Meet Details
Rice 136.5, FIU 84.5
FIU Record: 3-1
Friday, October 27 | 4 p.m. | New Orleans | Reily Natatorium
The Basics
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â FIU lost its first dual meet of the season, to Rice 136.5-84.5, to begin the Dual-A-Pool-Ooza at Tulane University's Reily Natatorium Friday evening. Rice entered the week as the top-ranked squad in the Mid-Major poll at CollegeSwimming.com. FIU was third in that poll. The two-day event will feature three unique dual meets in three shortened programs in a 24-hour period.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â FIU took the diving with sophomore Brooke Bouchard (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) scoring 265.25, freshman Rachel Foord (Mebourne, Australia) registering a 259.25 and senior Rebecca Quesnel (Burlington, Ontario, Canada) coming in third at 250.60 in the 3-meter springboard event.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Panthers took only three of the 11 swimming events of that shortened program.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Senior Kyna Pereira (Umkomass, South Africa) was the first Panther to win an event, taking the 1,000 Free, at 10:06.65. Freshman teammate Stephanie Hussey (Beaconsfield, Quebec, Canada) was third in that event.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Sophomore Carita Luukkanen (Lambere, France) got to the wall first in the 200 Breast, logging a time of 2:18.80.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Junior Naomi Ruele (Gaborone, Botswana) was first in the 50 Back, with a time of 26.15.
-Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Panthers were out-touched at the wall in the 400 Medley Relay to start the swimming events, and were just under a second behind in the 100 Free Relay to end the dual.
From the Pool Deck
"Rice was the better team today," said FIU Head Coach Randy Horner. "They are a good team that showed why they are ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Major rankings. We have a lot of work to do between now and February."
Next Up
The final day of Dual-A-Pool-Ooza features meets with host Tulane at 11 a.m. Eastern, and finishes with a dual versus Denver at 4 p.m. Tulane is the fifth-ranked team in the Mid-Major poll, with Denver sitting sixth at the latest ranking.
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About FIU: Florida International University is classified by Carnegie as a "R1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity" and recognized as a Carnegie Community Engaged university. It is a public research university with colleges and schools that offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral programs in fields such as business, engineering, computer science, international relations, architecture, law and medicine. As one of South Florida's anchor institutions, FIU contributes almost $9 billion each year to the local economy and is ranked second in Florida in Forbes Magazine's "America's Best Employers" list. FIU graduates are consistently among the highest paid college graduates in Florida and are among the leaders of public and private organizations throughout South Florida. FIU is Worlds Ahead in finding solutions to the most challenging problems of our time. FIU emphasizes research as a major component of its mission with multiple state-of-the-art research facilities including the Wall of Wind Research and Testing Facility, FIU's Medina Aquarius Program and the Advanced Materials Engineering Research Institute. FIU has awarded more than 220,000 degrees and enrolls more than 54,000 students in two
