Meg Richardson named Mac Swimmer of the Week

Senior and team captain Meg Richardson has been named Mac Swimmer of the Week The Springfield, Ohio native earned this honor after her outstanding performance at the Calvin Winter Invitational this past weekend. Throughout the weekend she broke one school record, set three pool records, and was on four pool record-breaking relays. Her times in the 50 free (23.31), 100 free (50.89), and 200 free (1.51.34) are the fastest times in the Mac to-date. Congratulations Meg!

Calvin Invitational

The Falcons had an outstanding winter invitational, coming in second place, just 100 points behind Grand Valley State University at the Calvin Invitational this past weekend. The Falcons won 15 of 18 events, racked up 27 top-three finishes, and set 12 pool records as well as one school record. After such a successful mid-way meet the girls are back in the water, training hard to set themselves up for winter training in Florida. Awesome job Falcons!

Preparing for Calvin Invite

With four dual meets and lots of training under their belts, the Falcons have turned their focus to their half-way meet of the season, the Calvin Invitational. The meet will take place Dec. 3-5 in Grand Rapids, MI. Participating teams include Olivet ,Valparaiso, Kalamazoo, Grand Valley State, Alma, Northern Michigan (women), Michigan State, Hillsdale, Denison (divers only), and  Trinity, TX (divers only).

The ladies have been training very hard and therefore will go through a slight taper for this meet, as well as race in fast suits in order to post fast times at the mid-point of the season. The mid-way meet is a great preparation for MACS, as it gives the girls an opportunity to race in fast suits while their bodies are rested.

The meet is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. on Dec 3rd, with prelims at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Good luck Falcons!

Recent Meets

On Oct. 16th the ladies kicked off the 2009-2010 season hosting the Akron Zips, the Youngstown Penguins and the Oakland Grizzlies at Cooper Pool for the Tom Stubbs Relays. Out of eleven events, the Lady Falcons took four first place finishes, four second places and three third place finishes.

On Oct. 30th the ladies traveled to nearby Eastern Michigan University for the first dual meet of the season. The Falcons fell to the Eagles 154-119. However, the Falcons recorded 18 top-three finishes; among those were three individual and two relay victories. Halloween found the Falcons traveling to Muncie to challenge the Ball State Cardinals in their home pool. Despite a close meet, the Falcons fell to the Cardinals, 153-141. Despite the loss, the Falcons swam a strong meet, posting 21 top-three finishes, including seven individual first place finishes and two relay victories. Eight of those 21 victories came from freshmen Falcons.

Nov 6th and 7th was another busy weekend for the Falcons, who faced the Ohio University Bobcats on Friday night, and the Miami University Redhawks on Saturday afternoon.  On Friday, it came down to the last event, where the Bobcats were unable to stop the force the Falcons had built for themselves throughout the night. Despite the automatic 32 point deficit from the diving events, the Falcons beat out the Bobcats 148-146. Over the course of the night, the Falcons finished in top-three places 25 times, including eight first place finsihes, nine second place finishes and eight third place finishes. On Saturday the Lady Falcons put their best effort into beating the 2008-2009 MAC champions, but fell to the Redhawks 165-129.



Full results of all meets can be found on the Women's Swimming page of the BGSU athletics site.

Pentathlon

On Oct. 5th the girls participated in the annual pentathlon, which is the orange vs. brown meet held at Cooper pool. The pentathlon consists of 5 events that everyone takes part in, a 100 of each stroke and a 200 I.M. Despite widespread sickness among the team, the girls did an awesome job at this opportunity to get up and race. Senior and team captain Meg Richardson broke the pentathlon record in the 100 free with a time of 52.84. Also breaking the record in the event and finishing second was freshman Emily Bennet with a time of 53.25. The freshman class also had a very strong showing in the 100 backstroke, with all top three finishes going to their class. Emily Bennet finished first with 1:00.41, Jamie Akenberger came in second with 1:00.71, and Alexa Harris finished third with 1:01.63. Overall the brown team was victorious. Nice job ladies!

Next up for the Falcons is the Tom Stubbs Relay Meet on Friday, Oct 16th. Go Falcons!

Homecoming Weekend

Oct 2nd marked the beginning of Homecoming weekend here at BGSU. Not only did we have three great recruits here visiting us, but many of our swim and dive alumni were able to make the trip back to visit as well! In addition to catching up with old friends and teammates, the alumni and current swimmers participated in the traditional alumni meet. The alumni meet consists of various relays, such as the 100 yd free (everyone does a 25) and the 100 yd t-shirt relay, where everyone must swim with a t-shirt on. Unfortunately we didn’t win the football game, but it was great to see old friends and spend time with possible new teammates. Here is a picture of some of our former Falcons tailgating at the football game.

8th Annual Falcon Biathlon

On Sept. 26th the Lady Falcons participated in the 8th Annual Falcon Biathlon. The biathlon, which marks the end of the running training period for the girls, consists of a 2000 yd swim followed by a 5k run. The girls did great! Individually, finishing the swim first in a time of 23:04 were Meg Richardson and Emily Bennet. Jen Beatty had the fastest run with a time of 22:30. All three top-finishing teams broke the previous team records set in years past. The first place time with a time of 1:39.08 was Katie Womack and Emily Bennet. Second place was Jen Beatty and Marie Pope with 1:39.33, and third went to Sarah Burston and Andrea Brown with a time of 1:41.03. Great job ladies!

This same weekend we also had nine recruits here to visit! They were all great and the girls had so much fun hanging out with them and getting to know them!

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Team Bonding

Earlier this month the girls held their first team bonding weekend of the season. It is a tradition of the older girls on the team to set up a team bonding weekend early in the fall to give freshmen a chance to become even more integrated in the team, and for the whole team to come together to set up how close they will become throughout the year. This year the girls participated in several team bonding activities including a high ropes course, a campfire, games, and most importantly laughs and fun.

Another team bonding weekend occurs a little later in the season where team and individual goals are set. This one is geared towards getting mentally prepared to swim fast at meets! 

high ropes course

bonding games

 

team bracelets!

the girls!

Welcome!

Welcome to the Bowling Green State University Women's Swimming team blog! This blog will be updated often to keep alumni, fans, and Future Falcons in the mix of what is going on with the current team. Enjoy!