University of Minnesota Athletics
GOPHERS TO COMPETE IN OLYMPIC TRIALS
6/7/2000 12:00:00 AM | Athletics
Co-head strength and conditioning coach Amy Scott will take part in the 2000 Olympic Team Trials of rowing, beginning today through Tuesday on the Cooper River in Camden, N.J. Scott will be competing in the women's lightweight double sculls, an event that will send one boat to the 2000 Olympics. Scott, a member of the Minnesota women's athletics department since 1994, is in charge of the strength and conditioning of several women's teams, including the new Minnesota rowing team which will begin competition in the fall of 2000.
Minnesota assistant track and field coach Sidney Cartwright will serve as the sprints, hurdles and jumps head coach for the Bahamas team at the Summer Olympics in Sydney. He served in the same role at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Cartwright competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles as a decathlete for the Bahamas. He has coached Minnesota's Christine Gulbrandsen to three Big Ten championships in the triple jump (two indoors, one outdoors) and Yvette White to the 400-meter hurdles Big Ten title in 1999 in his two years at Minnesota.
Gopher thrower Aubrey Schmitt (Hastings, Minn./ Hastings), who will be a senior for the 2000-2001 season, will compete in the shot put at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials, which begin July 15 in Sacramento, Calif. Schmitt is a three-time All-American in the shot put, including a sixth-place finish at last week's NCAA meet in Durham, N.C. She has won four Big Ten shot put titles in her Minnesota career, including the 2000 Big Ten outdoor championship. Minnesota junior thrower Linda Lindqvist (Aland, Finland/Vora Idrottsgymnasium), the 2000 Big Ten javelin champion, will attempt to make the Finnish Olympic team in the javelin, and Nicole Chimko (Aldersyde, Alberta/Foothills Composite) will try to make the Canadian national team in the discus and the javelin.
Minnesota swimming and diving head coach Jean Freeman will lead a group of eight Gophers to the 2000 United States Olympic Swimming Trials August 9-16 at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis. The Gophers have won the last two Big Ten swimming and diving championships. In addition to the nine swimmers listed below, graduating senior Andrea Simakova (Brno, Czech Republic) currently is the top-ranked swimmer in the Czech Republic in the 100-meter butterfly and has a chance to qualify for the Olympics in that event, as well as the 200-meter butterfly.
Name, '00-'01 Status, Events
Katy Christoferson , Senior, 200 IM, 400 IM
Amy Cottrill, Grad. Senior, 50 and 100 Free
Emily Deppe, Senior, 100 and 200 Back
Kelsey Hegener, Grad. Senior, 100 and 200 Breast
Jenny Hennen, Grad. Senior, 100 Free, 100 and 200 Fly
Terri Jashinsky, Grad. Senior, 100 and 200 Fly
Elizabeth Pierce, Senior, 100 and 200 Breast
Jinny Smedstad, Junior, 400 Free, 400 IM
