Another Relay, Another Win for Boise State

One thing we know for sure now--the San Antonio pool is built for speed.

Boise State won its second relay race in as many events at the Western Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championships in San Antonio and, pardon the pun, but blew their competition out of the water.  The Bronco quartet of Amber Boucher, Jennifer Cahill, Stevie Hughey and Stephanie North knocked more than 13 seconds off their season best with a blistering 7:12.91.  Unlike the earlier medley relay, Coach Kristin Hill's group was favored in this one and they did not disappoint, defeating second-place Hawai'i by nearly five seconds.  Boise State's time is eight seconds better than last year when they won the WAC title in the event.  Just like in the 200 medley relay earlier tonight, the Bronco swimmers threatened the existing WAC record.  In this longer race, the 5.78 seconds difference in Boise State's time and the WAC mark of 7:07.13 set by SMU in 2003 isn't much.

San Jose State, which was seeded second, again met their match and finished fourth.  Beginning to think there is something to the altitude theory.  Northern Arizona snuck in for third with New Mexico State touching fifth and Fresno State taking sixth.  Nevada and Idaho were disqualified and did not pick up points.

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  1 Boise State  'A'                    7:26.32    7:12.91 
     1) Boucher, Amber JR             2) Cahill, Jennifer SO         
     3) Hughey, Stevie SO             4) North, Stephanie JR


After two events, here is the scoring:

1.  Boise State 80
2.  Hawai'i 62
2.  New Mexico State 62
2.  San Jose State 62
5.  Northern Arizona 56
6.  Fresno State 50
7.  Idaho 30
8.  Nevada 22