Bearcat Women Finish 7th at Sectionals

Jul 26, 2009

The Sectional Championships concluded on Saturday as the Bearcat Women’s Team took 7^th place. The Colorado Stars finished 1^st, Denver Hilltoppers 2^nd and BEST from Arizona in 3^rd.

For the women, 17-year-old Crystal Kibby led the Bearcats through all her events swimming all best times, keeping pace with the top eight swimmers through much of the meet. Crystal had her goals set on qualifying for the Junior National Championships, and instead blew away the Junior time qualifications and swam US Open and National time qualifications in the 100 & 200 Breaststroke and the 200 & 400 I.M.

The Bearcat 800 Freestyle Relay of Tori Simenec, Amber Boucher, Crystal Kibby and Michelle Jasmer posted a time of 8:35.37, a Junior National qualification and earned the Bearcat ladies a 5^th place finish. The next morning those same four swimmers placed 4^th with a time of 4:26.57 on the 400 Medley Relay. The 200 Meter Freestyle and 200 Meter Relays both placed 8^th and the 400 Free Relay placed 10^th. All five Bearcat relays shattered the previous existing team records.

“I think the Bearcat swimmers came prepared and ready for fast competition,” said Head Coach, Craig Charlson. “The results were simply outstanding.”

Full results from Mt. Hood Sectional Championship can be found here: http://results.teamunify.com/osmhst/

Next pool action will be at the Oregon “A’s” Thursday morning. Following Oregon A’s, Crystal Kibby and Tori Simenec will compete at the US Open in Federal Way starting August 4^th.