(HOUSTON, TX, October 9, 2007) - The University of Houston swimming and diving team takes its first step toward the 2007-08 season when it competes in the annual Red & White meet at 3 p.m., Wednesday, at the Campus Recreation & Wellness Center Natatorium.
Admission for the meet is free, and the public is invited to attend.
"Obviously, we are early in our season, but we are looking good," assistant coach Jarrod Marrs said. "We're happy with the progress we have already made and are looking forward to getting started and seeing where we are at."
The 13-event meet will consist of off events like the 250-yard medley relay, 125-yard freestyle, 75-yard butterfly, 75-yard breaststroke and the 300-yard individual medley. Although the events are nothing like what they will compete in during a regular-season dual meet, the intrasquad scrimmage gives the team a chance to compete.
"We're just looking for an opportunity to race and get the team in a meet environment," assistant coach Jarrod Marrs said. "We are especially curious to see what will happen when we put our newcomers on the starting blocks."
This marks the fifth consecutive season that the Cougar swimmers and divers have squared off against one another in a preseason meet. The meet will be looking for its first true winner as the four previous events have ended in ties.
Head coach Mark Taylor, diving head coach Jane Figueiredo, Marrs and assistant coach Jaime Lewis divided the team and selected the respective team captains.
Under the leadership of junior Doreen Polotzek, the Red Team will consist of juniors Sasha Schwendenwein and Michelle Hall, sophomore Linda Fox and freshmen Brittany Copeland, Courtney Forcucci, Markee Johnson and Paige Bissett. The White Team, under junior Andrea Pa'lmai, will be composed of sophomores Donna MacLeod, Jessica Shamburger and Kristine Kelly and freshmen Andrea Kells, Lacey Truelove and Lindsay Graves.
Following Wednesday's meet, the Cougar Swimming team opens the regular season at 5 p.m., Friday when it faces Southwestern in Georgetown.
The entire team will compete together Oct. 26-27 as it plays host to BYU, Florida International, New Orleans and Conference USA rival Rice during the second Phill Hansel Duals Weekend. That two-day meet begins at 5 p.m., Oct. 26 and wraps up at 11 a.m., Oct. 27.
The meet is named after longtime Swimming and Diving head coach Phill Hansel, who led the program from 1975 to 1996, earning 70 dual-meet victories and three Southwest Conference Coach of the Year honors.
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