Day One Concludes At GT Invite

Thursday, November 20

Atlanta, Ga.

TBA

Bowling Green State University

Georgia Tech Invitational

November 20, 2014 | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: by Alexx Klein, BGSU Athletic Communications

Day 1 Final Results (.pdf)

Atlanta, Georgia – The Bowling Green State University swimming and diving team currently sit in 10th place at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational, as the Falcons opened day one of competition Thursday. BGSU finished the first day of the meet with 85 points.

"We had a pretty solid first day, and are excited about several in season best times," Head Coach Petra Martin said. "I also like the fact that we were able to make improvements from this morning and get faster tonight. This is a very fast meet and so far we are doing what we need to as far as competitiveness, focus, sticking together as a team and responding well to a very different environment for us."

Following the morning prelim sessions, the evening began with the 200 freestyle relay. Bowling Green's team of Victoria Griffin, Sadie Ahlers, Maya Skorupski and Hannah Newman swam a season best time of 1:35.28.

Although they did not qualify for the final heats, Natalie Criswell and Hannah Albion both set personal bests in the 500 freestyle. Criswell swam a 5:06.98 and Albion beat her last season's PR by three seconds, finishing with a 5:08.90.

Estela Davis continued her strong start to the season, qualifying for the consolation final and placing 13th overall in the 200 individual medley finals. Jordan Bullock finished in 20th place and was followed by Kristin Filby in 24th in the non-scoring bonus finals heat. Both swimmers set season personal best times.

In her second race of the night, Griffin finished 15th in the consolation finals in the 50 freestyle with a season PR of 23.27.

Competing in 3-meter diving, Rachel Perry set a career high score of 159.20. Her previous best score was 140.05. Devan Hennig also competed for BGSU.

The 400 medley relay team of Ortiz, Filby, Bullock and Griffin qualified for the championship heat. The team finished fifth overall in the finals and swam a season best time of 3:43.57 to wrap up day one competition.

"The 400 Medley relay did a great job this evening as well," Martin said. "We were happy about the 5th place, but I know that with some more tweaks we can be even faster."

The Falcons return to the pool tomorrow for morning prelims at 10 a.m. with finals following that evening at 6 p.m.

Friday 10 a.m. Prelims; 6 p.m. Finals
200 yard medley relay
400 yard IM
100 yard butterfly
200 yard freestyle
100 yard breaststroke
100 yard backstroke
Women's 1m Diving
800 yard freestyle relay