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HOUSTON - The University of Cincinnati swimming and diving team picked up four medals and broke three school records on the opening day of the 2017 American Athletic Conference Championship on Wednesday evening at the Campus & Wellness Recreation Center Natatorium on the campus of the University of Houston. The Bearcats kick started the meet with a gold in the women's 800 freestyle relay and also earned a silver in the men's 3 meter diving and a pair of bronze medals in the women's and men's 200 medley relays.
// COMMONS-DISALLE's COMMENTS
"We had an outstanding start to the meet today" said head coach Mandy Commons-DiSalle. "We broke three school records on Day 1 and won our first American championship relay. We need to keep this momentum going into tomorrow's prelim session to be able to put together another great day."
// WOMEN'S 800 FREESTYLE RELAY
Cincinnati earned its first-ever relay victory at The American Championship when the women's 800 freestyle relay team of junior Sara Wanasek (Burlington, Wis./Burlington, freshman Michaela Wheeler (Loami, Ill./Home-School), freshman Rocky Laabs (Hartland, Wis./Arrowhead) and senior Jacqueline Keire (Burlington, Ontario/Nelson) took gold in 7:10.07. The time beat the previous school record, which was set at last year's conference meet, by over four seconds. It is the first-career conference win for Wanasek, Wheeler and Laabs and the ninth for Keire.
// MEN'S 3M DIVING
Sophomore Louis Hunt (Lakeside Park, Ky./Covington Catholic), the 2016 American champion in the men's platform diving competition, dazzled in the men's 3M diving event on Wednesday, scoring a 320.30 to earn a silver medal. The mark was good for his second NCAA Zone qualifying score of the season and the second-highest score of his career on the 3M board.
// WOMEN'S 200 MEDLEY RELAY
Cincinnati picked up a bronze medal in the women's 200 medley relay when junior Lindsey Niehaus (Cincinnati, Ohio/Seton), junior Kennedy Herbert (Green, Ohio/Green), sophomore Katherine Gob (Louisville, Ky./Ballard) and Wheeler finished in a time of 1:41.25. The mark just beat out the seven-year-old program record of 1:41.67 which was set back in 2010.
// MEN'S 200 MEDLEY RELAY
The men's team earned their second podium of the night when junior Eitan Holder (Caracas, Venezuela/Aviv (Isreal), senior Ludovico Corsini (Milan, Italy/Giulio Casiraghi), freshman John Mataxas (Savannah, Ga./H.V. Jenkins) and senior Connor Davis (Cincinnati, Ohio/Anderson) touched in a bronze-medal-winning time of 1:29.05.
// MEN's 800 FREESTYLE RELAY
While not placing in the top-three, Holder, freshman Din Selmanovic (Mississauga, Ontario/Cawthra), Davis and junior Chris Bready (Missouri City, Texas/Lawrence E. Elkins) finished the men's 800 freestyle relay in a time of 6:30.84. The mark smashed the previous school record of 6:53.56 be nearly 24 seconds.
// TEAM STANDINGS
Women's Scores (through 3 of 21 events)
- UConn 118
- Houston 104
- East Carolina 90
- SMU 84
- Cincinnati 82
- Tulane 56
Men's Scores (through 3 of 21 events)
- East Carolina 114
- UConn 105
- Cincinnati 101
- SMU 92
// DAY 2 ORDER OF EVENTS
Thursday, February 16
SESSION 2 - 10 a.m. CT (Swimming Preliminaries); 12:30 p.m. CT (Diving Preliminaries)
SESSION 3 - 6 p.m. CT (Finals) - Streamed live on the American Digital Network
Event 7 Men's 1 Meter Diving (PRELIMINARIES)
Event 7 Men's 1 Meter Diving (CONSOLATION)
Event 8 Women's 500 Yard Freestyle
Event 9 Men's 500 Yard Freestyle
Event 10 Women's 200 Individual Medley
Event 11 Men's 200 Individual Medley
Event 12 Women's 50 Yard Freestyle
Event 13 Men's 50 Yard Freestyle
Event 7 Men's 1 Meter Diving (FINAL)
Event 14 Women's 200 Yard Freestyle Relay
Event 15 Men's 200 Yard Freestyle Rela