@OspreySwim Falls to FGCU in CCSA Action

Tuesday, December 16

Ft. Myers, Fla.

10:00 a.m.

University of North Florida

157

Florida Gulf Coast

Complete Results (PDF)

12/16/2014 3:48:00 PM | Women's Swimming

FORT MYERS, Fla. – The North Florida women's swim team was taken down by last year's Coastal Collegiate Swim Association runner-up, Florida Gulf Coast this afternoon, 157-92. Today marked the first of two meets scheduled in two days for the Ospreys.

"I'm happy the way we competed, we're coming off a couple really good days of training," said Head Coach Ian Coffey. "We were up against some really good competition in FGCU and I'm confident we'll continue to get better."

Sophomore Angel Morrison was the team's lone event winner, touching the wall first in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:03.04. She came into the meet with the 16^th fastest time in the conference this season in the 50 backstroke when she swam a time of 28.29 in the Oct. 16 tri-meet with West Florida and Vanderbilt.
Freshmen Chase Walker and Taylor Schmidinger gave the Ospreys seven points with second and third place finish in the 50 freestyle. Walker was just out-touched by FGCU's Sara Hamilton and recorded a time of 25.30. Schmidinger was right behind her with a time of 25.65.

North Florida got another solid performance out of junior Amy Taylor who swam the fastest 200 freestyle time of the season this morning with a time of 1:54.44. Today's stellar swim helped her move up the CCSA Top 24 times list to number 13.

The Ospreys nearly turned in the fastest 200 freestyle in the meet's final event. The four-swimmer combination of Rebeca Bernard, Maria Bernard, Walker and Schmidinger posted a time of 1:41.86, a little under a second under the team's best time in 2014.
The two meets are a part of a four-day mini training trip designed by Coffey to help North Florida prepare CCSA Championships in mid-February. Tomorrow the Ospreys will travel to Miami for a dual meet with Florida International. The meet is scheduled for 11:00 a.m.