LAS CRUCES, NM – The New Mexico State swimming & diving team travels to Tucson, Ariz. for a quad meet on Friday, Jan. 6 at 12 p.m. MT. The meet will pit the Aggies against the host, Arizona Wildcats, the Northern Arizona Lumberjacks and the Oregon State Beavers.
Looking ahead to Friday's meet, head coach
Rick Pratt commented, "Swimming against Pac-12 programs is always a great experience and we're excited to race again after a month of heavy training during the holidays. We're healthy and in a strong place. This will be our only meet of the season out of altitude. We're expecting to see some good performances from our group as it is time to start to really fine tune our race strategies and skills."
NM State comes into 2017 sitting at 3-4 on the year. The Aggies most recent meet saw the team fall to Northern Arizona, 168-127 on Dec. 3.
Heading in to the meet in Arizona, junior
Lauryn Dean owns the ninth-best time in the conference, in the 50M freestyle, at 23.92 while junior
Picabo Bender's time of 51.59 in the 100 free at the Phil Hansen Invitational was good for fourth-fastest in the WAC. Bender also sits atop the leaderboard list in the 200 free, clocking a time of 1:50.05.
In the 1000M freestyle,
Grace Laporte comes in with a team-best time of 10:41.06 which is good for ninth in the conference. NM State also owns four of the top-10 spots in the 1,650 free led by Bender with a mark of 17:03.21.
Alix Knagg's pace of 1:59.66 in the 200 backstroke is good enough for second in the WAC while Petersson claims the fourth spot with a time of 2:01.83.
Lauren Wood's mark of 1:04.53 in Houston places her in seventh amongst WAC opponents while teammate
Hanna McGowan came in with a time 1:04.72.
In the 200 IM, Wood's time of 2:04.82 is good for fourth in the WAC while Krizanova (2:05.37) and Knagg (2:05.65) claimed the sixth and seventh spot respectively. Wood is also fourth in the 400 IM while Knagg checks in a tie for seventh.
After the meet at Arizona, the NM State dive team will take part in the Air Force Diving Invite in Colorado Springs, Colo. on Jan. 27-28.
