Falcons Sit In 9th Place After Day 2 Of GT Invite

Friday, November 21

Atlanta, Ga.

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Bowling Green State University

Georgia Tech Invitational

November 21, 2014 | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: by Alexx Klein, BGSU Athletic Communications

Day 2 Prelim Results
Day 2 Final Results

Atlanta, Georgia –The Bowling Green Swimming and Diving team moved up one place at the Georgia Tech Fall Invitational Friday night. Excluding relays, the Falcons had eight swimmers in final heats during evening two of the competition.

BG moved from 10th place after day one to ninth place with 209 points after day two.

The 200 yard medley relay team finished top 10 to open up Friday night's events. Maya Skorupski, Kristin Filby, Maria Galic and Victoria Griffin raced their way to a season best time of 1:44.12.

Estela Davis earned her way into another consolation final by swimming a personal best time in the 400 individual medley prelims. In the finals, she placed 12th and set yet another PR (4:23.01), swimming over two seconds faster than her prelim time. Jordan Bullock and Nicole Hranchook qualified for the non-scoring bonus finals. Hranchook swam a season PR 4:32.48 in the final swim.

In her second event of the evening, Griffin swam a season best 1:50.23 in the 200 yard freestyle. Her final time was over two seconds faster than she swam in prelims earlier this morning.

The Falcons took two spots in the championship heat of the 100 yard breaststroke. Filby and Daniela Carrillo both set PRs in the preliminary heat this morning and the duo finished ninth and 10th, respectively. Filby swam a 1:02.87 and Carrillo was two tenths of a second behind, swimming 1:03.07.

"Kristin and Daniela had good swims tonight, there were some things that they did better than this morning but also some that were a little bit off," Head Coach Petra Martin said. "Overall, I think that it was a great experience for them to be in the championship final and under a much higher pressure. It is good for them to race other very fast swimmers so that we can keep on raising our bar and working towards new goals."

Davis and Skorupski qualified for the consolation finals of the 100 backstroke, placing 13 and 14 in prelims. Skorupski swam a career best time of 56.06 in prelims. Later in the evening, Skorupski broke her own career record and finished 11th overall (55.60). Davis placed 13th with a 55.75.

BGSU divers continue to show improvement as they competed in 1-meter diving Friday morning. Rachel Perry recorded a 171.10 and Devan Hennig finished with a score of 167.90. These scores were a significant improvement from their last diving competition.

"Divers did a good job today as well, they were both doing some new dives and scored higher than before which is great to see, they are starting to gain more confidence and we are all excited for them," Martin said.

Bullock also set a season PR of 57.04 in the 100 fly prelims. In the 200 freestyle prelims, Galic, Natalie Criswell, Amanda Washko and Anna Babinec all swam season best times.

The meet concluded with the 800 yard freestyle relay, where Griffin, Davis, Galic and Newman swam a 7:36.41. The season best time earned the women an 8th place finish in the event.

"We had some great swims from a lot of our women," Martin added. "Maya's 100 back was a long time coming, she has been trying to go under 56 for a while. Estela's 400 IM tonight was a lot better and so was the 200 free for Victoria. We are excited for tomorrow."

Prelims begin at 10 a.m. Saturday with finals starting at 5 p.m.

Saturday 10 a.m. Prelims; 5 p.m. Finals
1650 yard freestyle
200 yard backstroke
100 yard freestyle
200 yard breaststroke
200 yard butterfly
400 yard freestyle relay