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 Ashley St. Andrew is the GLIAC Co-Freshman of the Year |
Feb. 24, 2007
ASHLAND, Ohio - The Wayne State women's swimming and diving team (739.5 points) captured its second straight GLIAC Championship by a 138.5-point margin over second-place Grand Valley State (601).
Indianapolis (575) came in third place, followed by host school Ashland (509). Gannon (310) was sixth, followed by Hillsdale (309.5), Lewis (275.5), Northern Michigan (231.5), and Findlay (116).
Head coach Sean Peters won his second GLIAC Women's Coach of the Year, marking the second year in a row he has earned both the men's and women's year-end awards. Additionally, Ashley St. Andrew (Grand Rapids, Mich./Jenison) was named Co-Freshman of the Year along with Jenny Johnsson of Ashland.
In the first event of the evening, Erika Barczak (Williamston, Mich.) won the three-meter diving competition with a score of 447.75. Katie Rence (Portage, Mich./Central) came in fourth (348.20) and Venessa Torres (Wyandotte, Mich./Roosevelt) placed fifth (341.00).
St. Andrew won the 1000 free in 10:19.51, setting a new GLIAC record and breaking her own WSU record. Melissa Duff (Howell, Mich./Brighton) finished second (10:35.18), Maggie Young (Tecumseh, Ont./St. Anne's) came in 10th (10:54.65), Mandy Burton (Ypsilanti, Mich./Lincoln) placed 13th (10:59.92), and Whitney Baker (Trenton, Mich.) rounded out the point-scoring field in 16th (11:06.43).
In the "A" final of the 200 backstroke, Katie Harrigan (Portage, Mich./Northern) turned in a fourth-place time of 2:10.16. Erin Hill (Holt, Mich.), Burton, and Jenny Howe (Wyandotte, Mich./Riverview) all swam in the "B" final and came in ninth (2:12.65), 12th (2:14.70), and 16th (2:17.98), respectively.
Haintso Rakouth (Saginaw, Mich./Heritage) finished fifth (54.40) in the 100 freestyle, while Julie Danaher (Allen Park, Mich.) took eighth (55.26).
Jodi Scott (Windsor, Ont./Riverside S.S.) swam in the "A" final of the 200 breaststroke and came in eighth (2:31.73), and Amber Staudacher (Rockford, Mich.) finished 10th (2:34.54) in the "B" final.
Elaina Hogle (Kentwood, Mich./East Kentwood) and Laura Leix (Flint, Mich./Southwestern) went one-two in the 200 fly, with Hogle's time of 2:06.36 setting a new GLIAC record. Leix turned in a time of 2:09.52, and Elena Crowley (Detroit, Mich./Mercy) won the "B" final (ninth overall) in 2:15.05.
In the final event of the championship, the Wayne State 400 free relay team of Rakouth, St. Andrew, Hogle, and Danaher took second place.
Wayne State will have several representatives competing at the NCAA Championships, which will be held in Buffalo, N.Y., March 14-17.
