Swimming and Diving Opens at BIG EAST Championships
Allison Coleman captures One Meter Diving Crown

Results- Day 1

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (February 15, 2006) – The University of Connecticut men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams opened up competition Wednesday afternoon at the Nassau Aquatic Center.

The men’s team is in eighth place with 50 points, while the women’s team completed day one in fifth place with 68 points.

Sophomore Allison Coleman (New Canaan, Conn.) captured the title in the women’s one meter dive event with a score of 242.9.

Lisa Shelps (Quakertown, Pa.), Emily Karel (Bethesda, Md.), Danielle Sanders (Mississauga, Ontario) and Ryan Smith (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) teamed together in the women’s 800 freestyle relay to finish in fourth place with a time of 7:28.28.

Kristalynn Kempton (Glen Head, N.Y.) and Diane Duncheskie (Oreland, Pa.) joined Shelps and Smith in the 200 medley relay to secure a ninth place finish for the Huskies (1:47.15).

On the men’s side, the 800 freestyle relay saw a seventh place finish from Tristan Jones (Wanniassa, Australia), Michael Brocki (Westhampton, N.Y.), Jules Alexandre (Wallingford, Conn.) and Mike McNulty (Hartland, Wis.).

In the 200 medley relay, Jones combined with John Henry Dasinger (Madison, Miss.), Adrian Astiz (Bethesda, Md.) and Abed Kaaki (Ras Tarura, Saudi Arabia) for sixth place (1:31.88).

Competition will resume tomorrow with the preliminaries set to begin at 10:30 a.m. and the finals slated for 6:00 p.m.