North, Boucher Get 19th & 23rd in 100 Freestyle at 2012 NCAA Swimming Championships

Boise State's Stephanie North & Amber Boucher swam like the veteran NCAA Championship swimmers that they are, finishing 19th and 23rd in the 100-yard freestyle preliminaries this morning. Both just missed qualifying for the finals tonight by less than 15/100th's of a second.

 Event 17  Women 100 Yard Freestyle
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         NCAA: ! 46.61  2/18/2012 Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace, Auburn
     American: @ 46.84  12/4/2011 Natalie Coughlin, Cal
    U.S. Open: # 46.61  2/18/2012 Ariana Vanderpool-Wallace, Auburn
  Auburn Pool: $ 47.29  2003      Maritza Correia, Georgia
                 47.84  A Standard
                 50.23  B Standard
    Name           Year School               Seed    Prelims              
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                      === Preliminaries ===                       
 
  1 Romano, Megan    JR Georgia             47.65      47.05$qA     
                 10.95        22.77 (11.82)
          35.02 (12.25)       47.05 (12.03)
  2 Geer, Margo      SO Arizona             47.32      47.22$qA     
                 10.89        22.69 (11.80)
          34.95 (12.26)       47.22 (12.27)
  3 Bispo, Karlee    SR Texas               47.92      47.58 qA     
                 11.12        23.04 (11.92)
          35.27 (12.23)       47.58 (12.31)
  4 Vanderpool-Wall  SR Auburn              46.61      47.62 qA     
                 10.87        22.82 (11.95)
          35.25 (12.43)       47.62 (12.37)
  5 Jensen, Liv      SR Cal Berkeley        47.42      47.71 qA     
                 10.86        22.84 (11.98)
          35.37 (12.53)       47.71 (12.34)
  6 Murez, Andrea    JR Stanford            48.51      47.82 qA     
                 11.02        22.97 (11.95)
          35.36 (12.39)       47.82 (12.46)
  7 Stafford, Shara  SR Missouri            47.96      48.01 qB     
                 10.95        22.94 (11.99)
          35.53 (12.59)       48.01 (12.48)
  8 Schaefer, Madel  FR Stanford            48.50      48.29 qB     
                 11.04        23.28 (12.24)
          35.76 (12.48)       48.29 (12.53)
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  9 Webb, Elizabeth  SR Stanford            48.38      48.36 qB     
                 10.98        23.03 (12.05)
          35.58 (12.55)       48.36 (12.78)
 10 Locus, Madeline  FR Georgia             48.51      48.48 qB     
                 11.28        23.43 (12.15)
          36.16 (12.73)       48.48 (12.32)
 10 Landgrebe, Shan  JR Arizona St          48.60      48.48 qB     
                 11.03        23.29 (12.26)
          35.94 (12.65)       48.48 (12.54)
 12 Bateman, Sarah   SR Florida             49.02      48.49 qB     
                 11.01        23.13 (12.12)
          35.83 (12.70)       48.49 (12.66)
 12 Vreeland, Shann  SO Georgia             48.80      48.49 qB     
                 11.30        23.60 (12.30)
          36.10 (12.50)       48.49 (12.39)
 14 Woodward, Saman  SR Stanford            48.60      48.56 qB     
                 11.03        23.18 (12.15)
          35.87 (12.69)       48.56 (12.69)
 15 Thompson, Rebec  SR Wisconsin           48.28      48.58 qB     
                 11.05        23.39 (12.34)
          35.95 (12.56)       48.58 (12.63)
 16 Simmons, Caroli  JR Tennessee           49.10      48.68 qB     
                 11.20        23.37 (12.17)
          35.89 (12.52)       48.68 (12.79)
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 17 Flederbach, Kai  SO Arizona             49.15      48.79 B      
                 11.40        23.58 (12.18)
          36.18 (12.60)       48.79 (12.61)
 18 Amundsen, Kelse  JR Texas               48.80      48.83 B      
                 11.03        23.18 (12.15)
          35.96 (12.78)       48.83 (12.87)
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 19 North, Stephani  SR Boise St            48.34      48.85 B      
                 11.41        23.71 (12.30)
          36.27 (12.56)       48.85 (12.58)
 19 Riordan, Hannah  JR Auburn              49.47      48.85 B      
                 11.19        23.32 (12.13)
          36.11 (12.79)       48.85 (12.74)
 21 Scott, Olivia    SO Auburn              49.22      48.87 B      
                 11.32        23.69 (12.37)
          36.44 (12.75)       48.87 (12.43)
 21 Swartz, Traycie  SO Univ of Utah        48.70      48.87 B      
                 11.06        23.15 (12.09)
          36.00 (12.85)       48.87 (12.87)
 23 Boucher, Amber   SR Boise St            48.51      48.92 B      
                 11.41        23.70 (12.29)
          36.29 (12.59)       48.92 (12.63)

Potvin-Green Leads Boise State to Win over Southern Utah

Junior Brittany Potvin-Green became the star last night that the Boise State gymnastics team has been looking for.
 

Potvin-Green tied for the second-best all-around performance in school history as #15 Boise State dazzled the crowd with a 196.850 score, the fifth-best in Bronco history.  And even better in multiple ways:  they did it on the road at Southern Utah.  Hitting 196 to 197 was a must if the team has any aspirations of advancing past the NCAA Regionals, for that is the score that Top 10 teams get each and every week.  The Thunderbirds had an excellent night as well, scoring 195.875 to do themselves proud.


Potvin-Green earned her fourth all-around title with a career-best 39.575.  Potvin-Green tied the mark set in 2004 by Carla Chambers for second all-time at Boise State.  Brittany is now tied for the #6 spot for single season all-around victories.  

"Brittany had a great night tonight," said co-head coach Tina Bird. "She did some exciting gymnastics, but it was a true team effort from top to bottom. Senior Lindsay Kazandjian was a superstar on bars and beam. I'm so proud of her.  Amanda (Otuafi) did so great tonight as well.  She was really rooting her teammates on and stuck an amazing vault to earn a 9.90!"

Boise State set the pace from the beginning, posting a team score of 49.350 on bars, the best this season and fourth-best bars score on Bronco gymnastics history.  After sitting out the past two weeks, Amy Glass returned with a vengeance.  Glass tied her career-best of 9.925 to win the event, her sixth career win on bars.  Freshman Ciera Perkins finished second with a career-beat 9.90.  The Broncos did what they had to do to jump to the next level, with no bar score below 9.80.  Potvin-Green and Caitlin Mann each turned in 9.850 scores and Kelsey Black and Lindsay Kazandjian each had 9.8's.

The Lady Broncos did not skip a beat on vault with a 49.350, fourth-best in the record books.  Potvin-Green moved into a tie for eighth with her fifth win of the season, scoring 9.925.   Otuafi hit a 9.90, while Perkins and Black each scored 9.850.  Erica Oswalt earned a 9.825 score from the judges while Mann scored 9.80.  Once again, no Bronco under 9.8.

Potvin-Green nailed a 9.90 floor routine to get her second win of the night.  Otuafi and Perkins each had 9.825 scores, but on this event, three Broncos were below 9.80.

Boise State also posted the seventh-best beam routine last night with a 49.250.  Potvin-Green earned a career-best 9.90 to place second while Bekah Gher scored a 9.875.  Kazandjian had a great routine (9.850) while Glass scored 9.825 and Alessandra Cinfio 9.80.  Only one Bronco was below 9.80 on the beam.

Mann gave the Broncos a powerful 1-2 punch by finishing second all-around with a career-best 39.00.

Southern Utah posted team scores of 48.950 on vault, 48.950 on bars, a fantastic 49.300 on beam and 48.675 on the floor.  Alyssa Click captured the balance beam title with a 9.925.

Boise State concludes the regular season next week when they host BYU Friday, March 23.  The meet gets underway at 7 p.m. in Taco Bell Arena and will be highlighted by "Senior Night".