2004 Conference USA Swimming Championships University of Louisville

These photos are from the Friday and Saturday sessions at the 2004 Conference meet, emphasizing U of L's participation.

Something interesting happened on the way to the meet. I discovered I had forgotten my camera battery charger. It remained at home.

Therefore, I decided that on Friday I would take photos only during the finals session to ensure I had something left for Saturday. Sorry if I missed getting a shot of your favorite swimmer! On Saturday I found I was doing okay and once again became freer taking lots of photos.

I don't recall names too well. Sorry, haven't been to too many meets because I live in Colorado. So I'm afraid you'll have to peruse through some these pictures looking for your swimmer, hope that's ok.

Here are the particulars of the photos presented here.

• All taken with a Canon EOS Digital Rebel, most with a 75-300mm zoom. (Unfortunately, with the light available, this is a tenuous way to work!)
• If I had a blurred shot I still wanted to include because of its content value, I lowered its resolution to save disk space. Magnify these in order to see them full-size if necessary. Some are cropped as well to better capture the subject. The full-size photos are about 300K.
• If I happened to get what I considered a really good quality shot -- in focus, good subject, interesting to the audience (your mileage may vary :) -- it is presented not only as a compressed JPEG but also in raw JPEG format (over 2MB in size) for highest resolution. These are marked [Large].
• These photos are presented in chronological order, by column. They include photos from Friday and Saturday preliminaries and finals sessions.

fri wrelay behind blocks fri wrelay 2 fri mrelay fri start fri wrelay award fri wrelay stand fri mrelay award fri mrelay stand fri on deck a fri swim behind blocks award award award Meng IM start Meng IM back   [Large] Meng IM breast Meng award another award proud momma   [Large] Artur + Meg   [Large] warmup Meg Relay Meg flyer wrelay blurred medley relay take your mark 4 UofL gettin ready   [Large] concentration   [Large]

more flyin fly award i think bronze intensity   [Large] hard to photo a start not enough light diver on the bus another relay prep cap on   [Large] take your mark sat lunch Travis pushes miler impressive diving facility the venue warmup area cheering section miles in progress seniors seniors seniors seniors seniors Christian wins mile (friend of Meg's) Christian justifiably winded Christian scoreboard Christian award Christian award

Niehoff back Meng in 2breast Meng on top (board) Meng blurred Nicolletta fly Nicolletta top consols (board) Thompson fly Thompson fly 4 fly finalists 4 flyers strong UL board flyers rejoice (also McLachlan) Meg ready for relay wait for it Meg final event Ihara award Ihara award is this divers wrelay award wrelay award blur wrelay award wrelay award mrelay award Sean diver of meet Group   [Large] Group   [Large] Restaurant