulldog senior cruised to an American record of 1:06.37, erasing the 1:06.67 standard set by Amanda Beard, the 1996 Olympic silver medallist, last December. Beard split 31.75 en route to the new US mark, but she has her sights set on the world record of 1:05.40 set last September by South Africa\u2019s Penny Heyns
\n\tAuburn\u2019s Brook Monroe was the second-fastest qualifier at 1:07.35, followed by Arizona\u2019s Beard (1:07.46) and Northwestern\u2019s Amy Balcerzak, Cal's Stacianna Stitts, USC\u2019s Kristin MacGregor, Washington State\u2019s Erin Eldridge and Georgia\u2019s Ashley Roby were the remaining qualifiers.. UCLA, Arizona and Georgia each qualified a swimmer in the B final. Cal and Stanford were shut out.<\/p>\n
100 Back
\nThe 100 backstroke shapes up to be one of the most competitive events of this championship meet, with the world and American mark of 58.50, set by Angel Martino seven years ago, definitely in peril. Olympic gold medalist Beth Botsford, Arizona, was top qualifier at 59.42 followed closely b Stanford\u2019s Shelly Ripple (59.58) and Cal\u2019s Haley Cope (59.93). Arizona\u2019s Denali Knapp and Georgia\u2019s Courtney Shealy were tied in fourth at 1:00.07, though Shealy pumped out a 58.75 in leading off Georgia\u2019s record-setting medley relay last night. Sixth qualifier is Stanford\u2019s always-dangerous Catherine Fox. Fox won this event her first two years, then set an American record in prelims last year before being upset by Cal\u2019s Marylyn Chiang. North Carolina\u2019s Summer Mack qualified seventh, followed by the third Arizona swimmer in this final, Julie Manitt. Georgia has two swimmers in the B final, Arizona one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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