THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. - This upcoming week the UC Santa Barbara Swim team will compete in two back-to-back meets. The first meet will kick off on Friday, Oct. 16 against BYU. The second meet will then be hosted in Long Beach on Saturday, Oct. 17 where the team will travel to compete in the MPSF Open Water Championships.

LAST TIME OUT
This past weekend both the men's and women's teams hosted a two day dual meet in Santa Barbara against Saint Mary's. The meet was held at Dos Pueblos High School and started on Friday, Oct. 9 and concluded on Saturday, Oct. 10, where the Gauchos had multiple first place finishes. 

NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
On both the men's and women's sides, the team placed first in multiple events to conclude a great meet against Saint Mary's. These events included all of the men's and women's relays consisting of the 200 yard medley, 400 yard freestyle, 400 yard medley, and 200 yard freestyle relays.

As well as taking first in both sides of the 1000 yard freestyle by Lilli Perner and Jack Hendrick, 200 yard freestyle by Callie Kowalchick and Rob Carpenter, 100 yard backstroke by CoCo Quill and Taisi Saito, 100 yard breaststroke by Miranda Stevenson and Michael Petersen, and 200 butterfly by Maeve Collins and Bryden Thielenhaus.

As well as the 500 freestyle by Melina Seider and Hendrick, 100 freestyle by Stevenson and Elek Zettle, 200 backstroke by Kayla Thompson and Saito, 100 butterfly by Caitlin Brown and Thielenhaus, and 50 freestyle by Gretta Callison.

A LOOK AHEAD
After this upcoming weekend, the Gauchos will train and prepare to travel to Riverside in November. They will compete against CBU on Friday, Nov. 9 and Saturday, Nov. 10 at Lancer Aquatics Center.