11.11.2007

The UCSC men’s and women’s swim teams swam their first home meet of the season this past Saturday. Their meet with Division 1 University of Denver marked the first time these two teams met in the schools’ history. The women fell with a final score of 112-185, and the men were defeated 109-171.

Senior Erin Hunter earned an NCAA automatic qualifying time in the 400 IM with a time of 4:31.82. That time currently ranks her first in all of Division 3 swimming. Erin’s time of 2:11.65 was enough to place her first in the 200 butterfly as well. Other event winners for the Slugs were Stephanie Luu in the 100 backstroke (1:02.25), Kate O’niell in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.44), and Andra Steinbergs in the 50 freestyle (25.25).

On the men’s side, the 400 free relay team of Kenton Drake, Jamie Johnson, Troy Marcikic, and Ben Ferguson achieved a winning time of 3:14.35. Sophomore Ben Ferguson won the 100 freestyle coming in at 47.36. Senior sprinter Troy Marcikic finished off the sweep of the sprint freestyle events by winning the 50 freestyle with a time of 22.27.

Sophomore breaststroker Nolan Rogers stated that: “We had some really fast swims, and it was a good warm up for next weekend.” The slugs will head down to Long Beach on Wednesday to swim at Nike Cup.