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Swimming & Diving Hosts Doug Coers Invite This Weekend

November 19, 2009 | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving

By: Ball State Athletics

MUNCIE, Ind. - - The men's and women's swimming and diving teams will host Grand Valley State and Findlay as a part of the sixth annual Doug Coers Invitational in a two-day event that begins Friday at 6 p.m. in the Lewellen Aquatic Center.

The event is named after the late Doug Coers (1967-1997), who was a four-year member of the Ball State men's swimming and diving program from 1986-1989. From 1992-1993, Coers was a coach for the Catalina Swim Club, the Cardinal Swim Club, the Muncie Central High School Girls' Swim Team and assistant coach of the BSU women's swimming and diving program. The following four years, Coers coached the Dynamo Swim Club in Atlanta, Ga.

For the past seven seasons, the Ball State swimming & diving program has awarded the Douglas A. Coers Memorial Scholarship: Loving, kind, sincere and true in his heart. Dedicated with a passion for swimming and his alma mater. Those attributes represent the spirit and memory of Doug Coers.

Previous award winners include: Austin Laska (2008-09), Kyle Hembree (2007-08), Ryan Franklin (2006-07), Adam Konopka (2005-06), Ritchie Caudill (2004-05), Ryan Bowman (2003-04), Rod Smith (2002-03), Matt Pavlovich (2001-02).

The 2009 Doug Coers Invitational gets underway Friday at 6 p.m. with the 200 freestyle relay and is followed in succession by the 500 freestyle, 200 IM, 50 freestyle, 1-meter diving (women), 3-meter diving (men) and the 400 medley relay.

Saturday's competition is divided into three sessions with the first stanza beginning at 9 a.m. The order of events for Saturday's first session include the 200 medley relay, 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, and 800 freestyle relay.

The second session of the day, beginning at 1 p.m., is highlighted by the women's 3-meter diving and the men's 1-meter diving events. The meet concludes with the 3 p.m. session, featuring the 1650 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly and 400 freestyle.

Ball State men's and women's swimming and diving feature 48 top 10 individual times within the Mid-American Conference:

50 Freestyle
1. Austin Laska - 21.25
3. Ben Battjes - 21.43

100 Freestyle
7. Devon Hill - 47.92
9. Austin Laska - 48.04

500 Freestyle
8. Ben Karwoski - 4:51.98
10. Mark Golden - 4:54.26

1000 Freestyle
7. Mark Golden - 10:07.86

1650 Freestyle
3. Ben Karwoski - 16:48.55
5. Mark Golden - 16:55.07
6. Nicholas Stevens - 17:26.98

200 Backstroke
9. Tyler Dixon - 1:59.14

100 Breaststroke
5. Gavin McNeeley - 1:00.05

200 Breaststroke
7. Gavin McNeeley - 2:13.30

100 Butterfly
5. Chris Krupa - 52.46

200 Butterfly
7. Chris Krupa - 1:58.40
10. Andrew Hostetler - 2:00.82

200 IM
6. Chris Krupa - 1:59.25

400 IM
3. Andrew Hostetler - 4:17.60
8. Tony DeBrota - 4:25.68
10. Adam Dale - 4:31.42

200 Freestyle Relay
2. Ball State 'A' (Battjes, Hill, Laska, Casey Schroeder) - 1:25.64

400 Freestyle Relay
2. Ball State 'A' (Battjes, Hill, Laska, Schroeder) - 3:11.39

800 Freestyle Relay
4. Ball State 'A' (DeBrota, Hostetler, Karwoski, Nicholas Stevens) - 7:22.43

200 Medley Relay
2. Ball State 'A' (Dixon, Krupa, Laska, McNeeley) - 1:36.07
7. Ball State 'B' (Jim Aksamit, Battjes, Ryan Misener, Jordan Rantz) - 1:38.64
9. Ball State 'C' (Dale, DeBrota, Schroeder, David Wood) - 1:42.31

400 Medley Relay
2. Ball State 'A' (Dixon, Krupa, Laska, McNeeley) - 3:33.45

1-Meter Diving
10. Jeremy Whited - 227.10

3-Meter Diving
9. Jeremy Whited - 254.40
10. Quinton Rodriguez - 245.85

WOMEN'S

50 Freestyle
3. Katie Bylsma - 23.78

1650 Freestyle
9. Mary Ehresman - 17:47.75

200 Backstroke
6. Sara Hostetler - 2:07.48

100 Butterfly
5. Sara Hostetler - 57.46
7. Maria Gramelspacher - 57.56

200 Butterfly
7. Maria Gramelspacher - 2:07.19
9. Mary Ehresman - 2:07.66
10. Sara Hostetler - 2:07.99

200 Freestyle Relay
7. Ball State 'A' (Bylsma, Jillian Bischoff, Joan Cullen, Nicole Saulters)

400 Freestyle Relay
7. Ball State 'A' (Bylsma, Bischoff, Cullen, Saulters) - 3:34.78

800 Freestyle Relay
9. Ball State 'A' (Bylsma, Cullen, Sarah Kehe, Elizabeth Spilman) - 7:58.60