ISU’s Kim Reid overcame a nagging injury and a rare case of “butterflies” last Friday to capture her second straight 100-yard breaststroke championship at the Big 12 women’s swimming and diving championships in Austin, Texas.

“I was pretty excited; I think it was the first time I’ve ever been nervous before a race,” Reid said. “I’ve never been one to think about it much, but when they announced I won it last year I got real nervous. My parents were looking at me up in the stands and my dad said, ‘you look pretty stiff out there,’ and I guess it finally hit.”

Reid won the race in a school-record time of 1:02.46 despite a stress fracture in her left femur. She said the fracture first appeared over a year ago and had been hurting for at least a month.

Duane Sorenson, ISU head women’s swimming coach, said Reid did an excellent job in overcoming the adversity.

“[The] stress fracture has been bothering her for the last six weeks, and she basically blocked the pain out so it wouldn’t be a hindrance,” Sorenson said.

Reid said determination was the driving force in her performance.

“I just wanted it more,” she said. “It’s all about the mental stuff. I’m a big believer in that. I knew if I wanted it bad enough, I could do it.”

The Big 12 championships were held Thursday through Saturday, and despite Reid’s sterling personal effort, ISU finished last with 250 points.

The Cyclones did manage to top last year’s point total of 224, though, and Sorenson said they showed great strides. He said he is happy with his team’s effort and the attitude they displayed throughout the meet.

“I was extremely pleased with the performance of all my swimmers and divers, the entire team was swimming to personal best times left and right,” he said. “We had a tremendous amount of enthusiasm and spirit, everybody [was] supportive of each other.”

Some of the top Cyclone performers joining Reid were Marie-Eve Tremblay in the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke events, Jodel Fesenmaier in both the 100-yard backstroke and 100-yard freestyle and A-Lisa Miles in the 200 and 400-yard individual medley races.

Tremblay placed fifth in the 100 breaststroke and sixth in the 200 with times of 1:04.23 and 2:19.18, respectively.

Fesenmaier placed 13th in both the 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle, clocking in times of :58.36 and :51.98.

Cyclone swimmer Kelly Lorenz edged out Fesenmaier in the 100-meter backstroke, placing 12th at :58.14.

Miles recorded a season-best time of 2:08.77 in the 200 individual medley and placed 13th in the 400 individual medley with a school-record time of 4:33.03.

The Cyclone divers also made a solid showing, led by Erin Cowan who set a personal best mark in the 1-meter dive with an eighth place score of 341.30.

Jeff Warrick, head ISU diving coach, said he was pleased with how his divers performed, and that he was “especially proud” of Thea Hoeg and Jennifer Maupin for performing platform dives because they were the first people to do it at ISU.

Cowan and Allison Wagoner will both be representing ISU at the NCAA Zone 5 qualifying meet in Fayetteville, Arkansas March 12-13.

Warrick said Cowan and Wagoner will both continue to work on consistency in preparation for the meet. He also stressed the importance of getting Wagoner recovered from an injury she suffered just before the Big 12 meet.

“Allison was injured before the [Big 12] meet [and] our number one priority is to get her back to normal,” Warrick said.