TYR Invite (Northwestern) - Day One

NORTHWESTERN WOMEN

Behind a pair of pool-record performances, Northwestern built a huge advantage
after the first day of the three-day TYR Invitational at the Norris Aquatics Center.

The Wildcats have 414 points to lead the six-time field, 198 points better than second-place Iowa
State (216). Michigan State is third with 208 points, Cleveland State is fourth with 116, Kenyon
College is fifth with 98 and Illinois-Chicago is sixth with 66.

Northwestern got Friday's finals session off to a record-breaking start when the 200 free relay
team of Emily Wong (Nepean, Ontario/St. Joseph's), Teisha Lightbourne (Nassau, Bahamas/Peddie
School (N.J.), Alex Kraus (Birmingham, Ala./Vestavia Hills) and Taylor Reynolds (St. Louis,
Mo./Webster Groves) won the event with a pool-record and NCAA `B' provisional qualifying time of
1:31.92. The result bested the old mark of 1:32.66 set by the Wildcats in the year 2000.

Jenny Wilson (Bethesda, Md./Sidwell Friends School) finished in a dead-heat for second place in the
championship final of the 50 breast to earn 16.5 points for the Wildcats. Her time of 29.41 matched
Kerry Sodonis from Michigan State. Also in the `A' final for NU were Kathleen Patterson
(Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley) in fifth, Lightbourne in sixth and Marybeth Hall (Brighton,
Mich./Brighton) in seventh.

Katherine McCullough (Grand Rapids, Mich./Forest Hills Central) and Jacquie Godbe (Rapid City,
S.D./Stevens) took 1-2 in the consolation final of the 50 breast.

Senior Kassia Shishkoff (Raleigh, N.C./St. David's School) nearly took down the pool record in the
500 free, breaking away from the field at the end to win the event with an NCAA `B' cut of 4:48.97,
just .33 of a second away from the 12-year-old pool mark. Freshman Meredith King (Louisville,
Ky./DuPont Manual) was second with a 4:52.69, while Ellen Grigg (Charlotte, N.C./Charlotte Latin
School) took fourth for the 'Cats in 4:56.25.

In the 500 free consolation final, Beth Loe (Upper Arlington, Ohio/Upper Arlington), Sheila O'Neill
(Dunwoody, Ga./Marist School) and Jenn Kocsis (Omaha, Neb./Marian) swept the top three positions to
give NU a 90.5 point cushion over second-place Iowa State after just three events. Loe's time of
4:53.24 beat the field by 7.59 seconds and would have placed her third in the championship heat.

Patterson took second to lead the NU charge in the 200 IM, coming in with a time of 2:04.13 to
out-touch teammate Godbe by the slimmest of margins, .01 of a second. Hannah Points (Tualatin,
Ore./Tualatin) in seventh and Hall in eighth also swam in the championship final for NU.

In the 200 IM consolation heat, Meaghan Fenn (New Rochelle, N.Y./The Ursuline School) topped the
field in 2:07.08.

Wong won the 50 free in 22.79, .02 of a second off her pool-record performance of 22.77 in the
morning's preliminary heats. Earlier while leading off the evening's 200 free relay Wong showed
she's nothing if not consistent by splitting a 22.78. All three of those efforts are NCAA `B'
standards. Reynolds came in fourth, Lightbourne fifth and Kraus tied for sixth in the championship
final of the 50 free for NU.

Wong then put an exclamation point on a fantastic day of swimming by anchoring the 400 medley relay
to a win with a time of 3:43.28. With Northwestern trailing entering the final leg, Wong split a
49.15, 2.45 seconds faster than Iowa State's anchor leg to reel in the Cyclones and win the event.
Wong was joined on the relay by Liza Engstrom (Reno, Nev./Robert McQueen), Wilson and Meghan
Cavanaugh (Anchorage, Alaska/East Anchorage).

In day one diving action, reigning Big Ten Diver of the Week Felicitas Lenz (Altadena,
Calif./Polytechnic School) won the 3-meter springboard with a 301.10, more than 18 points better
than her nearest competitor. Carlin Dacey (West Roxbury, Mass./Choate Rosemary Hall) and Tania
Lyerly (Libertyville, Ill./Libertyville) earned fourth- and fifth-place points, respectively.

Day two of the TYR Invitational continues tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 21, with preliminary heats at 10
a.m. and finals at 5 p.m.

NORTHWESTERN MEN

Northwestern is in second place in the six-team field at the TYR Invitational
after Friday's action, the first of three days in the meet hosted by the Wildcats at the Norris
Aquatics Center.

Michigan State leads after day one with 265 points, 43 points better than Northwestern (222) in
second. Kenyon is third with 171 points, Cleveland State is fourth with 155, a split squad from
Michigan is fifth with 153 and Illinois-Chicago is sixth with 141 points.

The 30-time defending NCAA Division III champion Kenyon Lords won the 200 free relay to begin
Friday night's finals session with Northwestern's team of Sean Mathews (St. Louis, Mo./Lafayette),
Brian Kerr (East Grand Rapids, Mich./East Grand Rapids), Alex Tyler (Birmingham, Mich./Birmingham
Groves) and Alex Ratajczyk (Parlin, N.J./Sayreville War Memorial) taking second in 1:22.85.

In the first individual event, Nathan Butler (Cincinnati, Ohio/Turpin) was the Wildcats' top
finisher with a seventh-place effort in the championship heat, turning in a 26.32. He was the lone
Wildcat in the scoring finals of the event.

Peter Park (Princeton, N.J./Peddie School) punctuated his first place in the 500 free with a
jubilant finger point after leading nearly start to finish to touch the wall in 4:28.70. The time
shaved nearly four full seconds off his lifetime best. Teammate Charlie Rimkus (Tustin,
Calif./Beckman) came in third in the `A' final with a season-best time of 4:32.38. The 1-3 finished
vaulted NU from fifth place entering the event into third.

In the non-scoring bonus final of the 500 free, John Frutiger (Alma, Mich./Alma), Tony Mattar (Lake
Orion, Mich./Lake Orion) and Jan Hanulik (Cavisov, Czech Republic/Sportovni Gymnazium) swept the
top three spots.

Tyler blasted the field in the 200 IM by more than three seconds to win in NCAA `B' provisional
qualifying fashion with a 1:48.05. He was followed by teammates Mathews in third with a 1:51.85,
Rimkus in fifth with a 1:53.34 and Park in sixth with a 1:54.78.

Frutiger won the consolation final with a 1:55.18, while Hanulik (13th) and Butler (16th) also
scored points in the `B' heat for NU. The performance vaulted the 'Cats into second in the team
standings, 12 points behind leader Michigan State.

Mathews was the top NU scorer in the 50 free, placing eighth in the championship heat with a 22.39
after turning a 21.14 in the prelims. Earlier in the meet, Mathews swam a 20.54 leadoff for the
second-place 200 free relay. Kerr took 14th-place points with a sixth-place effort in the
consolation final. Those two represented NU's only competitors in the Friday finals of the 50 free.

Northwestern closed out the day Friday with a third-place finish in the 400 medley relay, getting a
3:23.85 from Varun Shivakumar (Hoffman Estates, Ill./Fremd), Tyler, Mathews and Kerr.

In day one diving action, Kalister Harmon (Olympia, Wash./Capital) earned second-place points with
a score of 264.85 on the 1-meter board.

Day two of the TYR Invitational continues tomorrow, Saturday, Nov. 21, with preliminary heats at 10
a.m. and finals at 5 p.m.