University of Minnesota Athletics
Minnesota Continues March at NCAA Men's Swimming Championships
3/30/2002 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving
Chris Forrest, who is celebrating his 22nd birthday on Saturday, advanced to the consolation final for the Golden Gophers, swimming a 1:58.59, while Texas' Brendan Hansen swam the fastest preliminary time, posting a pool record time of 1:54.18.
Minnesota freshman Terry Silkaitis, who anchored the Gopher 200- and 400-yard third place medley relay teams, swam a personal-best 43.57 to place 15th in the 100-yard freestyle preliminaries, advancing to the consolation final. Silkaitis' time was the second fastest in school history and broke his own freshman school record. Bengt Zikarsky holds the school varsity record (43.48), set in 1990.
The Gopher 400-yard freestyle relay team of Silkaitis, Matt Taylor, Todd Smolinski and Allen Ong swam a 2:56.24 to place 12th in preliminaries, advancing to the consolation final.
Saturday night's finals will begin at 5:07 p.m., with the finals of the 1,650-yard freestyle. Minnesota All-American Justin Mortimer enters the race with the nation's 11th fastest time. The Gophers stand in sixth place with 166.5 points, just a half point ahead of California. Texas leads the meet with 376 points, followed by Stanford with 361 points.
2002 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships: Saturday's Minnesota Preliminary Results: Event Time Place 100-yard backstroke Smolinski 1:45.17 18 Bartell 1:46.06 22 Urreta 1:47.20 29 100-yard freestyle Silkaitis 43.57 15 Ong 44.39 32 Gettelfinger 44.82 40 200-yard breaststroke Hackler 1:56.29 4 Forrest 1:58.59 14 200-yard butterfly Krastins 1:47.09 t24 Taylor 1:47.09 t24 400-yard freestyle relay 2:56.24 12 (Silkaitis, Taylor, Smolinski, Ong,)
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