Trio of Cougar Women Highlight Thursday's Win

PROVO -- The Cougars showed very few signs of a month long lay-off on Thursday as both the men and women's swim and dive teams came out on top of the visiting Horned Frogs. The BYU men won 140-95 and the women finished above TCU 126-100.

"We swam better than I thought we would today since we have not raced in so long," BYU women's coach Stan Crump said. "Most of our girls were within a tenth of a second of their previous season-best time which is great. I would attribute that to our tough training over the Christmas break."

The Cougar women had a complete sweep by winning every race against the Horned Frogs. A trio of swimmers, who each won two events -- Natasha Menezes, Aleesha Miller and Sara Jayne Christiansen, highlighted this impressive performance by the BYU women.

Menezes touched the wall first in the 200 and 500 freestyle events with times of 1:52.79 and 5:03.18, respectively. Miller dominated the freestyle sprint distances as she finished with a time of 23.52 in the 50 free and a time of 51.45 in the 100 free, while Christiansen finished first in the 200 IM (2:06.87) and in the 100 backstroke (58.61).

The BYU men were able to mirror the women's performance as they finished 45 points ahead of the visiting TCU. The Cougar men swept the two relays on the day. In the 200 medley, BYU finished in a time of 1:31.40 which is two second faster than the second-place team, while in the 200 free the top Cougar team won with a time of 1:23.90.

"Our competitive attitude was positive today which I am very pleased with," BYU men's coach Tim Powers said. "Since we are just coming off of a long lay over, you could tell that there were some places where we're a bit rusty but overall it was a good meet."

Individually, the BYU men saw freshman Vytenis Slenys of Lithuania win the 100 breaststroke as well as the 200 IM. Slenys recorded a time of 57.38 in the 100 breast and finished with a time of 1:54.43 in the 200 IM.

After such an impressive performance on Thursday, the men's swim team does not have any time to waste in getting to their next meet tomorrow at 12 p.m. in Federal Way, Wash. The team boarded a bus less than an hour after the end of the TCU meet to arrive in Washington at 11 p.m. and to face-off with the University of Washington Huskies less than 12 hours later.

The Cougar women will be back in action on Saturday at 1 p.m. as San Diego State comes to Provo. This will be held in the Richards Building Pool and is free to the public.

TCU at BYU
                                        January 10, 2008
                                Team Rankings - Through Event 26
                                       Women - Team Scores
  Place        School                                                                 Points
      1        Byu                                          BYU                         126
      2        Tcu                                          TCU-NT                      100
                                                                        Total 226.00
                                        Men - Team Scores
  Place        School                                                                 Points
      1        Byu                                          BYU                         140
      2        Tcu                                          TCU-NT                       95
                                                                        Total 235.00
1 Women 200 Yard Medley Relay
Team			Relay	Finals Time
1		BYU		A	1:46.89
Christiansen, Sara Jayne FR		Bloom, Jamie SR
Price, Angela SR		Miller, Aleesha FR
27.89		29.93		25.78		23.29
2		TCU-NT		A	1:49.40
Martinez, Brittney M FR		Bradley, Elllie
Melenric, Natalie F SO		Pappas, Nicole J FR
28.11		30.58		26.34		24.37
3		TCU-NT		B	1:52.26
Shipps, Crystal M SO		Pottenger, Maribeth M SR
Futscher, Stephanie L SO		Zander, Macy V FR
28.87		30.68		27.90		24.81
4		BYU		B	1:52.52
McHenry, Celleigh JR		Stacey, Johanna SO
Smith, Carly SR		Yocom, Audra FR
28.67		30.57		27.43		25.85
5		TCU-NT		C	x1:52.96
Smith, Samantha A FR		Rosen, Katie A JR
Jones, Shannon L FR		Alvarez, Maria
28.74		31.21		27.86		25.15
#2 Men 200 Yard Medley Relay
Team			Relay	Finals Time
1		BYU		A	1:31.40
Slenys, Vytenis FR		Mason, David JR
Azevedo, Jorge SR		Merrell, Andrew JR
24.35		25.41		21.15		20.49
2		TCU-NT		A	1:33.34
Berrettini, Jonathon V SR		Allred, Cameron E SR
Hauck, Jason D JR		McCracken, Scott M SR
23.20		26.88		23.11		20.15
3		BYU		B	1:34.96
Ferrell, John SR		Morin, Justin JR
Henderson, Blake SR		Greiner, Gregor SR
24.63		26.64		22.88		20.81
4		TCU-NT		B	1:40.39
Gettel, Jeffrey S FR		Murphey, Charles F SO
Weaver, Garrett G FR		Bodin, Daniel V FR
24.64		28.77		24.47		22.51
#3 Women 1000 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Grant, Rachel	 FR		BYU	10:18.46
28.71		30.48		30.66		30.75
31.33		31.12		31.33		31.42
31.25		31.14		30.88		31.13
31.54		31.00		31.47		31.62
31.75		31.42		31.45		28.01
2		Chan, U-Nice	 SR		BYU	10:46.60
30.37		32.18		32.26		32.67
32.09		32.50		32.53		32.35
32.20		32.29		32.17		32.32
32.76		32.43		32.28		32.46
32.60		32.39		33.14		32.61
3		Bardwell, Sarah C	 JR		TCU-NT	10:51.15
29.61		31.58		32.20		32.32
32.46		32.61		32.51		32.81
32.83		32.88		33.04		33.08
32.99		33.15		33.03		32.86
32.94		33.10		32.81		32.34
4		Walker, Keilah D	 SR		TCU-NT	10:55.09
29.44		31.03		31.75		32.49
32.58		33.30		33.32		33.38
33.16		33.40		33.25		33.44
33.31		33.17		33.19		33.20
33.29		33.16		33.07		32.16
5		Livengood, Elise	 JR		BYU	11:06.16
30.88		33.16		33.34		33.82
34.05		33.91		33.90		34.02
34.25		33.81		33.57		33.63
33.82		33.61		33.33		33.22
32.84		32.82		32.62		31.56
#4 Men 1000 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Bates, Samuel	 FR		BYU	9:44.08
26.80		29.11		29.12		29.66
29.68		29.68		29.66		29.78
29.67		29.75		29.75		29.51
29.41		29.59		29.42		29.16
29.03		28.53		28.29		28.48
2		Hamilton, Neal	 SR		BYU	9:48.62
26.70		29.34		29.45		29.58
29.57		29.51		29.58		29.56
29.54		29.51		29.31		29.48
29.54		29.60		29.69		29.88
29.82		29.83		29.75		29.38
3		Anderson, Zach	 SR		BYU	9:54.98
27.43		29.82		29.78		29.59
30.05		29.59		29.91		29.72
29.70		29.83		29.77		29.70
29.92		30.12		29.57		29.98
29.89		30.13		30.48		30.00
4		Woods, Trevor R	 FR		TCU-NT	10:05.37
27.30		29.68		30.18		30.15
29.99		30.16		30.39		30.33
30.56		30.69		30.74		30.65
30.55		30.69		30.64		30.68
30.97		30.95		30.60		29.47
5		Majek, Mike L	 FR		TCU-NT	10:20.26
27.47		29.54		30.30		30.72
30.86		30.88		31.20		30.97
31.47		31.78		31.88		31.71
32.06		31.69		31.51		31.79
31.53		31.26		31.40		30.24
#5 Women 200 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Menezes, Natasha	 SO		BYU	1:52.79
26.77		28.44		28.49		29.09
2		Hall, Whitney	 JR		BYU	1:55.74
28.23		29.16		29.27		29.08
3		Alvarez, Maria		TCU-NT	1:55.83
27.93		29.30		29.76		28.84
4		Menezes, Michelle	 FR		BYU	1:55.92
27.71		28.75		29.83		29.63
5		Martinez, Brittney M	 FR		TCU-NT	1:58.87
27.78		29.75		30.55		30.79
6		Miles, Jessica E	 FR		TCU-NT	2:00.42
27.36		29.97		31.60		31.49
7		Futscher, Stephanie L	 SO		TCU-NT	x2:06.05
28.83		32.00		32.69		32.53
#6 Men 200 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Price, Travis	 SR		BYU	1:41.78
24.03		25.87		25.91		25.97
2		Clark, Kenny	 JR		BYU	1:43.30
24.68		26.71		26.24		25.67
3		Hauck, Jason D	 JR		TCU-NT	1:44.81
25.07		27.11		26.96		25.67
4		Hofstedt, Daniel	 FR		BYU	1:45.04
24.63		26.81		27.10		26.50
5		Hendricks, Jeffery A	 FR		TCU-NT	1:47.26
25.16		27.06		27.39		27.65
6		Goodfellow, Jacob	 FR		BYU	x1:49.73
25.49		27.46		28.06		28.72
7		Bodin, Daniel V	 FR		TCU-NT	1:52.00
25.42		28.32		29.35		28.91
#7 Women 50 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Miller, Aleesha	 FR		BYU	23.52
2		Ferrell, Kirsty	 SO		BYU	24.50
3		Lynch, Mychala R	 FR		TCU-NT	24.99
4		Crist, Samantha	 FR		BYU	25.19
5		Zander, Macy V	 FR		TCU-NT	25.32
6		Pappas, Nicole J	 FR		TCU-NT	25.43
7		Melenric, Natalie F	 SO		TCU-NT	x25.45
8		Yocom, Audra	 FR		BYU	x26.39
#8 Men 50 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		McCracken, Scott M	 SR		TCU-NT	21.07
2		Merrell, Andrew	 JR		BYU	21.13
3		Su, Jeffrey	 SR		BYU	21.24
(#8 Men 50 Yard Free)
4		Mason, David	 JR		BYU	21.57
5		Bagby, Joshua D	 SO		TCU-NT	21.63
6		Savic, Nikola	 FR		BYU	x22.11
7		Iannacone, Benjamin G	 FR		TCU-NT	22.27
8		Allred, Cameron E	 SR		TCU-NT	x22.93
#9 Women 200 Yard IM
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Christiansen, Sara Jayne	 FR		BYU	2:06.87
27.75		31.37		37.32		30.43
2		Roberts, Leilani	 JR		BYU	2:08.36
28.49		33.32		37.26		29.29
3		Smith, Carly	 SR		BYU	2:12.03
30.21		33.33		38.27		30.22
4		Townsend, Cheryl	 JR		TCU-NT	2:12.56
29.60		33.82		38.73		30.41
5		Grubb, Meredith E	 SO		TCU-NT	2:14.07
29.34		34.75		39.09		30.89
6		Marriott, Julia	 FR		BYU	x2:17.73
30.19		34.77		38.79		33.98
7		Pottenger, Michelle T	 SR		TCU-NT	2:19.10
29.77		35.56		41.13		32.64
8		Rosen, Katie A	 JR		TCU-NT	x2:22.08
30.54		39.34		38.56		33.64
#10 Men 200 Yard IM
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Slenys, Vytenis	 FR		BYU	1:54.43
28.49		33.32		37.26		15.36
2		Jacobson, Jacoby	 JR		BYU	1:55.12
30.21		33.33		38.27		13.31
3		Rutherfurd, Andrew	 FR		BYU	1:55.72
27.75		31.37		37.32		19.28
4		Wells, Brady	 FR		BYU	x1:57.41
30.19		34.77		38.79		13.66
5		Biefnes, Ben R	 SO		TCU-NT	1:58.81
29.60		33.82		38.73		16.66
6		Peyro, Edgar A	 FR		TCU-NT	1:58.92
29.77		35.56		41.13		12.46
7		Todd, Peter C	 SO		TCU-NT	2:04.62
30.54		39.34		38.56		16.18
8		Gettel, Jeffrey S	 FR		TCU-NT	x2:06.66
29.34		34.75		39.09		23.48
#11 Women 1 mtr Diving
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Score
1		Hale, Hannah S	 JR		TCU-NT	220.65
2		Glampe, Destiny J	 SO		TCU-NT	168.38
---		Malmrose, Holly	 SO		BYU	X157.28
---		Bowen, Tricia	 SO		BYU	X225.70
---		Chang, Kimberly	 JR		BYU	X236.33
---		Woods, Emily	 SO		BYU	X242.55
---		Jackman, Ava	 SO		BYU	X273.30
---		Jones, Tawni	 SO		BYU	X291.60
#12 Men 3 mtr Diving
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Score
1		Hesselberg, Raymond J	 JR		TCU-NT	344.10
2		Callens, Joseph S	 FR		TCU-NT	280.20
3		Moulton, Drew	 FR		BYU	248.40
4		Engstrom, Bryce	 SO		BYU	235.50
#13 Women 100 Yard Fly
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Price, Angela	 SR		BYU	57.88
2		Melenric, Natalie F	 SO		TCU-NT	58.44
3		Lynch, Mychala R	 FR		TCU-NT	58.59
4		Ferrell, Kirsty	 SO		BYU	58.75
5		Chan, U-Nice	 SR		BYU	1:00.59
6		Pottenger, Michelle T	 SR		TCU-NT	1:01.91
#14 Men 100 Yard Fly
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Azevedo, Jorge	 SR		BYU	49.04
22.60		26.44
2		Broadbent, Douglas	 SR		BYU	51.33
24.39		26.94
3		Henderson, Blake	 SR		BYU	51.56
24.25		27.31
4		Hauck, Jason D	 JR		TCU-NT	52.64
24.57		28.07
5		Peyro, Edgar A	 FR		TCU-NT	52.66
24.89		27.77
6		Weaver, Garrett G	 FR		TCU-NT	55.36
25.40		29.96
7		Majek, Mike L	 FR		TCU-NT	x56.49
25.82		30.67
#15 Women 100 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Miller, Aleesha	 FR		BYU	51.45
24.82		26.63
2		Roberts, Leilani	 JR		BYU	52.36
25.37		26.99
3		Miles, Jessica E	 FR		TCU-NT	55.27
26.42		28.85
4		Crist, Samantha	 FR		BYU	55.37
26.61		28.76
5		Jones, Shannon L	 FR		TCU-NT	55.54
26.93		28.61
6		Zander, Macy V	 FR		TCU-NT	55.78
26.43		29.35
7		Walker, Keilah D	 SR		TCU-NT	x56.03
26.90		29.13
8		Yocom, Audra	 FR		BYU	x57.59
27.28		30.31
#16 Men 100 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Su, Jeffrey	 SR		BYU	45.54
22.13		23.41
2		Greiner, Gregor	 SR		BYU	46.13
22.91		23.22
3		Bagby, Joshua D	 SO		TCU-NT	46.57
22.76		23.81
4		Clark, Kenny	 JR		BYU	48.06
23.06		25.00
5		Hofstedt, Daniel	 FR		BYU	x48.28
23.32		24.96
6		Iannacone, Benjamin G	 FR		TCU-NT	49.27
23.85		25.42
7		Hendricks, Jeffery A	 FR		TCU-NT	49.33
23.68		25.65
8		Murphey, Charles F	 SO		TCU-NT	x54.06
26.16		27.90
#17 Women 100 Yard Back
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Christiansen, Sara Jayne	 FR		BYU	58.61
28.92		29.69
2		Grant, Rachel	 FR		BYU	59.23
29.12		30.11
3		Martinez, Brittney M	 FR		TCU-NT	1:00.83
29.87		30.96
4		Shipps, Crystal M	 SO		TCU-NT	1:01.31
29.85		31.46
5		Patience, Tara	 SR		BYU	1:01.44
30.09		31.35
6		Townsend, Cheryl	 JR		TCU-NT	1:01.87
30.59		31.28
7		Smith, Samantha A	 FR		TCU-NT	x1:02.20
30.12		32.08
#18 Men 100 Yard Back
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Berrettini, Jonathon V	 SR		TCU-NT	50.76
24.65		26.11
2		Gettel, Jeffrey S	 FR		TCU-NT	52.01
25.32		26.69
3		Jacobson, Jacoby	 JR		BYU	52.15
25.71		26.44
4		Ferrell, John	 SR		BYU	52.82
25.99		26.83
5		Ferrell, Jeff	 SO		BYU	53.53
26.01		27.52
6		Savic, Nikola	 FR		BYU	x54.96
26.78		28.18
7		Todd, Peter C	 SO		TCU-NT	58.38
28.09		30.29
#19 Women 500 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Menezes, Natasha	 SO		BYU	5:03.18
28.14		29.24		30.40		30.94
31.15		31.17		30.67		30.92
30.86		29.69
(#19 Women 500 Yard Free)
2		Alvarez, Maria		TCU-NT	5:09.84
28.93		30.29		30.80		31.08
31.06		31.19		31.66		31.94
31.96		30.93
3		McHenry, Celleigh	 JR		BYU	5:13.27
29.44		30.80		31.07		31.49
31.49		31.48		32.09		32.30
31.91		31.20
4		Menezes, Michelle	 FR		BYU	5:13.47
29.62		31.00		31.11		31.92
31.63		31.97		31.59		31.95
32.02		30.66
5		Grubb, Meredith E	 SO		TCU-NT	5:17.71
28.53		30.22		31.30		31.99
32.26		32.50		32.79		33.02
32.57		32.53
6		Bardwell, Sarah C	 JR		TCU-NT	5:23.18
29.37		31.80		32.09		32.41
32.54		32.73		32.90		33.17
33.19		32.98
7		Pottenger, Michelle T	 SR		TCU-NT	x5:38.54
29.98		31.56		32.68		33.25
33.40		33.18		33.50		33.46
33.47		44.06
#20 Men 500 Yard Free
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Price, Travis	 SR		BYU	4:37.71
25.68		27.56		27.99		27.94
27.84		28.40		28.23		28.28
28.32		27.47
2		Biefnes, Ben R	 SO		TCU-NT	4:53.58
26.59		28.78		29.27		29.52
29.16		28.59		28.79		30.66
31.68		30.54
3		Woods, Trevor R	 FR		TCU-NT	4:53.97
26.43		29.11		29.35		29.73
29.95		29.88		30.03		30.04
30.05		29.40
---		Bates, Samuel	 FR		BYU	X4:43.65
26.19		28.40		28.68		28.62
29.13		29.01		28.66		28.43
28.65		27.88
---		Anderson, Zach	 SR		BYU	X4:46.32
27.12		29.36		29.33		29.21
29.48		28.98		28.43		29.11
28.58		26.72
---		Hamilton, Neal	 SR		BYU	X4:46.63
26.84		29.73		29.77		29.09
29.15		28.96		28.87		29.15
28.13		26.94
#21 Women 3 mtr Diving
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Score
1		Hale, Hannah S	 JR		TCU-NT	219.83
2		Glampe, Destiny J	 SO		TCU-NT	121.75
---		Chang, Kimberly	 JR		BYU	X247.88
---		Woods, Emily	 SO		BYU	X259.96
---		Jackman, Ava	 SO		BYU	X272.03
---		Jones, Tawni	 SO		BYU	X279.98
#22 Men 1 mtr Diving
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Score
1		Engstrom, Bryce	 SO		BYU	286.95
2		Callens, Joseph S	 FR		TCU-NT	261.30
3		Hesselberg, Raymond J	 JR		TCU-NT	246.52
4		Moulton, Drew	 FR		BYU	223.05
#23 Women 100 Yard Breast
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Bradley, Elllie		TCU-NT	1:06.46
31.44		35.02
2		Rosen, Katie A	 JR		TCU-NT	1:07.27
31.81		35.46
3		Pottenger, Maribeth M	 SR		TCU-NT	1:08.43
32.24		36.19
---		Bloom, Jamie	 SR		BYU	X1:05.53
30.84		34.69
---		Stacey, Johanna	 SO		BYU	X1:08.46
32.73		35.73
---		Marriott, Julia	 FR		BYU	X1:10.18
33.76		36.42
#24 Men 100 Yard Breast
Name		Yr	 Team	Finals Time
1		Slenys, Vytenis	 FR		BYU	57.38
26.83		30.55
2		Allred, Cameron E	 SR		TCU-NT	58.73
27.57		31.16
3		Peyro, Edgar A	 FR		TCU-NT	1:00.26
28.64		31.62
4		Biefnes, Ben R	 SO		TCU-NT	1:01.02
28.16		32.86
5		Murphey, Charles F	 SO		TCU-NT	x1:03.21
29.73		33.48
---		Morin, Justin	 JR		BYU	X58.73
27.59		31.14
---		Grant, Bradley	 SO		BYU	X58.85
---		Wells, Brady	 FR		BYU	X59.46
27.82		31.64
---		Duffin, Avery	 FR		BYU	X1:00.04
---		Rutherfurd, Andrew	 FR		BYU	X1:00.43
28.48		31.95
#25 Women 200 Yard Free Relay
Team			Relay	Finals Time
1		TCU-NT		A	1:39.98
Pappas, Nicole J FR		Lynch, Mychala R FR
Jones, Shannon L FR		Miles, Jessica E FR
25.54		24.71		24.84		24.89
2		TCU-NT		B	1:41.33
Grubb, Meredith E SO		Townsend, Cheryl JR
Shipps, Crystal M SO		Walker, Keilah D SR
25.88		25.48		25.25		24.72
---		BYU		A	X1:36.50
Grant, Rachel FR		Ferrell, Kirsty SO
Menezes, Natasha SO		Roberts, Leilani JR
24.71		23.94		24.01		23.84
---		BYU		B	X1:39.47
Menezes, Michelle FR		Price, Angela SR
Hall, Whitney JR		Chan, U-Nice SR
25.21		24.53		25.05		24.68
---		BYU		C	X1:42.83
Crist, Samantha FR		Livengood, Elise JR
Bloom, Jamie SR		Stacey, Johanna SO
25.25		26.07		25.18		26.33
#26 Men 200 Yard Free Relay
Team			Relay	Finals Time
1		TCU-NT		A	1:24.59
Berrettini, Jonathon V SR		McCracken, Scott M SR
Iannacone, Benjamin G FR		Bagby, Joshua D SO
21.22		20.48		21.89		21.00
2		TCU-NT		B	1:31.51
Bodin, Daniel V FR		Hendricks, Jeffery A FR
Woods, Trevor R FR		Majek, Mike L FR
23.10		22.26		23.20		22.95
---		BYU		A	X1:23.90
Su, Jeffrey SR		Merrell, Andrew JR
Azevedo, Jorge SR		Price, Travis SR
21.08		21.09		20.99		20.74
---		BYU		B	X1:24.11
Greiner, Gregor SR		Clark, Kenny JR
Mason, David JR		Savic, Nikola FR
21.35		21.23		20.59		20.94