Women's Swimming & Diving: Ohio Northern (2-1 Overall) at Wooster Invitational
Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 30-Dec. 2, 2017, Wooster High School/Timken Natatorium, Wooster, Ohio
This Weekend's Meet: Ohio Northern will compete at the 11-team Wooster Invitational, which is scheduled just like the OAC Championships meet in February, which is a 20-event meet spread ove three days ... Each day of the inviational will feature a prelim portion and finals portion for each event ... The diving portion of the meet will be held at The College of Wooster, while the swimming portion of the meet will be at the Wooster YMCA/High School ... Championship, consolation, and bonus finals will consist of eight swimmers each ... Scoring will be through 24th place ... The 1650 and the relays will be timed finals ... Last year the Polar Bears finished 4th of 9 teams with 1074 points. ... The prelims for the first day of the invitational are scheduled to begin at 11 am ... Ohio Northern is coming off a 156-128 victory at Wittenberg on Nov. 18 ... Senior Sydney Veon and junior Kierra Watson each won twice to lead Ohio Northern ... Veon won the 50 free in :25.71 and the 200 breast in 2:34.97, while Watson swept the back events, winning the 100 back in 1:04.19 and the 200 back in 2:20.17 ... Freshman Marissa Taylor won the 1000 free in 11:16.65 ... Sophomore Libby Sartschev and freshman Claire Kaiding won the two diving competitions. Sartschev won the 3-meter diving with 164.10 points and Kaiding won the 1-meter diving with 188.35 points.
Schedule of Events
Distances in Yards
Thursday, Nov. 30 (11 am/7 pm)
1. 200 Free Relay Women
2. 200 Free Relay Men
3. 500 Free Women
4. 500 Free Men
5. 200 I.M. Women
6. 200 I.M. Men
7. 50 Free Women
8. 50 Free Men
9. 400 Medley Relay Women
10. 400 Medley Relay Men
Friday, Dec. 1 (10 am/6 pm)
11. 200 Medley Relay Women
12. 200 Medley Relay Men
13. 400 I.M. Women
14. 400 I.M. Men
15. 100 Fly Women
16. 100 Fly Men
17. 200 Free Women
18. 200 Free Men
19. 100 Breast Women
20. 100 Breast Men
21. 100 Back Women
22. 100 Back Men
23. 800 Free Relay Women
24. 800 Free Relay Men
25. 1-Meter Diving Women
26. 3-Meter Diving Men
Saturday, Dec. 2 (10 am/5 pm)
27. 1,650 Free Women
28. 1,650 Free Men
29. 200 Back Women
30. 200 Back Men
31. 100 Free Women
32. 100 Free Men
33. 200 Breast Women
34. 200 Breast Men
35. 200 Fly Women
36. 200 Fly Men
37. 400 Free Relay Women
38. 400 Free Relay Men
39. 3-Meter Diving Women
40. 1-Meter Diving Men
ONU head coach Peggy Ewald: Ewald is in her 14th season at ONU and is the program's all-time winningest coach with an 82-72 women's dual meet record, a winning percentage of .532. She has been named OAC Women's Coach of the Year five times and had guided the Polar Bear women to seven OAC Championships crowns and 10 OAC Regular Season titles.