Women’s Swimming & Diving Falls in Big Ten Dual – Ohio State Buckeyes
1/13/2007 12:00:00 AM | Women's Swim & Dive
Jan. 13, 2007
Results
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State women’s swimming and diving team fell, 132-168, to Big Ten rival Northwestern Saturday at the Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The Ohio State divers continued their dual-meet dominance, sweeping both the 1- and 3-meter boards. Chelsea Davis (So., Columbus, Ohio/Worthington Kilbourne) took home a pair of diving titles for the third consecutive meet.
Davis’ score of 291.45 on the 1-meter was more than 35 points ahead of teammate Kati Bell (Fr., Cincinnati, Ohio/Graham School), who finished second with a score of 254.58. Julie Broms (Sr., Indianapolis, Ind./North Central) rounded out the podium, diving a score of 251.85. Davis posted a score of 313.20 for the 1-meter title, with Broms behind her in second with 308.55 points. Bell earned the bronze with a score of 252.68.
The Buckeyes kicked off the meet with a 2-3 finish in the 200-yard medley relay. The squad of Gulsah Gunenc (Sr., Edirne, Turkey/Edirne Anatolian), Rebekah Rychvalsky (Sr., Sydney, Australia/Castle Hill), Linda Lund (Jr., Roennede, Denmark/Haslev) and Elaine Chan (So., Hong Kong China/ Hupp Yenn) swam a season-best time of 1:45.47 for second, while teammates Whitney Hackman (Fr., Goshen, Ind./Northridge), Megan Alexander (Fr., Worthington, Ohio/Worthington Kilbourne), Stephanie Fennell (Fr., Campbellville, Canada/Milton District) and Chirstina Sarnecki (So., Dexter, Mich./Dexter) completed the relay in 1:53.18 for third. Northwestern swimmers sandwiched Griet Buelens (Jr., Kapelle-Op-Den-Bos, Belgium/Ursuline Academy) in the 1,000-yard freestyle, with first- and third-place finishes. Buelens touched the wall second in a time of 10:06.25. Annie Rennenbom (Jr., Columbus, Ohio/Thomas Worthington) swam her fastest dual-meet time of 1:55.16 in the 200-yard freestyle to take third place.
Jill Lockhart (Fr., Muncie, Ind./Yorktown) recorded the team’s fastest time of the season in the 100-yard backstroke to stop the clock second at 58.16. Classmate Colleen Schweitzer (Fr., Highlands Park, Colo./Highlands Ranch) rounded out the Top 3 in the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:06.04.
Ohio State captured the Top 2 places in the 200-yard butterfly when Buelens hit the wall first in a NCAA `B’ qualifying time of 2:02.43. Gunenc finished next in 2:02.54, edging out Wildcat Katie Braun (2:03.17) for second. Gunenc’s time also qualifies as a NCAA `B’ standard.
Chan swam to a third-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle, finishing the sprint in 24.24. Two Northwestern swimmers Andrea Hupman and Emily Wong recorded NCAA `B’ times to garner first and second place in the 100-yard freestyle. Rennebohm was Ohio State’s fastest swimmer, finishing the race in 54.26 for third. Lockhart (2:03.91) again found herself in the silver-medal position when she and Fennell (2:10.61) went 2-3 in the 200-yard backstroke.
Schweitzer picked up the second individual win of the meet for Ohio State in the 200-yard breaststroke. Her time of 2:19.99 is the fastest time swum on the team this year. Buelens was the runner-up in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:56.03. Gunenc swam her season best time of 56.60 for the silver in the 100-yard butterfly.
In the final individual race of the meet, Lockhart and Gunenc claimed second and third place, respectively. Lockhart completed the race in 2:08.00, while Gunenc came in at 2:08.49. The Buckeyes ended the meet with a second-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The quad of Chan, Buelens, Rennebohm and Stasia von Rahl (So., Mishawka, Ind./St. Joseph’s) swam the relay in 1:37.05.
“We swam pretty well,” Jeanne Fleck, head swimming coach, said. “We just didn’t have the fire-power we needed. We had some great, solid swims, but we needed more people to step out of the box like Colleen did. We still have a lot of work to do heading into the next weekend with meets against Penn State and Kenyon, but I don’t think deflates our season. We are off to the best start we have ever had, so this is fun for us. We are moving in the right direction.”
The Buckeyes travel to State College, Pa. to take on Big Ten foe Penn State, Friday at 4 p.m., before returning home to swim the Kenyon Lords, Jan. 21 at noon, at the Bill and Mae McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion in their last meet before the Big Ten championships.
Individual Event Winner List
| Event | Winner | Time |
| 400-yard Medley Relay | Northwestern | 1:44.65 |
| 1,000-yard Freestyle | Kassia Shishkoff (NU) | 9:58.91 |
| 200-yard Freestyle | Andrea Hupman (NU) | 1:49.94 |
| 100-yard Backstroke | Genny Szymanski (NU) | 57.58 |
| 100-yard Breaststroke | Jessie Bailis (NU) | 1:04.60 |
| 200-yard Butterfly | Griet Buelens (OSU) | 2:02.43 |
| 50-yard freestyle | Emily Wong (NU) | 23.61 |
| 3-meter Diving | Chelsea Davis (OSU) | 313.20 |
| 100-yard Freestyle | Andrea Hupman (NU) | 50.36 |
| 200-yard Backstroke | Genny Szymanksi (NU) | 2:02.48 |
| 200-yard Breaststroke | Colleen Schweitzer (OSU) | 2:19.99 |
| 500-yard Freestyle | Kassia Shishkoff (NU) | 4:53.49 |
| 100-yard Butterfly | Katie Braun (NU) | 55.39 |
| 1-meter Diving | Chelsea Davis (OSU) | 291.45 |
| 200-yard Individual Medley | Kassia Shischkoff (NU) | 2:07.05 |
| 200-yard Freestyle Relay | Northwestern | 1:34.44 |
