Women's Swim Team Places Fifth at New Englands

BRIDGEWATER, Mass. -- Sophomore Jillian Coache (New Bedford, MA) won a pair of New England championships in the 100 and 200 butterfly events, and junior diver Jennifer Jackson (Randolph, MA) earned a New England title on the one-meter board, to lead the Bridgewater State College women's swim team to a fifth place finish at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association Division II and III Championships held at the University of New Hampshire over the weekend.

The Bears achieved All-New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association (NEISDA) honors in nine individual events as well as two relays.  The top six in each individual final and the top three in each relay final receive All-NEISDA recognition.

Coache posted first place times of 1:00.61 in the 100 butterfly and 2:15.77 in the 200 butterfly to earn All-NEISDA honors in those events, and she also set the school record in the 50 butterfly (time trial) as she registered a time of :27.66, breaking Lindsay Devereaux's previous mark of :27.74. Coache also captured All-New England honors with a fourth place showing in the 200 freestyle (2:03.64) as well as third place finishes in the 200 medley relay and the 800 freestyle relay.

Jackson, who has already provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships on the three-meter board, tallied a score of 333.95 points on the one-meter board to place first in the event.  She also earned All-NEISDA honors on the three-meter board, placing second with a score of 364.15 points.

Freshman Bryn Morwick (Indianapolis, IN) captured All-NEISDA in five events, three individual and the 200 medley and 800 freestyle relays.  Morwick placed second in the 200 individual medley (2:17.56) and fourth in the 200 butterfly (2:19.10).  She also finished third in the 400 individual medley setting the school record with a time of 4:54.00 as she shattered Devereaux's previous mark of 5:01.54 set in 2004.

The Bears' third place 200 medley relay team, featuring Coache, Morwick, and sophomores Erica Robinson (Lynn, MA) and Katrina Scholtz (Amesbury, MA), set the school mark with a time of 1:56.71 as they bettered the previous standard of 1:58.27. Joining Coache and Morwick on the All-New England 800 freestyle relay squad (8:21.45) were sophomores Sarah Fuller (Palmer, MA) and Meghan Kennedy (Dracut, MA).

Robinson earned All-New England honors in the 200 backstroke as well as she place sixth in the event with a time of 2:21.62.

The Bears' 400 medley relay team featuring Robinson, Scholtz, Coache and Morwick broke their own school record in the event as they posted a time of 4:18.78.  They bettered their original mark of 4:19.99 which they set at Babson earlier this month.