Conference USA Championships-Day 1 Results

The conclusion of the first day of the 2007 Conference USA Swimming and Diving Championships saw three teams turn in some good performances, one team missing a chance to swim, and another waiting to compete in their first race.

In the first event of the day, East Carolina University's backstroker Alli Miller was called for a false start, and as a result saw their 200 medley relay disqualified.

The race saw SMU win the race with a time of 1:41.03, breaking the pool record and making the NCAA "B" cut. Rice followed with a 1:43.77, followed by Houston at 1:44.57.

The Cougars time of 1:44.57 was the second best time in school history.

All the results were unofficial, as Marshall University, who was unable to get to Houston until 4:30pm, due to travel problems resulting from the massive snow storms in the eastern United States.

As a result of their late arrival, the coaches of the Conference USA schools decided to allow Marshall to swim their 200 medley relay after the preliminaries during one of the next few days.

Marshall’s time will then be added to the unofficial results and the results scored accordingly.

In the 800 yard freestyle relay, SMU blasted to first place wit ht he time of 7:10.41, breaking the meet and pool record, along with making the NCAA "A" cut.

Their splits were 1:46.76-1:46.19-1:49.00-1:48.46.

They were followed by Rice with the time of 7:25.79 (splits: 1:52.38-1:48.56-1:51.85-1:53.00)

Houston finished in third place with the time of 7:29.66 (splits: 1:50.53-1:52.85-1:52.78-1:53.50) and East Carolina in fourth place with the time of 7:32.87 (splits: 1:51.93-1:54.45-1:53.86-1:52.63).

Action will resume on Thursday at 10:00am with the preliminaries of the 500 yard freestyle, 200 yard individual medley, 50 yard freestyle, and 1 meter diving.