WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY SPORTS INFORMATION - SWIMMING RELEASE SID: Rod Commons ASSISTANTS: Linda Chalich, Craig Lawson, Jason Krump, Bill Stevens SWIMMING CONTACT: Rachel Porter ([email protected]) PHONE: (509) 335-2684; FAX: (509) 335-0267 February 20, 2006 [2-20-06 Pac-10 Championships ]

Cougars Take On Conference Rivals At Pac-10 Championships Washington State faces five teams ranks amongst the top-10 in the nation at conference meet.

UP NEXT This Week: The Cougars face off against conference rivals Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon Pac-10 Championships State, UCLA, USC and Washington at the 2006 Wednesday, Feb. 22 – Saturday, Feb. 25 Pacific-10 Women’s Swimming Championships in Long Beach, Calif., at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool Pool…meet begins Wednesday, Feb. 22 and Long Beach, Calif. concludes Saturday, Feb. 25, with preliminary races beginning at 11 a.m. each day followed by finals session at 6 p.m. each evening. 2005-06 Swimming Schedule Head Coach Erica Quam Says: “Our goal for Pac- Date Opponent/Meet Time 10s is simple: Improve. We have had a good season 9/30 INTRASQUAD 5 p.m. to set us up and this team is prepared, focused, and 10/7 CALIFORNIA 5 p.m. ready to race. We don’t need to over think things. If 10/14 IDAHO 5 p.m. each individual can focus on what has made them 10/28 at Pacific Invitational 3 p.m. successful this season and do one or two of those 10/29 at San Jose State Noon things better than they have already done this year in 11/4 at UBC Thunderbird Cup 4:30 p.m. each race, as a whole, we are going to have an 11/5 at UBC Thunderbird Cup 2 p.m. outstanding meet. We have the potential to set school 11/11 at Washington 6 p.m. records in several relays and quite a few individual 11/18 at Minnesota Invitational 10 a.m./4 p.m. events. We have the potential for a handful of people 11/19 at Minnesota Invitational 9 a.m./4 p.m. to qualify for the NCAA Championships and our 11/20 at Minnesota Invitational 8 a.m./1 p.m. goals are to maximize this potential by stepping up to 12/1 at U.S. Open 7:30 a.m./4 p.m. 12/2 at U.S. Open 7:30 a.m./4 p.m. the plate and do what we have prepared to and are 12/3 at U.S. Open 7:30 a.m./4 p.m. very capable of doing.” 12/31 at FIU Invitational 11 a.m. 1/6 at Panther Invitational (Relays) 11 a.m. 2006 Pac-10 Championship Preview: The 2006 1/27 OREGON STATE 5 p.m. Championships feature some of the top teams in the 2/4 at Idaho 11 a.m. country…latest CSCAA-Top 25 poll includes five 2/22 at Pac-10 Championships 11 a.m./6 p.m. Pac-10 teams ranked in the Top-10: No. 3 California, 2/23 at Pac-10 Championships 11 a.m./6 p.m. No. 4 UCLA, No. 6 Stanford, No. 7 Arizona and No. 2/24 at Pac-10 Championships 11 a.m./6 p.m. 10 USC ...seven 2005 individual Pac-10 champions 2/25 at Pac-10 Championships 11 a.m./6 p.m. are back to defend their nine crowns…Arizona State’s 2/26 at Pac-10 Invitational 11 a.m. Caitlin Andrew (100 butterfly), California’s Annie 3/16 at NCAA Championships 11 a.m./7 p.m. 3/17 at NCAA Championships 11 a.m./7 p.m. Babicz (100 ) and Emily Silver (200 3/18 at NCAA Championships 11 a.m./7 p.m. freestyle), Stanford’s Caroline Bruce (200 3/28 U.S. Nationals 9 a.m./6 p.m. breaststroke, 200 IM, and 400 IM) and 3/29 U.S. Nationals 9 a.m./6 p.m. (200 butterfly), UCLA’s Katie Arnold (100 3/30 U.S. Nationals 9 a.m./6 p.m. backstroke) and USC’s (1,650 3/31 U.S. Nationals 9 a.m./6 p.m. freestyle)…two NCAA individual champions will 4/1 U.S. Nationals 9 a.m./6 p.m. take the pool, Arizona’s Marshi Smith won an 2005 HOME MEETS IN BOLD NCAA title in the 100 backstroke, as did Stanford’s Bruce in the 100 and 200 breaststrokes...team results at the 2005 NCAA’s found four Pac-10 teams in the after winning the 100 and 200 breaststrokes in the Top-10…Arizona placed third, followed by No. 5 University of Pacific Invite, her first collegiate Stanford, No. 8 California and No. 10 USC...two other meet...WASHINGTON is led by senior Sharon teams placed in the Top-20, No. 12 Arizona State and Olson, who owns seven school records, including the No. 18 UCLA. 500 and 1,000 freestyles and the 200 IM...Sophomore Cailyn Shortt leads the Huskies all-time list in the 100 Coach Quam Says: “Once again, we have one of the breaststroke and appears on UW’s all-time Top-10 list best conferences in the nation to race. Swimmers in four times. the Pac-10 who WANT to improve, achieve their National cuts and make it to the NCAA

Championships will face some of the best racers in the nation that will challenge them to excel.” 2005 Pac-10 Championships Results

Cougar Scorers Scouting the Pac-10: No. 7 ARIZONA has finished in the Top-5 at the Pac-10 Championships every year Event Name Place/Time since 1996…women last won the team championships 100 Freestyle McCleave 11th/50.92

in 2000, but have consecutively posted at least one 200 Freestyle McCleave 13th/1:49.43 individual champion each year since 1997 1650 Freestyle Changstrom 15th/17:01.47 ...ARIZONA STATE placed 12th at the 2005 NCAA Daugvilaite 19th/17:12.91 Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships, Reichwald 24th/18:10.53 marking the team’s fourth straight Top-15 100 Breaststroke Povilonyte 13th/1:03.87 finish…sophomore Caitlin Andrew looks to repeat as Copland 17th/1:04.15 Pac-10 Champion in the 100 butterfly, as she won the Reiter 18th/1:04.41 event in seven meets this season... No. 3 CALIFORNIA enters this year’s Pac-10 200 Breaststroke Copland 15th/2:17.81 Povilonyte 17th/2:16.53 championships undefeated for the second time in three Reiter 18th/2:18.40 years…Bears lead the nation in five events, including 100 Butterfly Mooney 21st/56.54 the 500 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 400 freestyle relay, 200 medley relay and the 800 freestyle 200 Ind. Medley Copland 23rd/2:05.78

relay...senior Ashley Candler has the nation’s leading 400 Ind. Medley Changstrom 17th/4:22.08 time in the 500 freestyle, touching in 4:42.71... 200 Free Relay 9th/1:37.04 OREGON STATE broke its 25-year losing streak 400 Free Relay 8th/3:27.90 against Washington in the Beaver’s final dual meet of the season…win came down to the final event of the 800 Free Relay 8th/7:31.46

meet, the 400 freestyle relay, before a full house in 200 Medley Relay 9th/1:46.35 Corvallis... No. 6 STANFORD is the defending Pac- 400 Medley Relay 9th/3:50.95 10 champion and has won 16 of the 19 Pac-10 *list reflects scored finishers (24 individuals, all relays Championships contested... Caroline Bruce, the 2005

Pac-10 Swimmer and Newcomer of the Year, looks to 2005 Team Scores defend the three 2005 Pac-10 Championships titles in the 200 breaststroke, 200 IM and 400 IM... No. 4 1. Stanford 1,499.0 UCLA is led by senior Kim Vandenberg, who went 2. Arizona 1,237.0 undefeated in the 200 butterfly in dual meets this 3. California 1,088.5 season…Vandenberg has lost just once in her career, 4. UCLA 986.0 to Olympian and former USC swimmer Kaitlin 5. USC 954.5 Sandeno...No. 10 USC has come away with at least 6. Arizona State 926.5 one championship in 12 straight years…Junior Kalyn 7. Oregon State 504.5 Keller is the Pac-10’s two-time defending champion 8. Washington 468.0 in the 1650 freestyle and enters this year’s 9. Washington State 324.0 championship with the fastest time in the Conference…Freshman Rebecca Soni earned Conference Swimmer of the Month honors in October Last Competition: Washington State traveled to Idaho 14…McCleave’s time of 10:06.15 shaved six seconds where they faced the Vandals at the UI Swim Center off the previous WSU record of 10:12.96 set in 2001 Saturday, Feb. 4, in the final dual meet of the by Jill Olson…Cougar 800 freestyle team of season…Cougars defeated Idaho 135-70, winning 10 Changstrom, Copland, Daugvilaite and McCleave of 11 events…juniors Kayli Changstrom and Erin posted a time of 7:26.94 to earn the WSU record in McCleave paced the Cougars, each earning a pair of the event…previous record of 7:27.57 was set in individual wins…Changstrom secured the top spot in 2001. back-to-back races finishing first in the 400 individual medley (4:34.40) and added her second win with a Cougars In the “College Quick 100”: Washington time of 2:08.69 in the 200 butterfly…McCleave State has seven individual swimmers and five relay finished first in the 200 (1:52.26) and 500 (5:05.58) teams ranked in the Taper & Shave “College Quick freestyle events and combined with Jamie MacLeod, 100”…list tracks the top-100 times in the nation in 18 Katie Van Horne and Monika Povilonyte for a win in events...Cougars with top-25 times include McCleave the 200 freestyle relay (1:36.91)…Van Horne posted a (7th, 1650 freestyle; 15th, 500 freestyle; 21st, 200 win in the 100 freestyle (53.19), Afton Pickett and freestyle) and Copland (16th, 200 breaststroke)...800 Lina Daugvilaite added victories in the 200 freestyle relay time ranks 22nd (7:26.94). backstroke (2:06.14) and 1650 freestyle (17:40.23) respectively with Jane Copland rounding out the COUGARS IN THE “QUICK 100” Cougars' top finishes with a first place showing in the 200 breaststroke (2:21.63)…Changstrom, along with Name: Event Rank/Time Pickett, Povilonyte and Lindsay Backhouse also swam Kayli Changstrom: 500 Freestyle 90th/4:54.82 to victory in the 400 medley relay (3:56.53)...WSU 200 Butterfly 95th/2:03.73 finished its dual meet schedule with a 4-2 record. 400 Ind. Medley 85th/4:25.04 Jane Copland: 100 Breaststroke 73th/1:04.37 200 Breaststroke 16th/2:14.92 McCleave Earns National and Conference Honors: 200 Ind. Medley 76th/2:04.51 WSU junior Erin McCleave was named the Pac-10 Lina Daugvilaite: 1650 Freestyle 100th/17:07.61 Swimmer of the Month for the month of Erin McCleave: 100 Freestyle t54th/50.69 November…becomes first swimmer in school history 200 Freestyle 21st/1:48.48 to earn the award…McCleave won four events, set 500 Freestyle 15th/4:45.93 three WSU individual records, set two meet records 1650 Freestyle 7th/16:17.52 and earned several NCAA cuts at the Minnesota 100 Backstroke 83rd/56.86+ Invitational (Nov. 18-20) to garner the recognition… Elyse Peterson: 100 Breaststroke 95th/1:04.74 McCleave was also named National Collegiate Afton Pickett: 100 Backstroke 70th/56.67 200 Backstroke 52nd/2:01.17 Swimmer of the Week by CollegeSwimming.com for Monika Povilonyte: 100 Breaststroke 46th/1:03.92 her performance during the week of Nov. 17-21 at the 200 Breaststroke 44th/2:17.13 Minnesota Invite…McCleave is the first Washington WSU Relays: 200 Free Relay 29th/1:34.27 State swimmer to earn the honor since its inception in 400 Free Relay 33rd/3:25.79 1999. 800 Free Relay 22nd/7:26.94 200 Medley Relay 39th/1:44.68 In The Books: 2005-06 Cougars continue to rewrite 400 Medley Relay 38th/3:48.82

the Washington State record books…McCleave set TOP-25 TIMES IN BOLD + relay leadoff WSU records in the 200, 500 and 1650 freestyle events at Minnesota Invitational (Nov. 18-20)…500 Next Up For Washington State: The Cougars prepare freestyle time of 4:45.82 also bested meet record set for the 2006 NCAA Swimming and Diving by Olympian in 2004 and currently ranks Championships March 16-18 at the Gabrielsen as the sixth fastest time in the nation…posted 200 Natatorium in Athens, Ga…McCleave earned an freestyle time of 1:48.48 to beat her own record of automatic cut in the 1650 freestyle at the Minnesota 1:49.41 set in 2004…swam to a time of 16:17.06 in Invitational and looks to be joined by Copland, Pickett the 1650 freestyle setting a WSU record and shaving and Povilonyte who have each earned NCAA “B” 25 seconds off the previous record of 16:42.06… consideration standards this season. McCleave swam to a Gibb Pool and Washington State record in the 1000 freestyle against Idaho Oct.

2005-06 Washington State Top 5 Times

50 Free 1650 Free 100 Fly Elyse Peterson 18-Nov 23.70$ Erin McCleave 20-Nov 16:17.52*% Bryn Mooney 19-Nov 57.46 Jamie MacLeod 18-Nov 24.08$ Lina Daugvilaite 20-Nov 17:07.61$ Lindsay Backhouse 19-Nov 58.13 Erin McCleave 1-Dec 24.21c Kenzie Reiter 20-Nov 17:25.19$ Kayli Changstrom 30-Sep 59.17 Katie Van Horne 18-Nov 24.24 Laurie Gregg 20-Nov 17:34.86 Katie Van Horne 19-Nov 1:01.49 Bryn Mooney 18-Nov 24.48 Kayli Changstrom 28-Oct 17:42.17 Kenzie Reiter 30-Sep 1:01.53

100 Free 100 Back 200 Fly Erin McCleave 20-Nov 50.69$# Afton Pickett 19-Nov 56.67$ Kayli Changstrom 7-Oct 2:03.73$ Jamie MacLeod 20-Nov 51.95$ Erin McCleave 18-Nov 56.86$ Bryn Mooney 14-Oct 2:07.36 Katie Van Horne 20-Nov 52.39$ Lindsay Backhouse 19-Nov 59.32 Kenzie Reiter 20-Nov 2:09.30 Danielle Berish 20-Nov 52.89 Bryn Mooney 4-Feb 1:00.03 Kristin Marceau 20-Nov 2:13.76 Kayli Changstrom 30-Sep 53.72 Kelly O'Neill 19-Nov 1:01.32 Lindsay Backhouse 14-Oct 2:14.53

200 Free 200 Back 200 IM Erin McCleave 19-Nov 1:48.48*# Afton Pickett 20-Nov 2:01.17$# Jane Copland 18-Nov 2:04.51$ Kayli Changstrom 19-Nov 1:52.48$ Erin McCleave 14-Oct 2:05.09$ Kenzie Reiter 18-Nov 2:07.66 Lina Daugvilaite 19-Nov 1:52.57$ Lindsay Backhouse 27-Jan 2:06.47 Afton Pickett 18-Nov 2:08.00 Jamie MacLeod 19-Nov 1:53.68 Bryn Mooney 14-Oct 2:08.33 Kayli Changstrom 1-Dec 2:08.06c Danielle Berish 19-Nov 1:54.63 Kelly O'Neill 20-Nov 2:10.04 Erin McCleave 20-Jan 2:10.81

500 Free 100 Breast 400 IM Erin McCleave 18-Nov 4:45.93*# Monika Povilonyte 2-Dec 1:03.69c# Kayli Changstrom 28-Oct 4:25.04 Kayli Changstrom 18-Nov 4:54.82$ Jane Copland 2-Dec 1:04.32c Jane Copland 28-Oct 4:30.36$ Lina Daugvilaite 19-Nov 5:00.79 Elyse Peterson 19-Nov 1:04.74$ Kenzie Reiter 19-Nov 4:34.68 Laurie Gregg 19-Nov 5:01.77 Kayli Changstrom 30-Sep 1:08.38 Laurie Gregg 19-Nov 4:34.88 Kristin Marceau 19-Nov 5:08.00 Erin McCleave 30-Sep 1:09.39 Afton Pickett 28-Oct 4:40.63

1000 Free 200 Breast Erin McCleave 20-Nov 9:54.92* Jane Copland 20-Nov 2:14.92$# $ All-time Top Ten Kayli Changstrom 11-Nov 10:15.49$ Monika Povilonyte 3-Dec 2:17.14c# * School Record Lina Daugvilaite 20-Nov 10:23.25 Elyse Peterson 20-Nov 2:21.84$ # NCAA B Standard Kenzie Reiter 20-Nov 10:30.67 Afton Pickett 20-Jan 2:25.80 c-converted LCM Laurie Gregg 11-Nov 10:34.03 Kayli Changstrom 31 Dec 2:30.77

200 Free Relay Peterson (24.12), MacLeod (23.40), Van Horne (23.77), McCleave (22.98) 18-Nov 1:34.27

400 Free Relay MacLeod (51.95), Van Horne (51.51), McCleave (50.02), Changstrom (52.31) 20-Nov 3:25.79

800 Free Relay Changstrom (1:52.48$), Copland (1:51.87), Daugvilaite (1:53.43),McCleave (1:49.16) 19-Nov 7:26.94*

200 Medley Relay McCleave (27.09), Povilonyte (28.74), Mooney (25.69), Peterson (23.16) 19-Nov 1:44.68

400 Medley Relay Pickett (56.67), Povilonyte (1:03.92), Mooney (57.46), McCleave (50.69) AGG 3:48.74