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Falcons Finish Sixth at OSU Invitational
December 07, 2008 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Dec. 7, 2008
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - As the weekend-long OSU Invitational came to an end, BGSU held on tight to sixth place position with 243 points out of the 11 competing schools in attendance.
Taking top honors was Minnesota with 1,271 points, more than 400 points over the second place contender. Penn State, Notre Dame, Ohio State and Miami (FL.) finished second, third, fourth and fifth respectively. With the Falcons in sixth, Purdue, Indiana, Duke, North Carolina State and South Carolina rounded out the bottom half of the competition.
Sophomore, Carrie Enright set a new personal best in the 100-yard freestyle, finishing 22nd with a time of 52.59, beating her previous time of 53.13. Adding to the Falcons efforts were Megan Bomicino, Chelsea Kazmierski and Jessica Lewis in the 1650 finishing 14th, 19th and 20th.
Also scoring for the Falcons were seniors Alisha Yee and Sami Jordan who finished 12th and 16th in the 200-yard backstroke. Yee finished with a time of 2:02.95 and Jordan at 2:07.70. Yee currently secures the top time in BGSU's top ten times while Jordan takes third.
Freshman, Vicky Yu also had a strong swim in the 200-yard butterfly. Kicking into the wall, Yu finished strong in ninth place with a time of 2:02.02.
The final relay of the Invitational proved again how strong the Falcon relays are. The Orange and Brown team of Richardson, Yee, Jordan and Sarah Burston took ninth in the 400-yard freestyle relay, while teammates Enright, Yu, Sarah Reinink and Frankie Houck finished 11th.
Other notable swims in today's events were Amanda Rom, Katie Womack and Meg Richardson in the 200-yard breaststroke; Kristen Tetuan in the 200 back; and Liz Harper in the 200 fly.
Throughout the weekend the swimming and diving Falcons secured nine top fifteen places in individual events and 11 top fifteen places in relays while three girls set new personal bests.
"Our success at this meet has made us hungry for more," said head coach Keri Buff. "It has given our women confidence, focus and drive to step up our training for the next 11 weeks, go to MACs and throw down."
The Falcons are now headed into the hardest part of their training. They will return to the pool after the New Year on January 3, 2009 in Coral Springs, Fla., for the Coral Springs Invitational.
