RIVERSIDE, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara Men's and Women's swim take on the Cal Baptist Lancers and UNLV Rebels at the Lancer Aquatics Center this Saturday, Jan. 4. The Blue and Gold look to begin the new year by toppling two teams from the Western Athletic Conference.

LAST TIME OUT
The Gauchos performance against Hawai'i was nothing short of dominant. The Dec. 20 meet saw a pair of 96 point victories by both Santa Barbara teams. The Blue and Gold won 23 of 28 events – spearheaded by Samantha Banos (finishing in first four times) and Kyle Brill (three times).
 
ATHLETE OF THE WEEK
On Christmas Eve Samantha Banos won the Big West Women's Swimmer of the Week for her dominant performance against Cal State Bakersfield and Hawai'i. Across the two meets she won eight events to notch her first conference honor.
 
SCHEDULE
Saturday, Jan. 4 at 1 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Swimming (M&W)
Lancer Aquatics Center – Riverside, Calif.
The schedule will run as follows:
 
200 Medley Relay
1000 Freestyle
200 Freestyle
100 Backstroke
100 Breaststroke
200 Butterfly
50 Freestyle
Break
100 Freestyle
200 backstroke
200 breaststroke
500 freestyle
100 butterfly
Break
200 IM
200 Free Relay
 
SCOUTING THE FIELD
The UNLV men's team has seen recent success. They have won the WAC Swimming and Diving Championship four years in a row. Daniel Nicusan recently took home WAC Swimmer of the Week. 
 
Cal Baptist and UC Santa Barbara met at the Trailblazer Invite in November. Both Gaucho teams finished comfortably above the Lancers after three days of competition.