Falcons Return To Cooper Pool For Dual Meet With Miami

Friday, January 22

Bowling Green, Ohio

3:00pm ET

Bowling Green State University

Miami University (OH)

January 20, 2016 | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: by Scott Swegan, BGSU Athletic Communications

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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio—The Bowling Green State University swimming and diving program returns to Cooper Pool on Friday afternoon for a dual meet against the Miami RedHawks. The meet will begin at 3:00 pm. The Falcons, who last competed in the Zippy Invitational in early December, are back at home for the first time since their dual meet win against Ohio on Oct. 24. BGSU will host two of their final three meets before hosting the Mid-American Conference Championships at Cooper Pool Feb. 24-27.

About Miami
Miami enters Friday's meet with a 4-3 record in 2015-16 during dual meet season. They are coming off a 178-118 win against Cincinnati last Wednesday (Jan. 13). Mark Davis is the head coach of the RedHawks. He is in his third season as head coach after spending six seasons as an assistant coach. Last season at the MAC Championships, Miami finished fifth.

Schedule Of Events
400 Medley Relay
1000 Free
200 Free
100 Back
100 Breast
200 Fly
50 Free
3 Meter Dive
100 Free
200 Back
200 Breast
500 Free
100 Fly
1 Meter Dive
200 IM
400 Free Relay

Falcons Post 3.625 GPA In Fall Semester
Between the 29 student-athletes comprising the Falcons' swimming and diving program, the team compiled an astonishing fall semester grade-point average of 3.625. Ten individuals had perfect 4.0 GPAs – Kayla Effinger, Maria Galic, Nicole Hranchook, Kalinka Mogensen, Anna Paccapaniccia, Emily Ridge, Claire Stam, Christin Swanepoel-Stevens, Emily Verbrugge and Ashley White.

Griffin Qualifies For USA Olympic Trials
With Olympic Trials coming up next summer, the Bowling Green State University swimming and diving program swam in a long course dual meet at University of Akron on the afternoon of Dec. 7 following the three-day Zippy Invitational. The meet was designed to give swimmers an opportunity to qualify for USA Olympic Trials next summer. One Falcon swimmer did just that, as Victoria Griffin punched her ticket to next summer's event in Omaha, Neb. The story of the day was Griffin, a junior from Littlestown, Pa. On the last swim of the first session, she swam a 26.21 in the 50 free to just miss the cut mark of 26.19. But, she had the chance for redemption just 30 minutes later and put up a 26.00 to punch her ticket to next summer's USA Olympic Trials.

Training Trip
Over the winter break, the swimming and diving program spent 10 days in Florida for winter training camp. After dropping the divers off for their training in Orlando, Fla., the swimmers continued on to Naples and arrived on Dec. 31. The Orange and Brown completed eight days in Naples of intense training, team bonding, community service, and more.

One of the most rewarding things about the trip for the swimmers was volunteering at Grace Place in Naples, Fla. Grace Place is an organization that provides a pathway out of poverty by educating children and families in Naples. They offer after school programs, daycare, and night classes for adults and children. The team went there to help the volunteers spread safety mulch on their playground. During the day full of volunteering, the team helped spread 840 bags of mulch on a local playground.

Outside of diving, the members of the diving team spent time enjoying Orlando and volunteering at the local YMCA. Each day consisted of 4+ hours of diving and a rigorous workout schedule. After several days of hard work and new dives the team went to Disney World's Magic Kingdom. They also found opportunities to volunteer, taking an afternoon after workout to help the staff clean up and Coach Alex Gauvin gave the maintenance staff a few pointers on how to maintain their diving boards in the humid Florida weather.

During the trip, sophomore Natalie Criswell filed a daily blog following each day. That blog can be accessed at BGSUFalcons.com by clicking HERE.

The Falcons Go National On ESPN3!
Bowling Green's remaining three meets at Cooper Pool will all be available via ESPN3 and the WatchESPN app, beginning with Friday's meet against Miami. The Falcons and RedHawks will swim in a dual meet beginning at 3:00 pm. On Feb. 5, BGSU will welcome Youngstown State and Oakland to The Coop, before the Falcons host the MAC Championships on Feb. 24-27.

Senior Day Set For Feb. 5
Eight members of the Bowling Green State University swimming & diving program will be recognized on Feb. 5 as part of Senior Day. The tri-meet against Oakland and Youngstown State will begin at 5:00 pm. The eight seniors that will be recognized will be Jordan Bullock, Tara Capouch, Daniela Carrillo, Kayla Effinger, Nichole Hranchook, Hannah Newman, Rachel Perry and Alex Poitinger.

Highlights From The Pittsburgh Invitational
• Griffin B cut in 100 Free
• Carrillo B cut in 100 Breast
• Carrillo B cut in 200 Breast
• Wohlert 1st in 400 IM
• Griffin 1st in 100 Free
• Griffin top time of season in 50 Free

Highlights From The Zippy Invite
• Skorupski B cut in 100 Back
• Filby B cut in 200 Breast
• Poitinger 1st in 500 Free
• Criswell 1st in 1650 Free
• Bullock 2nd in 200 Fly
• Effinger 2nd best time of season in 50 free