Women's Swimming & Diving

Men and Women Finish Third At MWC Swimming Championships

Feb. 22, 2003

Complete Results

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. - Both the UNLV men's and women's swimming and diving teams finished third at the 2003 Mountain West Conference Championships on Saturday at Oklahoma City Community College.

BYU captured its fourth straight title. The Cougar men finished with 908 points, followed by Air Force (635), UNLV (591), Wyoming (547) and Utah (415). The women tallied 662 points, besting runner-up Colorado State (617.50) by 44.50 points. UNLV finished third in women's action at 574, followed by Utah (496), New Mexico (379), Air Force (329.50), Wyoming (295) and San Diego State (263).

UNLV's Raluca Udroiu set a Mountain West Conference and school record in the women's 200-yard backstroke with a NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:58.30. The previous MWC record was 1:59.91 by Udroiu in 2002.

UNLV's Jonathan Hugo and Udroiu were named men's and women's swimmer of the year, respectively.

Fifteen new Mountain West Conference records and 16 MWC championship records were established at this year's meet. New men's all-time records (eight) include the 50-yard freestyle (Jonathan Hugo {UNLV}, 19.74), 100- (Scott Usher {Wyoming}, 54.24) and 200-yard breaststroke (Scott Usher {Wyoming}, 1:58.14), 200- (Randy Belliston {BYU}, 1:47.44) and 400-yard individual medley (Randy Belliston {BYU}, 3:53.30), 800-yard freestyle relay (BYU, 6:30.99), 200- (UNLV, 1:28.85) and 400-yard medley relay (UNLV, 3:14.88).

New women's all-time records (seven) include the 100- (Raluca Udroiu {UNLV}, 54.60) and 200-yard backstroke (Raluca Udroiu {UNLV}, 1:58.30), 200- (Kristen Schneider {Colorado State}, 2:01.34) and 400-yard individual medley (Kristen Kaiser {Utah}, 4:21.22), 200- (Colorado State, 1:33.15) and 400-yard freestyle relay (Colorado State, 3:23.30) and 400-yard medley relay (UNLV, 3:44.41).

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Players Mentioned

Jonathan Hugo

Jonathan Hugo

Sprint Free/Back
6' 8"
Senior
Raluca Udroiu

Raluca Udroiu

IM/Back
5' 9"
Freshman
JR

Players Mentioned

Jonathan Hugo

Jonathan Hugo

6' 8"
Senior
Sprint Free/Back
Raluca Udroiu

Raluca Udroiu

5' 9"
Freshman
JR
IM/Back