Swimming and Diving Open Competition at Conference USA Championships
February 23, 2005 | Swimming & Diving
Feb. 23, 2005
For the second consecutive season, the University of Houston will host the 2005 Conference USA Women's Swimming and Diving Championship and Men's Invitational. The four-day event, which begins on Wednesday afternoon, will be held at the Campus Recreation & Wellness Center Natatorium on the UH campus. A year ago, Houston became the first Conference USA school to host the league's annual meet at an on-site facility after the first two championships were conducted in Indianapolis, Ind. Competing in this year's meet will be Cincinnati, East Carolina, Houston, Louisville Saint Louis, TCU and Tulane.
U of L's Heather Meng and Kleber Ihara return to defend their titles of a year ago. Meng was the conference champion in the 200-breast and Ihara won the 200-fly. Sean Wilkinson, who was Diver of the Meet last year, has graduated.
Last year, TCU swept the event titles as the Horned Frog men earned the Men's Invitational championship and the school's women took home C-USA Women's Swimming and Diving Championship honors. That was the first time a school's men's and women's tandem won in the same year. To date, no women's team in Conference USA history has won two straight titles.
The meet begins at 1 p.m., Wednesday with the preliminaries of the men's 1-meter diving. The finals begin at 6 p.m. with the 200-yard freestyle relay, 1-meter diving and 800-yard freestyle relay. Swimming action kicks into full gear at 10 a.m., Thursday with the preliminaries for the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley and the 50-yard freestyle. The 3-meter women's diving preliminaries will begin around 1 p.m., Thursday with the finals of the 500-yard freestyle, 200-yard individual medley, 50-yard freestyle, women's 3-meter diving and 400-yard medley relay slated to begin at 6 p.m.
