Women's Swimming | 10/19/2019 1:06:00 AM

COMPLETE RESULTS

WEST CHESTER, Pa. - The Bloomsburg University women's swimming team opened the 2019-20 regular season at West Chester University on Friday night with a tri-meet against the Golden Rams and Division I Lehigh University. The Huskies fell to West Chester, 177-59, and suffered a 183-39 setback against the Mountain Hawks. Bloomsburg had some excellent early-season swims on Friday night as the Huskies totaled 14 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) qualifiers.

Bloomsburg had 10 different swimmers post conference-qualifying times on Friday night with only four - senior Becca Cubbler (Royersford, Pa./Spring-Ford), junior Chelsea Ackerson (Hamilton, N.J./Steinert), junior Kelley McHugh (Philadelphia, Pa./Little Flower), and freshman Jenna Park (Mount Joy, PA/Donegal) - finishing with more than one as they each got under the standard in two different events.

Ackerson and Cubbler did their damage in the distance events while Park made her presence felt in the sprints. McHugh, meanwhile, qualified in both the 200-yard individual medley (2:16.47) and 200-yard backstroke (2:15.87) events. Ackerson completed the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:08.25 and, later in the evening, swam a time of 5:26.50 in the 500-yard freestyle. Cubbler posted the Huskies' best time in the 200-yard freestyle (1:56.69) and then placed third overall - trailing only a pair of Lehigh swimmers - in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:13.13. Park, swimming in her first collegiate meet, was sixth in the 50-yard freestyle (24.75) and fourth in the 100-yard freestyle (54.30) - trailing only a trio of Lehigh swimmers in the event.

Another freshman, Courtney Hubric (Mohnton, PA/Governor Mifflin), was third overall in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.32. That time is the 10th-fastest swim in program history in that event. A third freshman - Grace Beierschmitt (Dover, PA/Dover) - also qualified in the 50-yard freestyle after touching the wall in 25.84.

Sophomore Liz Jackson (Mechanicsburg, Pa./Cumberland Valley) joined Cubbler as a qualifier in the 200-yard freestyle as she posted a time of 2:00.72 to finish eighth overall on Friday night. Junior Lindsay Mooney (Salisbury, Md./Parkside), meanwhile, joined Park as qualifiers in the 100-yard freestyle as Mooney touched the wall in 56.17 for an eighth-place result. In the 200-yard backstroke, senior Kiera Wadsworth (Blakeslee, Pa./Ridley) was the Huskies' top finisher as she placed eighth with a time of 2:13.32 - just ahead of McHugh's ninth-place finish. Freshman Alicia Lehman (Pittsburgh, Pa./Keystone Oaks) made it three qualifiers in the event as she finished in 2:16.13 to place 11th overall.

The Huskies' 200-yard freestyle relay team also had a strong swim on Friday night as they took third overall with a time of 1:39.16. The foursome consisted of Park, Mooney, Cubbler, and Hubric.

The Huskies will be back in action on Saturday, October 26, as they host Susquehanna University at the Nelson Field House Pool on Homecoming Weekend. Action is scheduled to get underway at 11:00 a.m.