Aug. 10, 2011

2011 World University Games Official Page

STANFORD, Calif. - The 2011 World University Games will get underway this week, covering competition in 34 sports and disciplines from Aug. 11-23 in Shenzhen, China. Stanford will be well-represented at the Games, as 26 athletes and four coaches will represent four countries over seven sports.

Current and former Cardinal athletes and coaches will participate in women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, taekwondo, men's volleyball, and men's and women's water polo.

Stanford will be represented by the following athletes, along with their national team, in the following sports:

Women's Basketball
Chiney Ogwumike '14 (USA)
Nnemkadi Ogwumike '12 (USA)

Men's Swimming
Bobby Bollier '12 (USA) - 200 fly
Curtis Lovelace '12 (USA) - 100 breast
David Mosko '11 (USA) - 400 freestyle
Matthew Swanston '13 (Canada) 50/100/200 backstrokes
Michael Zoldos '12 (Canada) - 400/800 freestyles
Geoff Cheah '12 (Hong Kong) - Events TBA
Eirik Ravnan '12 (Norway) - Events TBA

Women's Swimming
Maya DiRado '14 (USA) - 200 IM/400 IM
Kate Dwelley '11 (USA) - 100 freestyle/4 x 100 freestyle relay
Felicia Lee '14 (USA) - 100 fly/4 x 100 freestyle relay
Liz Smith '11 (USA) - 200 IM
Andie Taylor '14 (USA) - 200 fly/400 IM
Sam Woodward '12 (USA) - 50 freestyle

Taekwondo
Tim Ghormley (USA) - Head Coach
Ken Kitagawa (USA) - Assistant Coach
Reynaldo Soriano (USA) - Assistant Coach

Men's Volleyball
Brad Lawson '12 (USA)
Erik Shoji '10 (USA)
Kawika Shoji '12 (USA)

Men's Water Polo
Jeffrey Schwimer '11 (USA)
Peter Sefton '12 (USA)
Drac Wigo '10 (USA)
Janson Wigo '10 (USA)
Sage Wright '10 (USA)

Due to the time difference between the West Coast of the United States and Hong Kong (16 hours), GoStanford.com will be issuing daily updates each morning beginning Thursday, August 11. Recaps on GoStanford.com will include spoilers for events which may potentially be aired on a tape-delay basis.

Competition begins Thursday in China as the men's water polo tournament gets underway. The United States begins play against Singapore at 3 p.m. local time (9 p.m. PT Wednesday night).

Men's water polo is in Pool C of its competition along with Singapore, Serbia and France. On the women's side, the U.S. is in Pool B with Australia, France, Mexico and Russia. The U.S. women will open play Friday, Aug. 12 against Australia.

The women's basketball tournament will run from Aug. 14-21. The United States, placed in Pool D, opens play against Hungary on Sunday, Aug. 14.

The U.S. men's volleyball team will play in Pool D in preliminary play along with the Czech Republic, Mexico, Thailand, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. The competition runs from Aug. 12-22, with the U.S. opening pool play Friday, Aug. 12 against Mexico.

The swimming competition at the World University Games is set to take place from Aug. 14-19. The taekwondo program will run from Aug. 18-23.