Bowling Green State University Athletics
Falcons Continue to Climb in Mid-Major Poll
February 14, 2006 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Feb. 14, 2006
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - After starting the year with a 13th ranking and 221.82 points, the swimming and diving program have continued to climb through the ranks of the Collegeswimming.com and are among the Top 10 mid-major programs. The 9th ranked Falcons broke into the latest Top 10 after being edged out by .51 of a point by Mid-American Conference rival Toledo in December.
Harvard University held on to their previous No. 1 position, yet Missouri State overtook the RedHawks of Miami for the second ranking. Currently four MAC programs occupy four Top 10 positions.
Bowling Green ended their regular season with a loss to No. 3 Miami and is now preparing for the conference championships, which will be held February 23-25 at Akron University.
The Power Rankings are a relative indication of a team's strength in dual meets. The mid-major support institutions that do not benefit from large football and basketball television agreements and are based on each team's best dual meet lineup as judged and submitted by participating teams. Below is a list of the complete Women's Power Rankings:
1 Harvard University (244.7) 2 Missouri State (formerly Sw Missouri St.) (237.81) 3 Miami University (Ohio) (237.11) 4 California-Irvine, University of (236.25) 5 Maryland, Baltimore County, University of (235.99) 6 Eastern Michigan University (235.98) 7 Denver, University of (232.73) 8 Akron, University of (231.65) 9 Bowling Green State University (231.4) 10 Western Kentucky University (231.3) 11 Oakland University (230.86) 12 North Carolina, Wilmington, University of (230.84) 13 Toledo, University of (230.58) 14 U.S. Naval Academy (Navy) (229.79) 15 Richmond, University of (229.76) 16 Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of (228.81) 17 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (228.68) 18 New Hampshire, University of (227.83) 19 Illinois State University (227.3) 20 Saint Louis University (226.14) 21 William and Mary, College of (225.55) 22 Bucknell University (224.7) 23 James Madison University (224.57) 24 Delaware, University of (224.38) 25 Colgate University (222.89)
