Oct. 14, 2005
Stanford, Calif. - Stanford (1-0) cruised to a 199-94 victory over San Jose State (0-1) in a season-opening non-conference swim meet for both teams at the Avery Aquatics Center on Friday. Stanford won 12 of the first 14 events contested before swimming exhibition in the final two events to give first-year head coach and former Cardinal swimmer Lea Maurer a victory in her collegiate coaching debut. The victory was also Stanford's seventh consecutive dual meet win.
Brooke Bishop (200 back, 2:00.45; 200 free, 1:50.20), Morgan Hentzen (500 free, 4:57.80; 1000 free, 9:59.84), Cassidy Krug (1-meter, 192.80; 3-meter, 185.65), Erica Liu (100 breast, 1:04.71; 200 breast, 2:19.18) and Laura Wadden (100 fly, 56.87; 200 fly, 2:04.62) were all two-time individual event winners for the Cardinal. Bishop put up two of the three NCAA times of the day, reaching the "B" qualifying standard in both of her events.
Caroline Rodriguez (100 back, 56.67) added one individual win for the Cardinal.
Stanford also captured the meet-opening 200 medley relay in a time of 1:45.16 with a team of Andrea Axtell, Liu, Wadden and Bishop.Brie Marhenke swept the 50 (24.05) and 100 (52.94) free for the Spartans.
With the Cardinal swimming exhibition in the final two events, San Jose State's Alli Adams was the winner of the 200 IM (2:13.37) while a foursome of China Cho, Lauren Mar, Sarah Colvin and Brie Marhenke captured the 200 free relay (1:37.55).
Dana Kirk had the third and final NCAA "B" mark of the day (2:04.17) with the top time in the 200 fly as an exhibition swimmer.
Stanford's "A" team of Liu, Bishop, Fiona Gispen and Durot swam as an exhibition squad in the 200 free relay, just edging out the Spartans' official winners by eight hundredths of a second with a time of 1:37.49.
Liu, Gispen, Rodriguez and Wadden all won for the first time in their collegiate careers.
Stanford will continue a busy October at the Avery Aquatic Center by hosting its Alumnae on Saturday, October 22 (10 am, PT). Perennial national power Texas visits the Cardinal for a two day meet Friday-Saturday, October 28-29 (1 pm, PT/TBA).