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Burston, Relay Shatter BGSU Records
February 28, 2009 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Feb. 28, 2009
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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - As the third night of the Mid-American Conference Women's Swimming and Diving finals came to a close, the Orange and Brown squad had set two new top BGSU records and broke five individual personal bests. Sophomore Sarah Burston set the new record in her sixth place finish in the preliminary round of the 100-yard butterfly, swimming in at 54.67; beating the previous 2008 record of 55.41. Freshman, Vicky Yu also showed a strong performance in the 400-yard IM as she raced in for a 12th place finish while also setting a new personal best time of 4:25.69.
During the 100-yard butterfly finals, Yu swam into a fifth place finish, also in 54.67. The record, however, goes to Burston as she was the first to swim the time. In the same race, Liz Harper took 14th, also setting a new personal best.
Continuing the record breaking streak was the sixth place 400-yard medley relay team of Sami Jordan, Amanda Rom, Burston and Meg Richardson, who swam in at 3:45.15. In their sixth place finish, the team shed three seconds off the previous record set in 2008.
Jordan and Yee, both seniors, each performed to their highest potential in the 100-yard backstroke. Jordan, who was also a member of the record-breaking 400-yard relay, took fourth and set a new personal best time of 55.77; only four-tenths of a second off of breaking Yee's top record in the event, set at the 2008 MACs. Yee was right behind Jordan, taking fifth with a time of 56.09.
In addition to being on the record-breaking relay, Richardson also had a strong performance in the 100-yard breaststroke, also setting a new personal best. Richardson took 16th in the race but dropped three seconds off her previous best time of 1:07.37, making her new personal best 1:04.26.
A new pool record was set in the 200-yard freestyle by Eastern Michigan University's Alissa Ricard. Ricard swam the race in 1:46. 23.
Going into the final day of the meet, the Falcons hold strong in seventh place with 199 points. The ranks are:
1 Miami University MIOH-OH 430 2 Ohio University OU-OH 398.5 3 University of Toledo UT-OH 397.5 4 Eastern Michigan EMU-MI 322.5 5 University at Buffalo UB-NI 233 6 The University of Akron AKRN-LE 226 7 Bowling Green State Univ. BGSU-OH 199 8 Ball State University BSU-IN 132.5
Catch the MAC schools in their final day of competition tomorrow, Saturday, Feb. 29. Preliminaries are set to begin at 11:00 a.m. with finals at 3:00 p.m. Tomorrow's events include the 1650-yard freestyle, the 200-yard backstroke, the 100-yard freestyle, the 200-yard breaststroke, the 200-yard butterfly, the three-meter diving competition and the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Directly after the meet, awards will be given for the ALL-MAC 1st-and-2nd Teams, the MAC Diver of the Year, the MAC Diving Coach of the Year, the MAC Swimmer of the Year, the MAC Swimming Coach of the Year and the presentation of the MAC team champion.
