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Top U.S. swimmers will compete at U

  • Updated: October 31, 2007 - 9:39 PM

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Several of the U.S.'s best swimmers, including world record holder Kate Ziegler and Olympic medalists Erik Vendt and Kaitlin Sandeno, will compete in the Minnesota/Toyota Swimming Grand Prix Nov. 9-11 at the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center.

The meet is the first in the seven-event Toyota Grand Prix series. Many of the competitors are preparing for this summer's U.S. Olympic trials and the Summer Olympics and Paralympics in Beijing.

Ziegler broke the longest-standing world record in swimming last June when she swam the 1,500-meter freestyle in 15 minutes, 42.54 seconds, surpassing Janet Evans' mark set in 1988. Sandeno won three medals, including a relay gold, at the 2004 Olympics. Vendt is a two-time silver medalist in the 400 individual medley.

Preliminaries are at 9 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m. each day. Admission is $6.

Gophers win in volleyball

The Gophers volleyball team (13-10, 6-7) ended a seven-match losing streak with a three-game victory over Iowa (9-15, 1-12) by scores of 30-20, 30-27, 30-25 on Wednesday at the Sports Pavilion.

Lauren Gibbemeyer and Katie Vatterrodt had 14 kills apiece for Minnesota. Gibbemeyer also had 11 digs and five blocks. Vatterrodt also had six digs and three blocks. Senior middle blocker Jessy Jones hit .409 (12-3-22) with 12 kills and also had five blocks. Brook Dieter had nine kills, 10 blocks and three blocks.

Junior setter Rachel Hartmann had 46 assists and five blocks and sophomore libero Christine Tan had 17 digs.

MIAC soccer

St. Olaf upset MIAC regular-season co-champion Carleton 1-0 and Gustavus held off St. Thomas 2-1 to earn spots in the MIAC playoffs championship match.

Nate Swenson scored a first-half goal to lift the Oles to victory in Northfield. In St. Peter, Mike Butterworth's goal at the 87:40 mark gave the Gusties the victory.

Fourth-seeded St. Olaf (11-8, 6-4 MIAC) will travel to play No. 2 seed Gustavus (15-3-1, 9-1 MIAC) at 1 p.m. Saturday. The winner will earn the MIAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Championships.

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