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Swimmers treading in friendly waters at Pac-10s

By Daily Bruin Staff

Feb. 14, 1996 9:00 p.m.

Swimmers treading in friendly waters at Pac-10s

Young team hopes to upend perennial favorite Stanford

By A. CinQue Carter

Daily Bruin Contributor

UCLA will host the 1996 Pacific 10 Championships at the Belmont
Plaza Olympic Pool in Long Beach, today through Saturday.
Preliminaries begin at 11 a.m. each day, with finals starting at 6
p.m.

"Since this is the biggest meet of the season for the entire
team, everyone is swimming in three events – one event each day,"
UCLA head coach Cyndi Gallagher said. "And also, some people are
swimming in exhibition events just to get times."

Freshmen Emmanuelle Schick and Amanda Hall will be swimming the
200- and 400-yard individual medley along with the 200 backstroke.
Hall may compete in the 100 back as well.

Sophomore Cindy Bertelink will swim in the 500 and 1650
freestyle, in addition to the 400 IM.

Sophomore Jill Jenkins will be looking to better her NCAA
qualifying times in the 100 and 200 back and the 100 free.

Sophomore Lindsay Etter will join Hall and Schick in the 200 IM,
while also taking on the 100 and 200 breaststroke (Etter has
already qualified for the NCAAs in both events).

Senior Annette Salmeen will try to continue her domination of
the 100 and 200 butterfly and the 500 free. Salmeen, having already
qualified in all three events, will look to lead the Bruins in
their attempt to dethrone Stanford.

The Cardinal has won the Pac-10 championship nine years running,
and has taken the national championship in the last four years. In
each of Gallagher’s previous seven years, UCLA has finished in the
top 10 nationally.

The relay teams still need to qualify for the NCAAs or be in the
top 12 teams nationally.

"Who will swim the relays will be the faster swimmers at the
Pac-10s," Gallagher said. "Who they are, I will find out. Because
relays score double points at Pac-10s and NCAAs, it is very
important we have four fast people swimming in them."

"I’m excited for the whole team," Etter said of the approaching
conference championships. "I think we’re gonna go really fast. It’s
the freshmen’s first Pac-10, and we have a great Pac-10 team, as a
whole."

UCLA has never finished below fourth place at the conference
championships and is looking for its fourth top-two finish in six
years. Ranked 10th in the nation, the Bruins are 4-3 in dual meets
this year.

"(We’re) a really good Pac-10 team," Gallagher said. "It’s also
gonna be fun because we host and get to make the most noise."

SUSIE CHU / Daily Bruin

Sophomore Lindsay Etter guns for conference titles at the Pac-10
Championships, which began today in Long Beach.

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