Cougars take it to Rebel Swimmers

PROVO, Utah (Nov.9, 2007) -- Both the BYU men and women swimmers out swam UNLV on Friday night at the Richards Building Pool. The Cougar men beat the No. 21 ranked Rebels 185-114, while the BYU women came out on top of the UNLV women 173-127.

"Our guys swam really well tonight," BYU men's coach Tim Powers said. "If there was any question about our team's strength in the conference, I feel we answered those questions tonight."

The Cougar men won both of the relays on the evening. The four-man relay team in the 200-yard medley had the winning time with a 1:30.72. In the 400 freestyle relay, the Cougars touched the wall first recording a time of 3:02.92.

On the women's side, a strong personal performance from freshman Rachel Grant helped boost the Cougars to victory. Grant won three events in the meet, including the 100 and 200 butterfly, and the 200 individual medley-- the 100 fly and 200 IM coming in back-to-back races. Grant's winning time in the 200 fly of 2:01.86 is a new Richards Building Pool record and BYU school record.

"The biggest difference in our team's victory was Rachel Grant and our divers," BYU women's coach Stan Crump said. "UNLV is a very, very good team. They did a great job coming here to swim against us, especially when you consider the change in elevation they had to go through."

The BYU women's divers took first and second at both board heights. In the 1-meter sophomore Tawni Jones took first with a score of 265.25, while in the 3-meter event sophomore Ava Jackman had the best mark with a 290.00. The men's Cougar divers also swept the first-place honors as Drew Moulton and Bryce Engstrom finished atop the podium in the 1-meter and 3-meters, respectively.

The Cougars' next action will be at the Nike Cup on Nov. 15-17 in Long Beach, Calif.

Women - Team Scores
	Place	School	Points
	1	BYU SWIMMING	BYU	173
	2	UNLV	UNLV	127
	Total	300.00
Men - Team Scores
	Place	School	Points
	1	BYU SWIMMING	BYU	185	.	50
	2	UNLV	UNLV	114	.	50
	Total	300.00
Event 1  Women 200 Yard Medley Relay
	Team	Relay	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	UNLV	    A	NT	1:45.68	11
	1) Weinbrecht, Amanda	2) Bonney, Kim	3) Sandback, Marina	4) Hunt-Higgins, Megan
	2	BYU SWIMMING	    A	1:42.53	1:46.31	4
	1) Christiansen, Sara Jayne	2) Bloom, Jamie	3) Price, Angela	4) Miller, Aleesha
	3	UNLV	    B	NT	1:48.60	2
	1) Gillespie, Lisa	2) Kuestermeyer, Bailey	3) Neff, Jenna	4) Rousell, Madison
	4	BYU SWIMMING	    B	NT	1:48.70
	1) Roberts, Leilani	2) Stacey, Johanna	3) Grant, Rachel	4) Ferrell, Kirsty
	5	BYU SWIMMING	    C	NT	x1:54.44
	1) Moyes, Karen	2) Marriott, Julia	3) Livengood, Elise	4) Crist, Samantha
Event 2  Men 200 Yard Medley Relay
	Team	Relay	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	BYU SWIMMING	    A	NT	1:30.72	11
	1) Jacobson, Jacoby	2) Mason, David	3) Azevedo, Jorge	4) Merrell, Andrew
	2	UNLV	    A	NT	1:32.36	4
	1) Phillips, Devin	2) Andersson, Jonas	3) Lorring, Peter	4) Hortness, Richard
	3	BYU SWIMMING	    B	NT	1:34.31	2
	1) Ferrell, John	2) Wells, Brady	3) Henderson, Blake	4) Greiner, Gregor
	4	UNLV	    B	NT	1:34.77
	1) Christian, Timothy	2) Bosnyak, Tamas	3) Seiler, David	4) Andolfsson, Thomas
Event 3  Women 1000 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Menezes, Natasha	BYU SWIMMING	10:08.15	10:27.50	9
	2	Chan, U-Nice	BYU SWIMMING	10:19.69	10:33.28	4
	3	McHenry, Celleigh	BYU SWIMMING	10:25.13	10:33.55	3
	4	Dangalakova, Ana	UNLV	NT	10:37.97	2
	5	Sreibers, Lara	UNLV	NT	10:44.24	1
Event 4  Men 1000 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Maitland, Kier	UNLV	NT	9:28.34	9
	2	Mendoza, John	UNLV	NT	9:41.02	4
	3	Anderson, Zach	BYU SWIMMING	NT	9:43.98	3
	4	Bates, Samuel	BYU SWIMMING	NT	9:45.28	2
	5	Ferrell, Jeff	BYU SWIMMING	NT	9:58.99	1
	6	Blank, Nicholas	UNLV	NT	10:02.99
	7	Goodfellow, Jacob	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x10:25.3
Event 5  Women 200 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Menezes, Michelle	BYU SWIMMING	1:54.53	1:52.85	9
	2	Harpak, Marva	UNLV	NT	1:53.02	4
	3	Roberts, Leilani	BYU SWIMMING	1:48.78	1:53.73	3
	4	Crowley, Bridget	UNLV	NT	1:56.54	2
	5	Nettenstrom, Kari	UNLV	NT	1:57.18	1
	6	Smith, Carly	BYU SWIMMING	1:55.85	1:57.38
	7	Plantaric, Samantha	UNLV	NT	x1:57.71
Event 6  Men 200 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Claar, Johan	UNLV	NT	1:40.28	9
	2	Price, Travis	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:41.40	4
	3	Hamilton, Neal	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:41.59	3
	4	Clark, Kenny	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:42.43	2
	5	Hofstedt, Daniel	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x1:44.35
	6	Egmar, Magnus	UNLV	NT	1:46.47	1
	7	Nelson, Lee	UNLV	NT	1:48.95
Event 7  Women 100 Yard Backstroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Weinbrecht, Amanda	UNLV	NT	57.47	9
	2	Hunt-Higgins, Megan	UNLV	NT	58.08	4
	3	Gillespie, Lisa	UNLV	NT	58.09	3
	4	Christiansen, Sara Jayne	BYU SWIMMING	58.79	58.72	2
	5	Price, Angela	BYU SWIMMING	57.87	59.21	1
	6	Moyes, Karen	BYU SWIMMING	1:04.00	1:03.04
Event 8  Men 100 Yard Backstroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Azevedo, Jorge	BYU SWIMMING	NT	50.48	9
	2	Phillips, Devin	UNLV	NT	51.18	4
	3	Jacobson, Jacoby	BYU SWIMMING	NT	51.36	3
	4	Christian, Timothy	UNLV	NT	51.39	2
	5	Ferrell, John	BYU SWIMMING	NT	52.58	1
	6	Lorring, Peter	UNLV	NT	54.19
	7	Ellingsen, Michael	UNLV	NT	x54.21
Event 9  Women 100 Yard Breaststroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Bonney, Kim	UNLV	NT	1:04.33	9
	2	Bloom, Jamie	BYU SWIMMING	1:03.28	1:04.63	4
	3	Clarke, Kelsey	UNLV	NT	1:06.38	3
	4	Graham, Alexa	UNLV	NT	1:07.23	2
	5	Stacey, Johanna	BYU SWIMMING	1:07.10	1:07.48	1
	6	Marriott, Julia	BYU SWIMMING	1:11.16	1:09.58
Event 10  Men 100 Yard Breaststroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Andersson, Jonas	UNLV	NT	56.93	9
	2	Slenys, Vytenis	BYU SWIMMING	NT	57.07	4
	3	Mason, David	BYU SWIMMING	NT	58.13	3
	4	Bosnyak, Tamas	UNLV	NT	58.26	2
	5	Morin, Justin	BYU SWIMMING	NT	59.08	1
	6	Wells, Brady	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x59.18
	---	Grant, Bradley	BYU SWIMMING	NT	X59.03
	---	Duffin, Avery	BYU SWIMMING	NT	X59.83
Event 11  Women 200 Yard Butterfly
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Grant, Rachel	BYU SWIMMING	2:03.24	2:01.86	9
(Event 11  Women 200 Yard Butterfly)
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	2	Livengood, Elise	BYU SWIMMING	2:06.48	2:10.07	4
	3	Kuestermeyer, Bailey	UNLV	NT	2:10.41	3
	4	Neff, Jenna	UNLV	NT	2:12.21	2
	5	Chan, U-Nice	BYU SWIMMING	2:03.47	2:14.81	1
Event 12  Men 200 Yard Butterfly
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Su, Jeffrey	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:50.23	9
	2	Claar, Johan	UNLV	NT	1:52.48	4
	*3	Seiler, David	UNLV	NT	1:52.65	2	.	50
	*3	Broadbent, Douglas	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:52.65	2	.	50
	5	Egly, Daniel	UNLV	NT	1:56.57	1
Event 13  Women 50 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Miller, Aleesha	BYU SWIMMING	23.50	23.65	9
	2	Sandback, Marina	UNLV	NT	23.94	4
	3	Ferrell, Kirsty	BYU SWIMMING	23.46	24.37	3
	4	Rousell, Madison	UNLV	NT	24.59	2
	5	Cirulis, Chanel	UNLV	NT	25.11	1
	6	Clark, Megan	UNLV	NT	x25.12
	7	Crist, Samantha	BYU SWIMMING	25.15	25.24
	8	Yocom, Audra	BYU SWIMMING	26.54	x25.91
Event 14  Men 50 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Merrell, Andrew	BYU SWIMMING	NT	20.81	9
	2	Hortness, Richard	UNLV	NT	21.01	4
	3	Greiner, Gregor	BYU SWIMMING	NT	21.06	3
	4	Henderson, Blake	BYU SWIMMING	NT	21.37	2
	5	Andolfsson, Thomas	UNLV	NT	21.88	1
	6	Merrill, Mike	UNLV	NT	21.93
	7	Eldridge, Calan	UNLV	NT	x22.04
Event 15  Women 1 mtr Diving
	Name	School	Finals Score	Points
	1	Jones, Tawni	BYU SWIMMING	NT	265.25	9
	2	Jackman, Ava	BYU SWIMMING	NT	264.75	4
	3	Williams, Wendy	UNLV	NT	237.15	3
	4	Woods, Emily	BYU SWIMMING	NT	223.20	2
	5	Bowen, Tricia	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x220.45
	6	Kelly, Caitlin	UNLV	NT	216.65	1
	7	Chang, Kimberly	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x206.75
	8	Malmrose, Holly	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x160.15
Event 16  Men 1 mtr Diving
	Name	School	Finals Score	Points
	1	Moulton, Drew	BYU SWIMMING	NT	245.70	9
	2	Engstrom, Bryce	BYU SWIMMING	NT	245.15	4
	3	Arb, Matt	UNLV	NT	240.15	3
	4	Tanimoto, Eli	UNLV	NT	237.20	2
(Event 16  Men 1 mtr Diving)
	Name	School	Finals Score	Points
	5	English, Vincent	UNLV	NT	217.15	1
Event 17  Women 100 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Miller, Aleesha	BYU SWIMMING	51.41	52.26	9
	2	Roberts, Leilani	BYU SWIMMING	50.22	52.56	4
	3	Hunt-Higgins, Megan	UNLV	NT	52.77	3
	4	Ferrell, Kirsty	BYU SWIMMING	NT	53.15	2
	5	Crowley, Bridget	UNLV	NT	53.25	1
	6	Menezes, Natasha	BYU SWIMMING	52.11	x53.44
	7	Harpak, Marva	UNLV	NT	53.88
	8	Plantaric, Samantha	UNLV	NT	x54.66
Event 18  Men 100 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Su, Jeffrey	BYU SWIMMING	NT	45.38	9
	2	Clark, Kenny	BYU SWIMMING	NT	46.19	4
	3	Greiner, Gregor	BYU SWIMMING	NT	46.46	3
	4	Hortness, Richard	UNLV	NT	47.05	2
	5	Hofstedt, Daniel	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x47.37
	6	Eldridge, Calan	UNLV	NT	48.16	1
	7	Merrill, Mike	UNLV	NT	48.55
	8	Andolfsson, Thomas	UNLV	NT	x49.38
Event 19  Women 200 Yard Backstroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Gillespie, Lisa	UNLV	NT	2:02.72	9
	2	Weinbrecht, Amanda	UNLV	NT	2:04.27	4
	3	Dangalakova, Ana	UNLV	NT	2:04.90	3
	4	Patience, Tara	BYU SWIMMING	2:07.20	2:06.72	2
	5	McHenry, Celleigh	BYU SWIMMING	2:05.44	2:09.98	1
	6	Christiansen, Sara Jayne	BYU SWIMMING	2:08.30	2:10.19
	7	Moyes, Karen	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x2:23.50
Event 20  Men 200 Yard Backstroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Jacobson, Jacoby	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:52.15	9
	2	Blank, Nicholas	UNLV	NT	1:52.70	4
	3	Ferrell, John	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:53.27	3
	4	Christian, Timothy	UNLV	NT	1:53.35	2
	5	Ferrell, Jeff	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:56.58	1
	6	Ellingsen, Michael	UNLV	NT	1:56.94
Event 21  Women 200 Yard Breaststroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Bonney, Kim	UNLV	NT	2:18.73	9
	2	Bloom, Jamie	BYU SWIMMING	2:15.33	2:19.90	4
	3	Kuestermeyer, Bailey	UNLV	NT	2:20.20	3
	4	Clarke, Kelsey	UNLV	NT	2:23.11	2
	5	Graham, Alexa	UNLV	NT	x2:24.92
	6	Stacey, Johanna	BYU SWIMMING	2:25.88	2:30.36	1
(Event 21  Women 200 Yard Breaststroke)
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	7	Marriott, Julia	BYU SWIMMING	NT	2:30.99
	8	Smith, Carly	BYU SWIMMING	2:28.21	x2:31.42
Event 22  Men 200 Yard Breaststroke
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Rutherfurd, Andrew	BYU SWIMMING	NT	2:06.32	9
	2	Phillips, Devin	UNLV	NT	2:06.75	4
	3	Slenys, Vytenis	BYU SWIMMING	NT	2:08.57	3
	4	Morin, Justin	BYU SWIMMING	NT	2:10.47	2
	5	Bosnyak, Tamas	UNLV	NT	2:10.96	1
	6	Wells, Brady	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x2:11.75
	7	Duffin, Avery	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x2:14.12
	8	Grant, Bradley	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x2:16.60
	9	Nelson, Lee	UNLV	NT	2:21.00
Event 23  Women 500 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Menezes, Michelle	BYU SWIMMING	5:01.66	5:05.18	9
	2	Menezes, Natasha	BYU SWIMMING	NT	5:06.05	4
	3	Harpak, Marva	UNLV	NT	5:08.04	3
	4	Sreibers, Lara	UNLV	NT	5:12.47	2
	5	Chan, U-Nice	BYU SWIMMING	4:58.37	5:14.85	1
	6	Livengood, Elise	BYU SWIMMING	5:06.77	x5:15.37
	7	Nettenstrom, Kari	UNLV	NT	5:16.98
Event 24  Men 500 Yard Freestyle
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Claar, Johan	UNLV	NT	4:35.44	9
	2	Maitland, Kier	UNLV	NT	4:38.29	4
	3	Price, Travis	BYU SWIMMING	NT	4:38.30	3
	4	Anderson, Zach	BYU SWIMMING	NT	4:41.57	2
	5	Mendoza, John	UNLV	NT	4:42.32	1
	6	Bates, Samuel	BYU SWIMMING	NT	4:44.43
	7	Goodfellow, Jacob	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x5:00.70
Event 25  Women 100 Yard Butterfly
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Grant, Rachel	BYU SWIMMING	56.97	56.83	9
	2	Sandback, Marina	UNLV	NT	57.13	4
	3	Price, Angela	BYU SWIMMING	53.26	57.60	3
	4	Weinbrecht, Amanda	UNLV	NT	57.76	2
	5	Neff, Jenna	UNLV	NT	57.98	1
	6	McHenry, Celleigh	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:04.06
Event 26  Men 100 Yard Butterfly
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Azevedo, Jorge	BYU SWIMMING	NT	48.85	9
	2	Su, Jeffrey	BYU SWIMMING	NT	50.71	4
	3	Henderson, Blake	BYU SWIMMING	NT	50.80	3
	4	Seiler, David	UNLV	NT	51.08	2
	5	Broadbent, Douglas	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x51.10
(Event 26  Men 100 Yard Butterfly)
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	6	Lorring, Peter	UNLV	NT	51.49	1
	7	Christian, Timothy	UNLV	NT	51.52
	8	Egly, Daniel	UNLV	NT	x53.84
Event 27  Women 3 mtr Diving
	Name	School	Finals Score	Points
	1	Jackman, Ava	BYU SWIMMING	NT	290.00	9
	2	Jones, Tawni	BYU SWIMMING	NT	260.10	4
	3	Woods, Emily	BYU SWIMMING	NT	257.15	3
	4	Chang, Kimberly	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x241.45
	5	Williams, Wendy	UNLV	NT	235.20	2
	6	Kelly, Caitlin	UNLV	NT	226.95	1
Event 28  Men 3 mtr Diving
	Name	School	Finals Score	Points
	1	Engstrom, Bryce	BYU SWIMMING	NT	274.05	9
	2	English, Vincent	UNLV	NT	266.70	4
	3	Arb, Matt	UNLV	NT	260.00	3
	4	Tanimoto, Eli	UNLV	NT	252.10	2
	5	Moulton, Drew	BYU SWIMMING	NT	249.45	1
Event 29  Women 200 Yard IM
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Grant, Rachel	BYU SWIMMING	2:06.97	2:05.68	9
	2	Gillespie, Lisa	UNLV	NT	2:06.72	4
	3	Patience, Tara	BYU SWIMMING	2:05.15	2:06.93	3
	4	Christiansen, Sara Jayne	BYU SWIMMING	2:07.55	2:08.49	2
	5	Kuestermeyer, Bailey	UNLV	NT	2:10.09	1
	6	Dangalakova, Ana	UNLV	NT	2:10.88
	7	Clarke, Kelsey	UNLV	NT	x2:11.25
	8	Smith, Carly	BYU SWIMMING	2:09.06	x2:11.54
Event 30  Men 200 Yard IM
	Name	School	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	Phillips, Devin	UNLV	NT	1:53.24	9
	2	Clark, Kenny	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:54.03	4
	3	Hamilton, Neal	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:54.60	3
	4	Rutherfurd, Andrew	BYU SWIMMING	NT	1:54.64	2
	5	Blank, Nicholas	UNLV	NT	1:57.52	1
	6	Slenys, Vytenis	BYU SWIMMING	NT	x1:59.75
	7	Egmar, Magnus	UNLV	NT	2:03.13
	---	Ellingsen, Michael	UNLV	NT	DQ
Event 31  Women 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
	Team	Relay	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	BYU SWIMMING	    A	1:38.10	3:28.34	11
	1) Roberts, Leilani	2) Ferrell, Kirsty	3) Menezes, Michelle	4) Miller, Aleesha
	2	UNLV	    A	NT	3:28.71	4
	1) Sandback, Marina	2) Harpak, Marva	3) Bonney, Kim	4) Hunt-Higgins, Megan
	3	BYU SWIMMING	    B	NT	3:35.93	2
	1) Menezes, Natasha	2) Chan, U-Nice	3) Price, Angela	4) Crist, Samantha
(Event 31  Women 400 Yard Freestyle Relay)
	Team	Relay	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	4	UNLV	    C	NT	3:37.16
	1) Cirulis, Chanel	2) Nettenstrom, Kari	3) Plantaric, Samantha	4) Neff, Jenna
	5	UNLV	    B	NT	x3:37.68
	1) Crowley, Bridget	2) Clark, Megan	3) Sreibers, Lara	4) Rousell, Madison
	6	BYU SWIMMING	    C	NT	x3:48.77
	1) Marriott, Julia	2) Moyes, Karen	3) Yocom, Audra	4) McHenry, Celleigh
Event 32  Men 400 Yard Freestyle Relay
	Team	Relay	Seed Time	Finals Time	Points
	1	BYU SWIMMING	    A	NT	3:02.92	11
	1) Azevedo, Jorge	2) Greiner, Gregor	3) Price, Travis	4) Su, Jeffrey
	2	BYU SWIMMING	    B	NT	3:04.78	4
	1) Hofstedt, Daniel	2) Anderson, Zach	3) Henderson, Blake	4) Mason, David
	3	UNLV	    A	NT	3:06.23	2
	1) Bosnyak, Tamas	2) Seiler, David	3) Claar, Johan	4) Hortness, Richard
	4	UNLV	    B	NT	3:13.11
	1) Lorring, Peter	2) Eldridge, Calan	3) Andolfsson, Thomas	4) Merrill, Mike