BGSU Swimmers And Divers Dominate First Home Meet

Saturday, October 6

Bowling Green, Ohio

10:00 AM

Bowling Green State University

215

University of Findlay

Photo by: BGSU Marketing and Communications

October 07, 2018 | Women's Swimming & Diving

By: by Edward Perez, BGSU Athletic Communications

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio -- The Bowling Green State University swimming and diving program competed in their first home meet of the 2018-19 season in a double-dual meet versus Findlay and Northern Michigan. From 16 events in which the Orange and Brown competed in, the Falcons had swimmers and divers place first in 10 events. BGSU outscored the Findlay Oilers 215.00-85.00, and defeated the Northern Michigan Wildcats 192.00-108.00

FALCON STANDOUTS
• Senior Franziska Wohlert placed first in the 100 and 1,000-yard freestyle with finish times of 53.04 and 10:32.56. Wolhert was also in the winning 400-yard freestyle relay team (Wolhert, Ashleigh Franks, Anna Eriksson, Kellie House) that took first place by a three second margin (3:35.13).
• Sophomore Sarah Hennings finished first in two events as well; the 100 and 200-yard butterfly with times of 57.40 and 2:07.46. Eriksson finished behind Hennings in the 100-yard butterfly with a finish time of 59.46.
• The Falcons were dominant in diving, occupying the top four spots in the one-meter and three-meter diving events. Talisa Lemke, Ashley White, and Claire Stam, in that order, were the top three divers in both events. Lemke was awarded 290.00 points in the one-meter category, and 285.80 in the three-meter event.
• Franks, House and Jordan Andrusak earned single first place finishes in separate events. Franks placed first in the 50-yard freestyle (24.70), House finished in first in the 500-yard freestyle (5:07.96), and Andrusak won the 200-yard backstroke (2:22.95). Andrusak was also second in 200-yard IM (2:07.17) and the 100-yard backstroke (1:07.35)

FULL RESULTS

COACH PERKINS QUOTE
"It was a great day, we had a lot of great races. Our goal is to do all the small things correctly, and do those well; starts, turn, our approaches to the divers, if we can continue to do that, great things are going to happen for us in the long run. It's a long season but we are well on our way to having a great season by the end.

I think the biggest strength we need to work on is continue being brave, continue to risk, and being aggressive; that's something we've been working on all season long, trusting yourself, knowing you still have more, you still have another gear you can always go into."

UP NEXT
The BGSU swimming and diving program will remain at Cooper Pool this upcoming weekend for the Tom Stubbs Relay on Friday, Oct. 12, and the Jean Campbell Alumni Meet on Saturday, Oct. 13.