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Volume CXXXIII, Number 13 |
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Four Bowdoin swimmers and divers qualify for Nationals
MELISSA PERRIN
STAFF WRITER
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| Bowdoin swimmers practice for their last dual meet of the season against rival Colby. The women will head down to Wesleyan on February 20 for the NESCAC Championships with the men's meet to follow on February 27. (Hans Law, Bowdoin Orient) |
Divers Brian McGregor '04 and Tori Tudor '06 and swimmers Megan McLean '07 and Katie Chapman '07 qualified for Nationals after the Bowdoin swim teams traveled to Connecticut to take on Trinity College and host Wesleyan College last Saturday. Despite these top performances, the men's team lost to Wesleyan 162-120 and Trinity 149-138, while the women were upped by Wesleyan with a score of 167-132 and Trinity by 150-148.
McGregor qualified on both boards with scores of 281.60 on the one-meter board and 275.40 on the three-meter board. Tudor qualified on the three-meter board with her score of 250.20, and scored 248.75 on the one-meter board to earn first place points in both events. Fellow diver Mindy Chism '06 scored 191.95 on the one-meter board to place second in the field of 13 divers, and broke 200 points for the first time on the three meter board.
McLean dropped three seconds from her previous time in the 200-yard butterfly to make the provisional National qualifying cut with a time of 2:11.89 minutes. Chapman turned in times of 1:56.02 minutes and 59.26 seconds in the 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly, respectively, to make the provisional cuts in both events. In addition, she won the 200-yard Individual Medley to sweep her individual events.
Despite the losses to Wesleyan and Trinity, Bowdoin had several good swims, as 14 swimmers turned in the best times in their college careers, and 20 people saw season best swims in one or more events.
Bowdoin's breaststrokers saw a great deal of improvement. First-year Lauren Steffel improved her time in the 100-yard breaststroke to 1:19.44 minutes, while sophomore Katie Eshelman notched the best times of her Bowdoin career in both the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke.
Kelly Devine '06 had a strong outing, dropping two seconds in her 200-yard freestyle and one second in her 100-yard freestyle for two personal bests. Also swimming to Bowdoin bests in the 100-yard freestyle were Nicole Goyette '05, Chad Pelton '04, and Carter Thomas '06.
The team wraps up its dual-meet season tomorrow at Colby. In two weeks, the women will travel back to Wesleyan for NESCAC championships, then a week later, the men will be hosting their championship meet.
After the swims at last weekend's meet, coach Brad Burnham said confidently, "We are ready to swim fast at the end of the year."
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