TicketsFeb. 17, 2009
CHAMPIONSHIP CENTRAL | Psych Sheets | Live Scoreboard Feed
The University of Cincinnati swimming and diving teams head to Indianapolis, Ind. on Wednesday for the BIG EAST Men's and Women's Swimming & Diving Championships, which run through Feb. 21. The league meet will be held at the IU Natatorium on the campus of IUPUI for the first time. The past 10 championships were held at East Meadow, N.Y., in the Nassau County Aquatic Center.
Diving preliminaries kick things off at noon on Wednesday with relays set for a 6 p.m. start. Prelims begin at 10 a.m. Thursday-Saturday with finals hitting the pool at 6 p.m. each day. Only swimmers who met the conference standards qualified for competition in Indianapolis.
A pair of swimmers, Jeremy Peter, and Josh Schneider, are defending league champions in the 200 IM, and 50 freestyle, respectively. Entering the meet, Peter is the No. 4 seed in the event with a season-best clocking of 1:49.66. He also ranks in the top five in the 200 breaststroke (4th/2:00.38) and is seeded eighth in the 100 backstroke (50.22) Schneider is the top seed in the 50 freestyle (19.38), ranked No. 2 in the 100 freestyle event (43.48), and fourth in the 100 butterfly (48.64).
Jakub Carda holds the No. 2 seed in the 400 IM with his season-best time of 3:56.20.
BIG EAST Web Coverage/Live Streaming
The BIG EAST Conference will be expanding its Web site coverage and streaming production of the 2009 Swimming & Diving Championships. For the first time, a live play-by-play announcer and multiple cameras (including an underwater camera) will be available to help bring users even closer to the action than ever before.
Fans can subscribe to BIGEAST.tv for one low price to catch all of the action from the comfort of their home computer. There are flexible subscription options available:
- Purchase a Swimming & Diving sport-specific package for a one-time price of $9.95. This allows users full access only for the championship to which they have subscribed.
- Gain an all-access pass to all premium BIGEAST.tv content (all sports) for 30 days with a recurring monthly subscription of $9.95/month.
- Get the best value by subscribing to an annual subscription, which gives fans access to all BIGEAST.tv content for the entire 2008-09 season for $79.95.
To start the seamless registration process, visit BIGEAST.tv and click "sign-up".
For all of the BIG EAST's coverage of the Swimming & Diving Championships, visit the 2009 Championship Central page at BIGEAST.org. Championship Central will contain a live scoreboard feed and results, photo galleries, recaps and will house all video archives.