Women's Swimming | 11/2/2017 4:51:00 PM

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. - The Bloomsburg University women's swimming team will host Edinboro University on Friday, November 3 in the team's home-opening meet of the 2017-18 season. Start time is scheduled for 6:00 p.m. from the Nelson Field House Pool.

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SCOUTING BLOOMSBURG
The Huskies enter the meet with an 0-2 record on the season. Bloomsburg opened the season on October 20 in West Chester and lost to both the Golden Rams (171-66) and to Division I Lehigh (178-59) in a tri-meet. All told, the Huskies recorded 26 PSAC-qualifying times during the season-opening event.

Redshirt senior Nikki Young (Eagleville, Pa./Methacton), who missed all of last season due to an injury, made a triumphant return to the pool for the Huskies. She earned Bloomsburg's only victory of the night in the 200-yard breaststroke and posted a second-place finish in the 200-yard individual medley. Young also was part of the Huskies' 400-yard medley relay team that finished in second place on Friday night. Young won the 200-yard breaststroke by nearly four seconds as she touched the wall in 2:24.72. Her second-place time in the 200-yard individual medley was clocked at 2:11.22. The redshirt senior opened the night by joining sophomore Kiera Wadsworth (Blakeslee, Pa./Ridley), senior Courtney Middleton (Vineland, N.J./Vineland) , and sophomore Becca Cubbler (Royersford, Pa./Spring-Ford) in posting a time of 3:55.08 in the 400-yard medley relay.

Junior Sydney Mercer (Bloomsburg, Pa./Millville) also had a strong evening for the Huskies as she finished second in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:07.22. Mercer also finished fifth in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:13.23. Cubbler picked up where she left off as a freshman a year ago after posting a fifth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:55.70 and a fourth-place result in the 100-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 54.15, to go along with her 400-yard medley relay team placing second in the opening race of the night.

Freshman Chelsea Ackerson (Hamilton, N.J./Steinert) opened her collegiate career in fine fashion after strong swims in a pair of distance events on Friday. She finished seventh in the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:53.50 and then touched the wall in seventh in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:22.15. Fellow rookie Lindsay Mooney (Salisbury, Md./Parkside) also started strong with three top ten finishes - sixth in the 50-yard freestyle, ninth in the 100-yard freestyle, and fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Her time in the 50-yard freestyle was tops on the team while her relay team also consisted of sophomore Kaitlyn Floyd (Mertztown, Pa./Kutztown), senior Kate Cossitor (Morgantown, Pa./Twin Valley), and redshirt junior Marykate Boylan (Edgemont, Pa./Penncrest).

SCOUTING EDINBORO
Edinboro enters the meet with an 0-1 record in dual competition on the season. The Fighting Scots dropped a season-opening decision against IUP, 111-93, on October 21. Yana Miletska won three events and Katelyn Kopacko took home two, including a relay, to lead the Edinboro, which had six different swimmers post qualifying times for the PSAC Championships. Miletska won the 200-yard IM (2:10.57), the 200-yard butterfly (2:12.01), and the 200-yard breaststroke (2:26.49). All three were in qualifying time for the PSAC Championships. Kopacko took first in the 50-yard free with a qualifying time of 24.63. She then teamed with Nicole Kadlecik, Kaitlyn Daiger, and Morgan Joseph to win the 200-yard free relay in a PSAC qualifying time (1:41.00).

Edinboro then went on to finish second at the Westminster Relays on October 27. Jessie Bliss, Kaitlyn Daiger, Morgan Joseph, Yana Miletska, and Casey Tokarski all won two races on the evening.

UP NEXT
The Huskies will return to the Nelson Field House Pool on Friday, November 10, when they host Clarion University. Start time is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.