Women's Swimming (1:00 Class)

We chose women’s swimming because we wanted to choose a women’s sport because all our group members are women but at first we did not know exactly what sport we wanted to do. We knew that the women’s swimming team has had a long and successful history so we wanted to learn more about it. Not many people know about women’s swimming so we wanted to educate more people about the history of the sport at BGSU. Our group also wanted to find a way to relate our ethical project on Title IX and the Centennial project together. We hope that by doing this project we can educate and draw more fans into supporting the very successful women’s swim team.
There were quite a few things that we difficult about finding information about the women’s swim team. Bowling Green did not keep very good records about the history of the sport, so we relied on information that Dr. Spencer provided us and the archives for the majority of our information search. It was time consuming because we had to search through ancient microfilms and yearbooks in order to piece together the data. The yearbooks were not very helpful because they did not give detailed history about the team.

A few interesting facts about the women’s swimming program at BGSU is that it has been around since the 1950’s and has had a total of seven coaches. The newest coach, Petra Martin (Above) was recently hired in August of 2010. The women’s swim team has consistently been one of the top performing teams at the school and their best season was in 1992. Some of the best athletes in history have been Cheryl Patterson, who is 1993 broke two records in the 200 and 400 individual medleys. Alisha Ye broke the 100 backstroke record in 2008, and the 200 backstroke record in 2009. In 2010, Meg Richardson broke three records for the 50, 100, and 200 freestyle records in 2010.

Members of this group include: Rebekah Dyvig, Shamari Hamlet, and Liz Kostelac