BGSU Ties Greatest Begin in Program Historical past with UTRGV Win

Recap courtesy of Bowling Green’s Athletic Communications Department

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The Bowling Green girls’s swim and dive group closed out its two-day twin meet in opposition to UTRGV with one other commanding efficiency Saturday at Cooper Pool, incomes a 373-161 victory and finishing one of many strongest dual-meet weekends of the season.

The Falcons opened the morning session with a win within the 400 medley relay as Emily McNicol, Corine Rieskamp, Grace Bodrock and Annie Berrow posted a 3:50.37 to proceed the momentum from Friday night time. Head coach Tanner Barton mentioned the depth on show all through the weekend made a right away impression.

“We have some great depth right now, and it was fun to watch our swimmers compete in primary events and secondary events,” Barton mentioned. “They were really getting after it, and the results speak for themselves.”

Bowling Green strengthened its lead with a sweep of the 1650 freestyle the place Caroline Toledo received in 17:34.01 adopted by Lourdes Manderfield (17:54.03) and Morgan Sokol (18:13.88). In the 200 freestyle, Samia Becdach touched first in 1:53.58 and Alexandra Johnson claimed the 200 butterfly in 1:06.22. McNicol added one other particular person win within the 50 freestyle (24.36).

While the Falcons didn’t take the 1 meter dive they secured key factors with Natalia Mayorga putting second (293.48) and Elise Snyder ending third (266.70). Bodrock then reasserted management within the pool with a win within the 100 freestyle (52.89).

BGSU continued to roll as McNicol received the 200 backstroke in 2:03.06, and freshman Corine Rieskamp captured the 200 backstroke with a 2:27.19. Korina Solera prolonged the lead within the 500 freestyle (5:13.78) earlier than Becdach returned atop the rostrum with a 57.93 within the 100 butterfly.

Barton praised McNicol’s more and more sturdy kind heading towards midseason, noting it displays deliberate work behind the scenes.

“Her getting the NIC A cut at this point in the season is a huge accomplishment, and it’s a testament to how hard she’s been working in the water and the weight room,” Barton mentioned. “We’ve also worked a lot on her underwater dolphin kicks…She’s swimming extremely well because she’s training extremely well, and it’s going to be fun to watch her throughout the rest of the season.”

In the closing occasions, Madison Bond delivered a successful 400 IM at 4:35.44 her quickest of the yr, earlier than the Falcons completed the meet with a win within the 200 freestyle relay (1:38.66) behind Becdach, Lauren Jablonski, Eva Nixon and Bella Treib.

As the Falcons put together for the Magnus Cup Invitational from Nov. 20–22, Barton mentioned the group is making use of a sharper focus to tactical racing.

“We talked a lot going into this weekend about our racing strategies. How are we swimming the races? How are we going out in that first lap? How are we coming home and finishing? So, we worked on race strategies. Next week, we can implement our race strategies to a tee. I feel like the ladies, based on what the coaching staff and I saw, are executing these strategies and now they’ll know exactly what to do going into that multi-team invite on Thursday.”