PROVO -- In their first meet in more than four weeks, the BYU women's swim team fell to Oregon State University from the Pac-10 on Saturday by a score of 131-106.
The Beavers' roster boasted two athletes who have already qualified for the NCAA Championships in Naya Higashijima, and Birte Steven. Despite the stiff competition, the Cougars swam evenly with the Beavers for most of the meet.
"I thought we had a chance to win," said women's head coach Stan Crump. "We were a little slow in spots and we were fast in other spots."
The Cougars started out the meet by taking the second and third place spots in the 200-medley relay. BYU failed to place in the 1000 free, but followed that up by claiming the second and third-place finishes in the 200 free.
In her first meet this season, senior All-American Cortnee Adams took the 50 and 100 free events with scores of 23.81 and 52.03 respectively. Adams times bested the competition by more than a full second in each event.
Due to sickness that seems to be circulating the team, the Cougars were forced to make changes in the line-up that took some swimmers out of their strongest events.
"We had no true 200 free swimmers which caused us to make some changes that ended up hurting us in the 200 fly," said Crump.
Crump and the rest of the Cougars are optimistic about the remaining meets and feel confident that the team will be ready for the conference championships in February.
The Cougars' next opponent is Colorado State next week in Ft. Collins.
"The girls raced well today," said Crump. "CSU is a big meet."
The meet gets underway at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17.
BYU vs Oregon State - 1/11/03
Results
Event 1 Women 200 Yard Medley Relay
TeamRelayFinals Time
1OSU A 1:47.63
2BYU A 1:49.05
Burrows, NicholeGrant, Amanda
Juvan, LyndiAdams, Cortnee
28.3030.3126.9723.47
3BYU B 1:50.74
Schlup, NatashaCovington, Tamber
Merrell, AubreyLambert, Jamie
28.5730.0327.4824.66
4OSU B 1:54.27
5BYU C x1:56.19
Bates, NikkiGrant, Melanie
Mann, AmberEgan, Kristi
30.4531.9727.8525.92
Event 2 Women 1000 Yard Free
Name TeamFinals Time
1Higashijima, NayaOSU10:36.64
2Kuhlmey, Kristi OSU10:39.75
3Kinney, Danielle OSU10:57.82
4McClellan, Amy BYU11:02.32
5McMinn, Jillian OSUx11:03.63
6Garrick, Amy BYU11:19.81
7Mason, Rachel BYU11:28.97
Event 3 Women 200 Yard Free
Name TeamFinals Time
1Steven, Birte OSU1:54.01
2Grant, Amanda BYU1:56.14
3Ferrell, Monica BYU1:57.41
4Kinney, ChristinaOSU1:59.08
5Hong, Jessie OSU2:00.02
6Pederson, Becky BYU2:00.33
7Schlup, Natasha BYUx2:03.07
8Svoboda, Leanne OSUx2:04.49
---Wohlford, SarahBYUX
Event 4 Women 50 Yard Free
Name TeamFinals Time
1Adams, Cortnee BYU23.81
2Huston, Kristin OSU24.57
3Burrows, Nichole BYU24.69
4Starkey, Suzanne OSU25.10
5Pacebutaite, AusraOSU25.26
6Rappleye, Kathryn BYU25.32
7Lambert, Jamie BYUx25.43
8Foree, Lynsey OSUx26.81
---Wohlford, Sarah BYUX27.48
Event 5 Women 400 Yard IM
Name TeamFinals Time
1Miroslaw, Monika OSU4:34.20
2Covington, Tamber BYU4:37.93
3Schaab, Leah OSU4:39.30
4Emberston, Mari OSU4:43.25
5Nelson, Julie BYU4:47.33
6Egan, Kristi BYU4:48.28
7VanDenBurghe, DianeBYUx4:53.48
Event 6 Women 1 mtr Diving
Name TeamFinals Score
1Low, Aubrey BYU 224.63
2Routsong, RachelleBYU 207.22
3Morrow, Tina BYU 187.72
4Campbell, Ashley BYU x176.25
5Dahl, Tessa BYU x167.68
Event 7 Women 200 Yard Fly
Name TeamFinals Time
1Higashijima, NayaOSU2:06.44
2Miroslaw, MonikaOSU2:08.59
3Kinney, ChristinaOSU2:12.39
4Majaj, HanaBYU2:15.63
5Merrell, AubreyBYU2:16.09
6McMinn, JillianOSUx2:17.92
7Juvan, LyndiBYU2:18.58
8Mann, AmberBYUx2:20.98
Event 8 Women 100 Yard Free
Name TeamFinals Time
1Adams, Cortnee BYU52.03
2Huston, Kristin OSU53.64
3Finlay, Paula OSU54.50
4Bloom, Shannon BYU54.66
5Pederson, Becky BYU55.39
6Rappleye, KathrynBYUx55.49
7Keown, Chelsea OSU57.79
8Svoboda, Leanne OSUx58.60
Event 9 Women 200 Yard Back
Name TeamFinals Time
1Pacebutaite, AusraOSU2:05.90
2Schlup, Natasha BYU2:07.38
3Burrows, Nichole BYU2:09.41
4McClellan, Amy BYU2:11.95
5Thomas, Ashleigh OSU2:14.46
6Hong, Jessie OSU2:15.58
7Bates, Nikki BYUx2:19.14
---Wohlford, Sarah BYUX2:20.31
---Kemp, Melissa BYUX2:21.69
Event 10 Women 500 Yard Free
Name TeamFinals Time
1Higashijima, Naya OSU5:10.34
2Kuhlmey, Kristi OSU5:12.79
3Ferrell, Monica BYU5:13.26
4Kinney, Danielle OSU5:17.80
5Nelson, Julie BYU5:23.13
6Garrick, Amy BYU5:29.73
7VanDenBurghe, DianeBYUx5:36.32
Event 11 Women 3 mtr Diving
Name TeamFinals Score
1Routsong, RachelleBYU233.48
2Low, Aubrey BYU233.25
3Morrow, Tina BYU201.30
4Dahl, Tessa BYUx184.80
5Campbell, Ashley BYUx151.43
Event 12 Women 200 Yard Breast
Name TeamFinals Time
1Steven, Birte OSU2:17.19
2Covington, TamberBYU2:19.87
3Finlay, Paula OSU2:21.46
4Grant, Amanda BYU2:23.45
5Grant, Melanie BYU2:26.29
6Emberston, Mari OSU2:28.29
7Lambert, Jamie BYUx2:29.47
8Schaab, Leah OSUx2:30.21
Event 12A Women 100 Yard Breast
Name TeamFinals Time
---Predium, Laura KayBYUX1:09.77
---Kemp, Melissa BYUX1:15.70
---Wohlford, Sarah BYUX1:16.99
Event 13 Women 400 Yard Free Relay
TeamRelayFinals Time
1OSU A 3:35.54
2BYU A 3:35.93
Bloom, ShannonFerrell, Monica
Pederson, BeckyRappleye, Kathryn
26.4729.0125.9427.81
26.1228.2924.9527.34
3BYU B 3:47.24
Bates, NikkiNelson, Julie
Egan, KristiMcClellan, Amy
27.6529.4027.4129.25
26.8730.2226.7029.74
4BYU C x3:51.09
Garrick, AmyMann, Amber
VanDenBurghe, DianePredium, Laura Kay
28.9030.3827.9030.10
27.1329.7126.5430.43
---OSUBDQ