Sixteen Swimmers Head to US Short Course Nationals
December 03, 2008 | Swimming & Diving
Dec. 3, 2008
Sixteen University of Louisville swimmers will be competing in different events at the 2008 ConocoPhillips Short Course National Championships, Dec. 4-6, at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center.
"Our goal is to swim fast and put together some fasts times for NCAA Qualifications. It is a great measuring stick for us to compete against the best swimmers in the country," said U of L head coach Arthur Albiero. "This is also a good mid-season evaluation of where we are training."
A full list of all participating Cardinal swimmers is listed below.
A full recap each day will be posted daily but live stats and live video can be found at the U.S. Swimming's official event page: www.usaswimming.org. Psych sheets and heat sheets as well as ticket information can be found there as well.
Action begins each day with preliminary heats at 9:30 a.m. The finals session gets underway each evening at 6:00 p.m.
On Thursday, Dec. 4, the 200-free relay, 500-free, 200-IM, 50-free and 400-medley relay events will be held.
On Friday, Dec. 5, the 200-medley relay, 400-IM, 100-fly, 200-free, 100-breast, 100-back and 800-free relay events will take place.
The final day of action includes the 1650-free, 200-back, 100-free, 200-breast, 200-fly and 400-free relay. There will also be a long course competition on Sunday.
The U of L women will be represented by Whitney Campbell, Therese Bergstrom, Amanda Henleben, Fanny Lilliestrom, Liz Halet, Raine Thompson and Anna Dishuck. The U of L men will be represented by Shane Lichtenberg, Carlos Van Isschot, Pedro Oliveira, Doug Dietrich, Brendon Andrews, Vali Preda, Adam Madarassy, Adam Isaacs and Rafal Kuchta.
