Harris, Kain Named To Mid-Major Honorable Mention All-America Team

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- On Thursday (April 26), the website CollegeSwimming.com announced its annual Mid-Major All-American Team. Two members of the Bowling Green State University swimming team -- Alexa Harris and Alexis Kain -- have been named to the honorable mention portion of the squad.

Kain receives this honor for the second consecutive year. She began her junior season by qualifying for the 2012 United States Olympic Trials in the 100-meter breaststroke at a sectional meet in Cleveland, Ohio last July. During her junior season, Kain helped break multiple school record and earned her first medal from the Mid-American Conference Championships.

At the 2012 MAC Championships, Kain won a silver medal in the 100-yard breaststroke and shattered her own BGSU record by finishing in 1:01.61. She also won the silver medal in the 200 breaststroke with a season-best time of 2:14.06. Kain swam a career-best 0:23.87 in the 50-yard freestyle and swam the second leg for both the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relay teams, each of which set new BGSU records.

During the regular season, Kain swept the breaststroke events at the TPSC Invitational at Kenyon College and swept the events in three different dual meets. Overall, she finished first or second in all 18 breaststroke races during the 2011-12 season.

Harris is a first-time member of the Mid-Major All-American team and had her best season as a Falcon. At the MAC Championships, she posted a fourth place finish in the 200-yard backstroke by setting a new BGSU record. The new record mark is 1:58.73. Harris was just 0.26 seconds behind the bronze medalist in the event.

Harris set a new career-best time (0:56.59) in the 100-yard backstroke and a season-best time (2:05.95) in the 200-yard individual medley at the MAC Championships. She also joined Kain on the 400-yard medley relay team that set a new BGSU record by swimming the opening leg of the race.

During the regular season, Harris swam on five different winning medley relay teams and won the 200 backstroke four times. That total included a victory at the TPSC Invitational, where she also finished third in the 100 backstroke. She also won the 200 IM at BGSU's dual meet against Miami. For the entire season, Harris finished in the top three of 20 individual races.

CollegeSwimming.com has honored 24 women's swimmers as Mid-Major All-Americans and another 121 as honorable mention. Those swimmers came from a total of 14 conferences designated as mid-majors. Aside from the MAC, that list includes the America East, Atlantic Ten, Colonial Athletic Association, Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association, Horizon League, ivy League, Metro Atlantic, Mountain Pacific, Missouri Valley, Patriot League, Sun Belt, Summit League, and Western Athletic.

Any institutions that award fewer than half of the maximum-allowable scholarships are also eligible to be part of this group.

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