Sports
SCIAC Honors Athletes of Week: Pomona
Pitzer's Brown, Cal Lutheran's Friend
November 27, 2006
The SCIAC Athletes of the Week have been named and the honorees are: Pomona Pitzer's Tim Brown (men's water polo) and Cal Lutheran's Jillian Friend (women's swimming).
Pomona Pitzer: Tim Brown, Water Polo
The senior water polo player was named to the Western Water Polo
Association (WWPA) Championship 1st Team this past weekend. Brown
was the only member of the NCAA Division III to be named to the 1st
team. The senior from Hawaii led his team to victories over La
Verne and Redlands, the latter a significant triumph considering
that the Sagehens had dropped the two prior meetings to the
Bulldogs. Brown scored ! three g oals and drew three ejections
against the Bulldogs. In the tournament, the Sagehens improved upon
their 7 seed, finishing 6th overall, and pushed runner-up LMU to
the brink, falling 5-4.
Cal Lutheran: Jillian Friend, Swimming
Jillian Friend, a CLU freshman, has had two career weeks in a row
for the Regals. This weekend at the Speedo Cup Friend swam the 400
IM in a lifetime best and school record time of 4:45.94 in the
preliminaries to advance to finals. This time broke her own record
(4:48.34) that she set on Nov. 4 at the Pomona Invitational. Friend
broke the prior CLU record by nearly 11 seconds. She was the first
female swimmer from CLU to advance to an individual final at the
Speedo Cup, a meet attended by numerous Division I schools
including USC, UC Irvine, Stanford, Brigham Young and others.
Friend finished 32nd in the finals.