Warner Finishes 12th At Open Water Trials
10/21/2007 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Rice junior Caitlin Warner finished 12th among a field of 20 competitors at the United States Women's Open Water 10K World Championship Trials Saturday (Oct. 20) in Fort Myers, Fla. Senior Brittany Massengale suffered an injury early in the competition and had to withdraw before finishing.
The top two finishers at the trials, Micha Burden of Anchorage, Ak., and Kirsten Groome of Baltimore, Md., will represent the United States at the Open Water World Championships in Spain next spring. Rice's top distance swimmers rejoin the Owls' for the team's next collegiate meet, the Phill Hansel Duals on Oct. 26-27 across town at the University of Houston.
Warner had an outstanding swim in her national team trials debut. While competing in her home state, the Clearwater, Fla., native was less than seven minutes behind Burden over the 10K open water course at the Miromar Lakes Beach and Golf Club. Warner was racing against older and more experienced open water swimmers and its fair to assume the Rice junior will get more opportunities at national-caliber meets in the future.
Massengale had already made the US national team and had been in USA Swimming's open water program for over a year. The senior from Alma, Ark., dislocated her left shoulder in the first few minutes of the race, but continued on over the next 4,000 meters before withdrawing.
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