Action Starts at the WU Natatorium on Friday, Oct. 31 at 5 p.m.
SALEM, ORE. -- Willamette University will host the Northwest Conference Relays in men's and women's swimming on Friday, Oct. 31 at the WU Natatorium. The competition is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m. (PDT).
You can watch Live Video courtesy of Willamette Athletics. Evan Giddings will provide commentary for the webcast.
The NWC Relays will involve a series of women's relay events, men's relay events and coed relays. Each college or university is allowed on scoring relay per event. All other relay teams will be exhibition. The exhibition heats will be held prior to each scoring event.
Each event will be scored on a 7-5-4-3-2-1 system. The final standings will be combined total for each team of all points scored in women's, men's and coed events.
The NWC Relays will begin the 2014-15 season for the Bearcats. Men's team captains this year are Zander Le Bel (Sr., Dallas, TX/Richardson HS) and Andrew Lum (Jr., Honolulu, HI/Punahou School). Women's team captains are Leah Freeborn (Jr., Federal Way, WA/Todd Beamer HS) and Malia Santos (Jr., Kailua-Kona, HI/Kealakehe HS).
Willamette's swimming teams will continue the opening weekend at the NWC Sprint Pentathlon on Saturday, Nov. 1. The meet will be hosted by Linfield College in McMinnville, Ore., with the first event slated to get underway at 11 a.m. (PDT). Swimmers at the pentathlon will be able to compete in the 100-yard individual medley as well as 50-yard races in all four strokes.
NWC Relays
Order of Events
RACE EVENT
1 Coed 200-yard Medley Relay (4 x 50)
2 Womens 300-yard Butterfly Relay (3 x 100)
3 Mens 300-yard Butterfly Relay (3 x 100)
4 Womens 300-yard Backstroke Relay (3 x 100)
5 Mens 300-yard Backstroke Relay (3 x 100)
Break 15 minutes
6 Womens 300-yard Breaststroke Relay (3 x 100)
7 Mens 300-yard Breaststroke Relay (3 x 100)
8 Womens 600-yard Freestyle Relay (3 x 200)
9 Mens 600-yard Freestyle Relay (3 x 200)
10 Coed 200-yard Freestyle Relay (4 x 50)
Break 15 minutes
11 Womens 300-yard Individual Medley Relay (3 x 100)
12 Mens 300-yard Individual Medley Relay (3 x 100)
13 Coed 400-yard Freestyle Relay (4 x 100)
MULTIMEDIA
Live Video of the NWC Relays
Senior Zander Le Bel is one of four team captains for the Bearcats this year. Other team captains are juniors Andrew Lum, Leah Freeborn and Malia Santos.
