Kathleen Dick, Jill Fretz, Marianne Quinn, Erin Dittmar and Denise Sonntag will bid farewell to the women's swimming team at 1 p.m. tomorrow in McCoy Natatorium.

The Lady Lions' final home meet against Boston University is also Senior Day, which honors the seniors' efforts through their collegiate careers.

"To send our seniors off on a good note is one of our key goals," Coach Bob Krimmel said. "You want the day to be special for them. The experience is something different for each of them; it's hard for them to believe that this day has come."

Dick, who is completing her fifth year at Penn State, has taken the longest to reach this day. She was also honored at last year's ceremony.

"It's kind of sad for everybody," Dick said. "It tends to get a little bit emotional. Last year it got a little too sentimental. But it's fun."

Dittmar will probably not participate in the meet. She has had mono since Christmas and has missed the second half of the season.

"It's not the way you want to send a senior out," Krimmel said.

The Lady Lions are No. 1 in the East and No. 23 in the nation. The Lady Terriers are ranked 10th in the East.

Lady Terriers coach Reagh Wetmor will not make the trip. Instead, assistant coach Gretchen Ebner will travel with the team. Ebner is a former All-American and one of the greatest swimmers in BU history.

BU has a strong diving team and a few outstanding individual swimmers. But Krimmel was blunt.

"We have more depth than they do," he said.

The meet against Boston University has other implications, however. Krimmel must decide which 17 swimmers he will take to the Eastern Seaboard Championships. Not only is this the last home meet, it also marks the last meet that the team will swim as a whole. Individuals will travel to the Pittsburgh Open and the Easterns.

"This group has accomplished a lot in the dual-meet season," Krimmel said. "They deserve to have a good meet and enjoy the fruits of their efforts. If anybody said at the beginning of the season that we would be ranked No. 1 in the East at the end of the dual-meet season, I would have said they were crazy."

"We're really excited," Dick said. "We get to pick which events we want to swim. We get to swim events we normally don't get a chance to swim and to swim events we enjoy."