Ohio State Women Travel to Indiana for Big Ten Championships
2/19/2019 2:00:19 PM | Women's Swim & Dive
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COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Ohio State women’s swimming & diving team kicks off the conference championship season at the 2019 Big Ten Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships held at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatics Center on the campus of Indiana University from Wednesday, Feb. 20 through Saturday, Feb. 23.
The meet will be broadcast on BTN Plus for all sessions, and will be on Big Ten Network on Sunday, Feb. 24 at 10:30 a.m. ET.
| Wednesday, Feb. 20 - 6:30 p.m. - Swimming Finals | Thursday, Feb. 21 - 11 a.m. - Swimming Prelims | Friday, Feb. 22 - 11 a.m. - Swimming Prelims | Saturday, Feb. 23 - 11 a.m. - Swimming Prelims |
|---|---|---|---|
| 200 Medley Relay | 500 Freestyle | 100 Butterfly | 200 Backstroke |
| 30 Minute Intermission | 200 Individual Medley | 400 Individual Medley | 100 Freestyle |
| 800 Freestyle Relay | 50 Freestyle | 200 Freestyle | 200 Breaststroke |
| 1 p.m. - Diving Trials | 100 Breaststroke | 200 Butterfly | |
| 1M Diving Trials | 100 Backstroke | 1 p.m. - Diving Prelims | |
| 30 minute break | 1 p.m. - Diving Trials | Platform Diving - Trials | |
| 1M Consolation Finals | 3-Meter Diving Trials | Platform Diving - Consolation Final | |
| 6:30 p.m. - Swimming & Diving Finals | 30 minute break | 4:15 p.m. - Approximate Mid-Day Session | |
| 500 Freestyle | 3-Meter Diving - Consolation Final | 1650 Freestyle (fastest heat at finals) | |
| 200 Individual Medley | 6:30 p.m. - Swimming & Diving Finals | 6:30 p.m. - Swimming & Diving Finals | |
| 50 Freestyle | 100 Butterfly | 1650 Freestyle | |
| 1-Meter Diving Finals | 400 Individual Medley | 200 Backstroke | |
| 400 Medley Relay | 200 Freestyle | 100 Freestyle | |
| 100 Breaststroke | 200 Breaststroke | ||
| 100 Backstroke | 200 Butterfly | ||
| 3-Meter Diving Finals | Platform Diving Finals | ||
| 200 Freestyle Relay | 400 Freestyle Relay |
TOP PERFORMERS
Ohio State owns 22 of the Top 10 times and scores in the Big Ten Conference, with top performances in every event category.
Junior Kathrin Demler leads the way for the team, appearing on the Top 10 list in four different events. Demler’s 200 Fly time of 1:55.53 is second overall in the Big Ten, as is her 400 IM time of 4:07.06. Additionally, Demler is ninth in the 200 Back (1:55.77) and in the 200 IM (1:55.53).
The 400 IM is perhaps the strongest event for the Buckeyes, with two additional Top 10 times along with Demler. Sophomore Kristen Romano, last year’s Big Ten Freshman of the Year, is seventh in the event with a season-best time of 4:11.32. Sophomore Katie Trace follows in ninth with a time of 4:12.44.
Three Ohio State divers appear in the list of top platform dives, led by junior Lara Tarvit in third overall with a score of 387.93. Sophomore Genevieve Angerame is seventh (269.33) while sophomore Lexie Barker is eighth (259.15).
Ohio State’s top relay squad is the 200 Free Relay, coming in third in the Big Ten with a season-best time of 1:29.85. The quartet of sophomore Freya Rayner, senior Maria Coy, sophomore Taylor Petrak and junior Rebekah Bradley achieved the time against Pitt.
Other Top Times:
• Taylor Petrak – 50 Free – No. 8 – 22.59
• Freya Rayner – 50 Free – No. 9 – 22.65
• Molly Kowal – 1650 Free – No. 5 – 16:14.28
• Rebekah Bradley – 100 Back – No. 8 – 52.91
• Marianne Kahmann – 100 Back – No. 10 – 53.27
• Hanna Gresser – 100 Breast – No. 6 – 59.88
• Lara Tarvit – 1M – No. 8 – 307.95
• Genevieve Angerame – 1M – No. 10 – 306.08
• 400 Free Relay (Petrak, Coy, Jurkovic-Perisa, White) – No. 5 – 3:19.23
• 800 Free Relay (Demler, Jurkovic-Perisa, Trace, White) – No. 5 – 7:14.12
• 200 Medley Relay (Kahmann, Gresser, Bradley, Coy) – No. 6 – 1:38.47
• 400 Medley Relay (Bradley, Gresser, Demler, Petrak) – No. 7 – 3:36.80
OHIO STATE AT THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS
Ohio State has won five team Big Ten championships; all five conference titles were captured in a five-year period from 1982-86 under coach Jim Montrella. The Buckeyes have also won 92 Big Ten swimming, diving and relay titles.
• Fifty-five swimming individual champions – Liz Li won three in 2018 (50 Free, 100 Free, 100 Fly)
• Twenty-four diving champions – last was Cheyenne Cousineau in 2012 (platform)
• Thirteen relay wins – the 200 Free Relay team of Freya Rayner, Liz Li, Macie McNichols and Maria Coy won the title in 2018 with a time of 1:27.08
