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MONDAY,JULY 14,2014
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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SWIMMING AND DIVING
Team to compete in nine local meets during season
Caroline Patterson, the current senior captain, swims at a meet against Arkansas inside Robinson Natatorium on Feb. 2, 2012. This year, the team has seven meets in Lawrence.
BLAIR SHEADE
sports@kansan.com
The 2014-15 women's swimming and diving team will have three more meets close to home than last season, which translates to a more well-rested and better-performing team, according to coach Clark Campbell.
Of the 13 swimming and diving meets during regular season, seven of them will be held in Lawrence, one in Topeka and one in Liberty, Mo. Last season, the team only held six meets at those locations.
EMILY WITTLER/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Patterson also said it's a chance for fans and other competitive swimmers in the area to watch.
Caroline Patterson, the senior captain from Boulder, Colo., said the three closer meets are a good thing and that it will help to train consistently in the pool they'll use for competing.
"Swimming is pretty big in Kansas," Patterson said. "We have incredible support from people out here and people from KU."
The swimming and diving team is young this season after replacing seven seniors with nine incoming freshmen, Campbell said. He said having so many home meets will give the team an advantage during the season and allow the swimming and diving program to gain exposure.
"We won't be travel weary, so I think maintaining a training consistency will be easier," Campbell said. "Also, the kids really enjoy swimming in front of the home crowd."
team will have three consecutive meets in Lawrence-three weeks without travel—and Campbell said he thinks the swimmers will be better rested.
After the national meet, Kansas will ramp up training to get ready for the Big 12 Conference on Feb. 25-28 and the NCAA Championship meet on March 19-21, Campbell said.Before those meets, Kansas has two consecutive home meets against the University of Arkansas and Iowa State University.
Campbell said he likes to train his squad lightly leading up to the USA National meet on Dec. 4-6, which wasn't possible last season with travel for away matches in the weeks before. Before those meets, the combined
"We want to peak at the right time," Campbell said. "We like to look at our schedule like a syllabus in a class. Dual meets are quizzes, because if you bomb a duel meet, it's not the end of the world. Our midterm exam is our fall championship meets like the Kansas Classic and the USA National meet. Then our final exam is the Big 12 Conference meet and the NCAA meet."
backstroke and the 200-meter individual medley, said.
Traveling to Topeka isn't a big deal for the team because it's less than 30 miles away, and the Capitol Federal Natatorium, which has hosted the Kansas Classic since 2012, has a lot more space for fans and for competitors, Campbell said.
"Our pool isn't a Taj Mahal by any means...it's a historical pool," Campbell said. "We like bringing people in and the competitors get to see the big Jayhawks on the wall. It's a great environment, but it's not brand spanking new. [The Kansas Classic] wouldn't have the same panache because [Capitol Federal Natatorium] is one of the newer, Taj Mahal-type facilities."
The advantage Patterson said the home meets will create is the motivation from all of the fans, which will be important when they take their show on the road to Topeka for the third annual Kansas Classic on Nov. 21-23.
"It definitely helps when you're in the later days of the meet and you're tired, but having the fans from KU is always a big plus," Patterson, who swims the 100-meter and 200-meter
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The swimming and diving team will hold their intrasquad meet on Oct. 4. The team's first meet will be against the University of Nebraska-Omaha in Omaha on Oct. 13.
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2014-15 SCHEDULE
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*Oct. 4 Intrasquad
Oct. 13 Nebraska-Omaha
*Oct. 24-25 Denver/Missouri State
*Nov. 1 TCU/North Dakota
*Nov. 8 Illinois
Nov. 21-23 Kansas Classic (Topeka)
Dec. 4 USA Winter Nationals
Dec. 4-6 UT Diving Invitational
*Dec. 6 Jayhawk Open
Jan 10 UCLA/San Diego
Jan. 24 William Jewell/Truman State (Liberty, Mo.)
*Jan. 31 Arkansas
*Feb. 6-7 Iowa State
Feb. 25-28 Big 12 Championships
March 5-7 Zone Diving
Championships
March 19-21 NCAA
Championships
*denotes home meet
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