Owls Off to Fast Start at Sun Belt Championships

Thursday, February 15

New Orleans, LA.

All Day

Florida Atlantic

Sun Belt Conference Championships

2/15/2007 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving

Feb. 15, 2007

Final Stats

The Florida Atlantic University's swimming and diving teams got off to a fast start and the women lead after the first day of competition at the Sun Belt Championships. Lauren Shue, Lindsey Alexander and the 400 medley relay team of Alexander, Ellie Weberg, Jennifer Forcht and Bianca Murphy all won events. On the men's side Eren Onurlu broke the school and Sun Belt record in the 50 free.

Shue started the individual events by posting a Sun Belt record in the 500 free. Her time of 4:51.55 is an NCAA `B' cut time. The Owls picked up four of the top five spots in the event as Jenny Harms, Brittany Fabry and Shawna Griffith rounded out the top five.

Alexander also earned an NCAA consideration time of 2:03.72 in the 200 IM to win the event.

In the preliminaries on Thursday morning, Onurlu broke the FAU school record and his own Sun Belt record with a time of 20.17. He returned for the night session and won the event with an NCAA `B' cut time of 20.16 to pick up 20 points for the men.

The FAU women added to their point total by winning the 400 medley relay in a time of 3:46.29. The time broke the old Sun Belt record that was set in 2006.

The three-day event will continue through Saturday as the women try to defend their 2006 conference title.

Scores
Women
FAU - 242.5
Western Kentucky - 187.5
Denver - 159
North Texas - 117
Florida International - 71
New Orleans - 68
Arkansas-Little Rock - 48

Men
Western Kentucky - 182
Southern Illinois - 178
Missouri State - 164
Denver - 144
FAU - 79
Evansville - 61