Fresno State Athletics
Fresno State
WAC Championships
Gjoen Swims to Finals
2/26/2009 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
FRESNO, Calif. -- Freshman swimmer Heidi Gjoen (Oslo, Norway) went the distance in the 500 yard freestyle preliminaries as junior diver Kendra Weeks captured a point for the Bulldogs day two of the WAC Championships at the Palo Alto Natatorium in San Antonio.
"We had a great morning session," said head coach Jeanne Fleck. "Everyone did lifetime best times."
Gjoen went 5:08.30 to 25th place in heat one preliminaries and topped New Mexico State's Brittany Barr to qualify for the 20-lap event finals. In addition, the `Dogs qualified for the 200 freestyle relay finals. Sophomore Stephanie Hatayama was right on her season best time in the 50 freestyle preliminary event and finished 25.11.
Gjoen went on to swim the final heat of the 500 freestyle event and finished mid-fleet. She continued to progress shaving two seconds off her previous best time she swam earlier this morning, finishing 5:06.82.
"It was very exciting," said Fleck. "Heidi improved two seconds from her time this morning."
Moving into the evening, the 200 freestyle relay team pushed to lifetime bests in each leg with each member improving their times. Hatayama, freshman Dede Torres & Jordan Morillo swam to top times, finishing their 50 yard legs 24.08, 24.05 and 25.01 respectively.
But one of the best performances given Thursday was on the 1-meter diving board by Weeks, a junior diver from Folsom, Calif. Weeks dove to a 16th place finish and captured the first individual point for swimming and diving this year.
For complete results and WAC Championship schedules following each day's events, please log onto www.gobulldogs.com.
"Join the State - Fresno State" -The Fresno State swimming and diving team heads into day three of the WAC Championship action Friday, Feb. 27 at 11 a.m. CT. To subscribe to live streaming of the daily finals, please log onto www.wac.tv.org or the swimming and diving page at www.gobulldogs.com.
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