Women’s Swimming to Compete in Auburn Invitational – Ohio State Buckeyes
12/3/2003 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swim & Dive
Dec. 3, 2003
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COLUMBUS, Ohio– The Ohio State women’s swimming team will travel to Auburn, Ala. Thursday for a weekend competition at the Auburn Invitational. Participating teams include No. 1-ranked Auburn, No. 20/22 Northwestern, South Carolina and Michigan State.
BUCKEYES SWEEP CLEVELAND STATE
The squad swept all 13 events to defeat Cleveland State 147-81 last Tuesday at the Mike Peppe Aquatic Center, bringing its dual-meet record to 4-1.
Improving the season best time she set against Michigan, Nicole Maglich won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 52.95. Maglich, along with Katie Kolles, Ashley Barnes and Kristina Lipskis also set a season best time in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:38.53.
Deanna Strunk won both the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:09.18 and 100-yard backstroke with a time of 59.95. Also a double-event winner, Stephanie Raezer won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:03.70 and the 1,000-yard freestyle event with a time of 10:14.50.
Freshman Julie Broms continues her streak at Ohio State, staying undefeated in the 1-meter dive and placing first in all but one of the 3-meter dives this season. Broms won the 1-meter dive with a score of 182.20 and the 3-meter dive with 193.25. The women’s diving squad is currently undefeated in all diving events for the season.
OHIO STATE TAKES FOURTH PLACE AT NORTHWESTERN INVITE
Deanna Strunk led the Buckeyes with a first-place finish in the 400-yard individual medley with at time of 4:23.88. Strunk also set a lifetime best in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 57.73.
Nicole Maglich set a lifetime and season best time, placing second in the 200-yard freestyle in a time of 1:52.29. Kylie Lancken also placed second in the 200-yard backstroke.
BUCKEYES SWIM HARD AGAINST MICHIGAN
Ohio State was narrowly defeated by No. 16 Michigan 153.5-146.5 in a suspenseful meet Nov. 14, with both teams exchanging the lead several times and the Buckeyes entering the final event ahead of the Wolverines.
With Michigan leading by three points going into the next to last event, Deanna Strunk took an early lead in the 400-yard individual medley and placed first with a season best time of 4:25.14. Liz Osterer and Stephanie Raezer took third and fourth, scoring a total of 14 points in the event to put the Buckeyes ahead 144.5-138.5. Head coach Jeanne Fleck immediately switched up her relay teams, spreading her talent in hopes of taking at least second and third place in the 400-yard freestyle relay to maintain the point lead.
Ohio State finished only three seconds behind Michigan to take third and fourth place, giving up the dual meet win by seven points.
Gulsah Gunenc took her third consecutive win in the 200-yard butterfly in a time of 2:03.26, setting a season’s best time. Freshman Julie Broms also continued her success with the Buckeyes, placing first in both the 1-meter dive with a score of 281.70 and the 3-meter dive with a score of 293.63, both NCAA zone diving qualifying marks.
RYCHVALSKY SETS POOL RECORD
Breaking a pool record set by Michigan at the Mike Peppe Aquatic Center in 1994, Rebekah Rychvalsky won the 200-yard breaststroke with an NCAA B qualifying time of 2:18.79 against Michigan. This was Rychvalsky’s third consecutive first-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke this season. Rychvalsky also won the 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:04.16.
EARLIER IN THE SEASON
At the first home meet Nov. 7, the squad earned its second and third win against Louisville, 171-62, and West Virginia, 169.5-65.5, sweeping all of the events. Nicole Maglich brought in two wins, making a time of 1:52.94 in the 200-yard freestyle and 4:59.55 in the 500-yard freestyle. Deanna Strunk also won two events, taking first-place in the 200-yard individual medley (2:09.09) and 200-yard backstroke (2:08.95).
The squad placed first, second and third in the 200-yard breaststroke, with Rebekah Rychvalsky placing first in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:21.14, followed closely by Stephanie Raezer in second place and Liz Osterer in third. This was the first time in head coach Jeanne Fleck’s tenure at Ohio State that the squad took first, second and third in an event.
Kylie Lancken won the 50-yard freestyle (24.78) and Katie Severson won the 100-yard freestyle (53.29), along with Stephanie Raezer setting an impressive season best in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:11.54. Gulsah Gunenc also won the 200-yard butterfly, a streak she would continue against Michigan. The Buckeyes placed first in the 400-yard medley relay and 400-yard freestyle relay.
The Buckeyes also defeated Bowling Green 134-99 in the season opener, with Nicole Maglich placing first in the 500- and 1,000-yard freestyle and Ashley Barnes and Katie Severson taking the 50- and 100-yard freestyle. Kylie Lancken won both the 200-yard freestyle and 200-yard backstroke, with Gulsah Gunenc taking the 200-yard butterfly.
Freshman Julie Broms won the 1- and 3-meter dives at the West Virginia and Louisville meet, along with getting her first Buckeye win at the Bowling Green meet in the 1-meter dive. Anesa Beard also took her first Buckeye win at the Bowling Green meet, scoring 234.45 points in the 3-meter dive.
ABOUT COACH FLECK
Head coach Jeanne Fleck enters her fifth year with the Buckeyes, one garnered with 25 All-Big Ten selections and 41 OSU Scholar-Athletes. Fleck lost no Big Ten scorers last season and has recruited nationally and internationally ranked freshman to the team this season.
Before taking over the Ohio State program prior to the 1999 season, Fleck was both the women and men’s head coach at Northern Illinois for eight years. In her final season at NIU, Fleck was named Mid-American Conference Coach of the year after she led her women’s and men’s teams to third- and fifth-place finishes, respectively.
UP NEXT
The Buckeyes play host to Ohio Jan. 3 at 1 p.m. a the Mike Peppe Aquatic Center.
