Girls swimming: Killer Whales improve by 105 points at Charger Invite, Boyce sets pool and meet records

Gargoyle photo by Revathi Maturi (click to enlarge)Junior Lisa Boyce sets a pool and meet record in the 100-yard backstroke during Saturday's Centennial Charger Invitational. She also set a meet record in the 100 butterfly.

By Gargoyle Sports Staff
Published: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - 5:04pm

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CENTENNIAL CHARGER INVITATIONAL AT A GLANCE

When & Where: Saturday, Sept. 20, Unit 4 Pool, Champaign Centennial

Result: Uni placed 9th out of 13 teams

Record in Dual Meets: 2-0

Summary: Lisa Boyce set a pool record in the 100-yard backstroke and a meet record in the 100 butterfly as the Uni girls improved by more than 100 points over last year's Charger Invite. The ninth-place team finish was two places better than Urbana's. Ninety percent of Uni times were season bests.

Next Meet: Home meet at Freer Pool on Saturday, Sept. 27, against O'Fallon and Charleston

CHAMPAIGN — Junior Lisa Boyce's first-place finishes with a meet record in the 100-yard butterfly and pool and meet records in the 100 backstroke bumped Uni up to a ninth-place finish in the 13-team Centennial Charger Invite on Saturday.

Uni's 143-point finish marked a significant increase from last year's 13th-place performance of 38 points. Even more notably, the Killer Whales finished 40 points ahead of Urbana High School despite Uni's lack of divers.

Besides Boyce's total of 40 points in her two individual events, she also helped rack up team points and shave off seconds in the 200 medley relay and 200 freestyle relay of Boyce, juniors Erika Belmont and Sian Best, and freshman Milee Nelson, both of which were team bests.

These faster times led to a third-place finish in the medley relay, and a victory over Centennial in the freestyle relay.

Other point getters included Nelson with 14 points, Belmont with five, and Best with one.

The team as a whole recorded 90-percent season-best times and 80-percent personal-best times, even with limited deck space and a crowded warm-up area.

Boyce's time of 57.88 seconds in the 100 butterfly broke former Centennial swimmer Payton Johnson's meet record of 58.97 set in 2001.

Her time of 57.75 in the 100 backstroke outdid former Centennial swimmer Alison Gschwend's meet record of 58.77 (2003) and pool record of 57.88 (2004).

The girls will swim again in a home meet at Freer Pool this Saturday at 1 p.m. against O'Fallon and Charleston.

Note: For a complete list of Charger Invite times, see the results at head coach Howie Schein's Web site.

Team Result: Ninth out of 13 teams

Best Uni Times

200-Yard Medley Relay: Lisa Boyce/Erika Belmont/Sian Best/Milee Nelson (1:57.67), 3rd
200 Freestyle: Milee Nelson (2:04.53), 5th
200 Individual Medley: Deborah Ladd (2:43.62), 29th
50 Freestyle: Maritza Mestre (:28.91), 25th
100 Butterfly: Lisa Boyce (:57.88 – meet record), 1st
100 Freestyle: Erika Belmont (1:02.10), 21st
500 Freestyle: Amalia Dolan (6:29.28), 22nd
200 Freestyle Relay: Nelson/Belmont/Best/Boyce (1:46.73), 5th
100 Backstroke: Lisa Boyce ( :57.75 – meet and pool record), 1st
100 Breaststroke: Erika Belmont (1:17.26), 12th
400 Freestyle Relay: Isaure Hostetter/Aishwarya Gautam/Maia Gersten/Kahlilah Cooke (5:42.27), 12th

Final Team Standings

Lincoln-Way East, 322
Champaign Central, 313.50
Galesburg, 251
Centennial, 230
Hinsdale South, 224
Normal Community, 171.50
Buffalo Grove, 167
Danville, 158
UNI HIGH, 143
Bloomington, 112
Urbana, 103
Normal West, 70
Charleston, 16

Links:

OG Scoreboard: Centennial Charger Invitational

Head coach Howie Schein's Web site

Comments

September 24, 2008 - 1:36pm — Jake (not verified)

broke the pool?

How did Boyce break the pool? It's a good thing she broke the meet records as well or I bet people would have been pretty mad.

September 24, 2008 - 5:22pm — David Porreca (dporreca)

That would have been a problem

Jake, I was thinking the same thing, but the original was OK because of "and." It would have been really awkward if the standard headline substitute for "and" had been used — a comma. That would have given us: "Boyce breaks pool, meet records." Still, notice the slight change — "sets" instead of "breaks." Even that probably sounds strange to readers not familiar with sports jargon.

September 25, 2008 - 10:23am — Jake (not verified)

Ambiguity

Just marveling at the ambiguity. Recently the N-G ran a headline: "Judah Christian Plans Hit Snag", and I wondered why anyone would plan something like that.