SCHEDULE
Thursday Jan. 12
Hawai’i at Rainbow Diving Invitational All Day
Friday Jan. 13
Cal State East Bay at San Jose State 1:00 p.m.
Friday-Saturday Jan. 13-14
Fresno State at Stanford All Day
Saturday Jan. 14
Nevada at UC Davis All Day
CSU Bakersfield at Fresno State 12:00 p.m.
Wisconsin at Hawai’i TBA
ATHLETES OF THE WEEK (Jan. 2-8)
New Mexico State’s Jessica Legge and Northern Arizona’s Kristy Ardavanis have been named the Verizon WAC Swimmer and Diver of the week, respectively, for the week of Jan. 2-8.
Legge, a freshman from Newcastle, Australia (Lambton HS), garnered runner-up honors in the 200 individual medley (2:08.34) at a five-team meet in Tucson, Ariz. She also paced the Aggies in the breaststroke events with a fourth-place showing in the 100 breast (1:04.75) and sixth-place finish in the 200 breast (2:21.11).
Ardavanis, a junior from Gilbert, Ariz. (Mesquite HS), won both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions over competitors from No. 5 Arizona and New Mexico State. She won the 3-meter by 12.65 points with a season-best score of 326.75. She won the 1-meter by 15.90 points with a score of 294.00. She has swept the diving events in five of the seven events this season in which she has competed on both boards, and has won the 1-meter in seven of the eight events she has competed in on that board.
Other swimmers nominated: North Dakota sophomore Morgan Lynch … Northern Arizona sophomore Rachel Palmer … San Jose State sophomore Darcie Anderson.
Other divers nominated: Hawai’i senior Daniella Nero … North Dakota senior Megan Keidel.
Fresno State Bulldogs (2-4)
Fresno State fell 165-135 to Idaho on Dec. 2 in a conference dual ... junior Rayanne Nguyen won the 100 butterfly with a time of 59.60 and won the 200 butterfly in 2:08.66 ... Junior Stacey Luke set a new career best in the 1-meter event scoring a 278.78 .. she set a new pool record and broke her previous record by more than three points (275.40) ... she also took second in the 3-meter competition with a score of 256.75 ... the Bulldogs are be off for over a month before returning to action with the diving squad competing at the Stanford Diving Invitational on Thursday and Friday ... the entire squad will be back in action when Fresno State hosts San Diego State, CSU Bakersfield and Cal State East Bay on Saturday.
Hawai‘i Rainbow Wahine (0-1)
The Rainbow Wahine returned to action, hosting the Hawai’i Diving Invitational on Jan. 6 ... Hawai’i divers won two of the three events during the competition, which also featured competitors from Drury, Harvard, Houston and Nevada ... senior Danilella Nero won the one-meter competition with a score of 298.85, besting second place Natasha Burgess (Houston) by more than 24 points ... Nero also won the three-meter competition with a score of 293.25 ... she added a third-place finish in the platform competition ... junior Hannah Bostick placed third in the one-meter competition ... UH will be back in action against Wisconsin in a dual meet on Saturday.
Idaho Vandals (2-3)
Idaho defeated Fresno State 165-135 on Dec. 2 in a conference dual in its last action ... freshman Rachel Millet won three individual events, taking the 200, 500 and 1000 freestyle races ... freshman Erica Anderson won the 100 and 200 backstroke events ... the Vandals also won both of the relays during the dual ... Anderson and Millet teamed with sophomore Megan Venlos and junior Kelsie Saxe in the 400 medley relay ... Anderson, Venlos, senior Katie Hendricks and senior Si Jia Pang combined to win the 200 freestyle relay, giving Anderson four victories on the day ... the Vandals are off for over a month before taking to the pool again at New Mexico State on Jan. 21 in a conference dual.
Nevada Wolf Pack (3-1)
The Nevada diving team dominated the platform discipline at the Hawai’i Diving Invitational on Saturday, occupying three of the top five spots ... sophomore Grace Huang won the platform event with a score of 262.95 ... sophomore Stephanie Hansen finished second with a score of 253.20, followed by senior Melyssa Charlton in fifth at 201.55 and sophomore Jennifer Arnold in seventh with a score of 167.50 ... Hansen and Huang placed fourth and fifth, respectively, in the three-meter competition ... the entire Wolf Pack squad hasn’t seen action in almost two months ... Nevada will return to the pool to host Seattle on Jan. 28.
New Mexico State Aggies (2-6)
The Aggies returned to the pool for the 2012 spring semester with a five-team meet in Tucson, Ariz. last Friday ... NM State fell to WAC foe Northern Arizona, 145-117, Oregon State, 157-105, Iowa, 160-102, and No. 5 Arizona, 188-71 ... freshman Jessica Legge garnered runner-up honors in the 200 individual medley, while sophomore Tricia Kiss followed in fourth place ... junior Beth Cate led Aggies with a second-place finish in the 100 butterfly ... the team of senior Rachelle Bassen, junior Haley Gansneder, senior Brittney Moore and freshman Victoria Palombit won the the 200-free relay ... this week, the Aggies are off ... NMSU returns to action on Jan. 21 in a conference dual vs. Idaho.
North Dakota Fighting Sioux (4-6)
In the final competitive event of its Florida training trip, North Dakota fell to Florida Gulf Coast 168-75, Georgia Tech 180-63 and Liberty 121-115 in a four-team dual ... the team picked up 10 individual and two relay top-five finishes, but were unable to tally a team win over the competition ... on the boards, senior Megan Keidel placed second on the 1-meter board with a mark of 245.55 and third on the 3-meter board with a score of 238.60 ... sophomore Morgan Lynch led the team with fourth-place finishes in the 1,000 free (1:32.94) and the 500 free (5:08.77) ... in its next action, UND will host South Dakota State on Friday, Jan. 27 and South Dakota the following day.
Northern Arizona Lumberjacks (6-5)
Northern Arizona went 1-3 at a five-team meet on Friday in Tuscon, Ariz. ... NAU defeated New Mexico State, 151-148, but fell to No. 5 Arizona, 201-96, Oregon State, 180-114, and Iowa, 181-113 ... junior Kristy Ardavanis won both the 1-meter and 3-meter events ... sophomore Emma Lowther took fourth in the 1000 freestyle with a season-best time of 10:23.21, the fastest time in the WAC this season ... sophomore Rachel Palmer placed fourth in the 100 butterfly at 57.76 and also placed fifth in the 200 fly ... the next action for NAU will be the team’s last before the WAC Championship ... NAU divers will compete at the Falcon Diving Invitational on Jan. 27-28, with the swimmers to race at Grand Canyon on Saturday, Jan. 28.
San Jose State Spartans (4-1)
San Jose State claimed a 119-87 dual meet win at CSU Bakersfield on Friday ... the Spartans won seven individual events, by seven different athletes, and also took first in the 200 medley relay ... freshman Haley Smith got her first career dual meet win Friday, taking the 200 backstroke in 2:11.38 ... Kiley Foster won the 100 free in 53.42 ... Meghan McCurley lowered her season-best in the 200 freestyle by nearly eight seconds ... Amy Friedhoff (1,000 freestyle; 10:37.93), Erika Harvey(50 freestyle, 24.60), Julia Craddock (400 individual medley, 4:31.60) and Heather Denman(200 butterfly, 2:07.92) also won events Friday for SJSU ... this week, SJSU travels to the University of San Diego Relay Meet on Friday.