Swim team dominates home opener
The swim team had a clean sweep over the University of North Texas at the Rice Pool Sunday, winning all 11 events en route to a 133-70 dual-meet victory.
The Owls will take their perfect 2-0 dual-meet record into the Marriott West Loop-TYR Rice Invitational Nov. 4-5. The annual four-team meet will feature Arkansas, Oregon State and Villanova.
“We wanted to bring in teams that will make the meet a mystery, not teams that we know we will beat,” head coach Seth Huston said. “We’re bringing in teams that will challenge us.”
Huston said competing at home is just as crucial in swimming as in other team sports.
“We’ll be able to step up and be at our best while at home,” Huston said. “It will give us more focus. While we won’t be physically at our peak [early in the season], the home-meet advantage will allow us to peak emotionally.”
Huston said he feared the team would be unrested because of intense fall workouts.
“The biggest thing I was worried about is that we might come in a little flat, but I really didn’t see that,” Huston said.
Rice freshmen led the charge in Sunday’s home meet. Of the nine individual events, Rice freshmen won five of them. Carlyann Miller won the 100 and 1000 freestyles, winning the 100 by almost two seconds. Caitlin Warner won the 500 freestyle, Skylar Craig won the 100 butterfly and Keri Hyde won the 100 backstroke. Sophomore Carey Hain, who won the 200 freestyle, said the freshmen have adjusted well to college swimming.
“The freshmen really mesh well with our team,” Hain said. “They’ve been able to elevate the competition at practice.”
Senior Laura Healey maintained her dominance of the sprints with a win in the 50 freestyle in 24.67 seconds. Last week’s Conference USA Swimmer of the Week, sophomore Amy Halsey, continued her solid swimming with a win in the 400 individual medley. Junior Andrea Hurn came away with the win in the 100 breaststroke despite a career-best time from Halsey, who also competed in the event.
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