Due to the construction at the Rec Center pool in Rochester, both the Big Nine Conference and Section One, Class AA girls swimming and diving meets are being moved this season.
The Big Nine Conference Meet will be held this Friday and Saturday. The diving prelims will be held at Northfield High School and the swimming and diving finals will be Saturday at the University of St. Thomas.
"We wanted a pool that enough deck space for 12 teams, as well as a cool down pool," Mayo coach Juliet Parlettesaid. "Many pools (at schools in the Big Nine) do not meet that criteria, and the ones that do have been spoken for. The St Thomas pool is state of the art, so no one is complaining."
Mayo has won the Big Nine Meet the last two years and was undefeated in dual meets this season.
"We look to win, but it will not be a blow out like last year," Parlette said. "If we are all healthy, things should go our way. We are dealing with a few injuries at the moment."
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Parlette said Mankato West and Albert Lea could challenge the Spartans for the Big Nine title.
The Rec Center is scheduled to be open in time for the Section 1AA meet, but the coaches opted to move the meet to the Shakopee Middle School because of deck space, a cool down pool and the uncertainty of the scheduled opening.
The section prelims are Wednesday, Nov. 11 with the finals set for Friday, Nov. 13.
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Stewartville's Hannah Tapphas been named the Big Ten Conference Co-Player of the Week in volleyball.
Tapp is a junior middle blocker at the University of Minnesota. Tapp helped the Gophers to back-to-back road wins over No. 3 Nebraska and Iowa last weekend. In the two matches she had 24 kills (3.43 per set) while hitting at a .444 success rate. Against Nebraska, Tapp had a career-high 17 kills, committed just three errors in 28 attempts and hit .500. She also added four blocks. On the season, Tapp is third on the Gophers with 171 kills and 73 blocks while playing in 71 of the team's 74 sets.
Her twin sister, Paige Tapp, is also a starter for the Gophers. Paige has appeared in all 74 sets for the Gophers and leads the team with 99 blocks and is second with 187 kills.
The Gophers are currently 17-3 overall, 9-1 in the Big Ten and have moved up to No. 4 in the recent American Volleyball Coaches Association poll.
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Red Wing sisters Paigeand Reagan Haleysquared off over the weekend in Division I women's college hockey.
Paige is a junior forward-defenseman at the University of Minnesota and Reagan is a freshman forward for Minnesota Duluth.
The older sister got the better of the match-up as Paige Haley and the Gophers swept two games from Duluth to improve to 8-0 overall and 6-0 in the WCHA.
Paige Haley has appeared in all eight games for Minnesota, and has yet to score. She has a plus-three rating.
Reagan Haley has appeared in all 10 games for UMD and has one goal and one assist. The Bulldogs are currently 4-6, 2-4 in the WCHA.
Red Wing's Nicole Schammelis also part of the Minnesota program. The sophomore has to sit out this season after transferring from Minnesota State, Mankato, where she led the team in scoring a year ago.
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Rochester's Allison Schumacheris a member of the University of Minnesota women's swimming and diving team. The junior competes in butterfly and freestyle events for the Gophers.
Schumacher, a John Marshall grad, finished 30th in the 100 butterfly, 36th in the 100 freestyle and 43rd in the 50 freestyle at the Big Ten Championships during the 2014-15 season.
