OSU Hosts Jessica Beck Memorial This Weekend – Ohio State Buckeyes
2/5/2015 12:00:00 AM | Artistic Swimming
Feb. 5, 2015
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State will host the eighth-annual Jessica Beck Memorial Competition Saturday in the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. The trio routines will kick the competition off at 4 p.m. The teams scheduled to compete in addition to Ohio State, include Miami University, Stanford, Wheaton, Michigan and Wright State.
The meet will not feature a technical competition, but fans will able to see many of the top routines in the country in the following order: trio, duet, solo and team. (Please note this schedule is subject to change).
The Buckeyes will be represented in the solo routine on Saturday by Alexa Aton, Emma Baranski and Elizabeth Davidson. Both the Buckeye All-Americans, Baranski and Davidson, had impressive showings at the Ohio State Invitational where they took first and second in this competition.
In duets, the winning duo from the Ohio State Invitational of Lorriane Hack and Alyssa Hoying will make a pair. Seniors Samantha Golomb and Emily Muma will form an entry alongside fellow seniors Cory Justice and Heidi Liou.
Three groups will be competing in the trio routine for the Scarlet and Gray. The winning team from the Ohio State Invitational of Hoying, Hack and Monica Velazquez-Stiak will form the first trio. Senior Khadija Zanotto will be joined by sophomores, Baranaski and Davidson and the final group will consist of Tori Baron, Sarah House and Caroline Jimenez.
Ohio State will also have three groups competing in their first team competition of the season.
FOR JESSICA
The Jessica Beck Memorial Meet, formerly known as the OSU Collegiate Meet, is in honor of Buckeye synchronized swimmer Jessica Catherine Beck who died Sept. 15, 2005. Beck, who was 21 and a native of Richmond, Va., would have competed in her senior season in 2006. The Buckeyes renamed the OSU Collegiate Meet to the Jessica Beck Memorial Meet in her honor in 2007.
In her second year at Ohio State, Beck was a member of the Buckeye ‘B’ team that placed second at the North Regional championships and fourth at the Collegiate National championships. As a junior, she played an integral role in helping the OSU ‘B’ team regain the bronze medal at the U.S. Collegiate National championships with her flawless execution of the vertical team lift.
Beck also excelled in the classroom, garnering Academic All-America accolades for three-consecutive years. Majoring in communication, Beck was a two-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree, three-time Ohio State Scholar-Athlete award winner and was named to the Dean’s List.
At the meet, there will be tables set up by the American Red Cross where fans can learn more about this organization and have the opportunity to make a financial contribution.
2014 JESSICA BECK MEMORIAL MEET
The Buckeyes dominated the 2014 Jessica Beck Meet, finished first with a score of 93. Michigan came in second with 47 points, Miami University Marlins came in third with 26 points and Ohio University came in fourth with a score of 13 points.
The trio teams of Elizabeth Davidson, Yuliya Maryanko, Morgan Boneberg (87.1500) and Chelsea Aton, Lauren Nicholson, Khadija Zanotto (84.4000) finished first and second while Emma Baranski, Lorraine Hack performed a beautiful duet routine to win that event.
In the team competition, Aton, Baranski, Davidson, Hack, Maryanko, Nicholson, Katie Spada, and Zanotto (won the event with a strong score of 88.1000.
UP NEXT
Ohio State will split up next weekend. Some of the team will compete in Tuscon, Arizona and others will head to Virginia for meets at Richmond as well as William & Mary.
