United States Coast Guard Academy - Department of Athletics

NORTON, MASS.--(11/12/11)--Senior Heidi Gayman won the 100 freestyle and was part of the winning 400 freestyle relay team as Coast Guard beat Wheaton 182-109 and lost to NYU 198-99 at Wheaton College.

Gayman won the 100 freestyle with a time of 56.05 and Terri Jozsa captured the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:35.41

The Bears 400 freestyle relay team of Caitlyn Gever, Sarah Jane Otey, Chantel Ferguson and Gayman won with a time of 3:45.63.

Ferguson was second in both the 100 butterfly (1:02.04) and the 200 butterfly (2:18.42), Gayman placed second in the 200 freestyle (2:01.05) and Otey was second in the 100 freestyle (56.44).

Women's Swimming - Bears Drop Season Opener

NEW PALTZ, N.Y.--(11/5/11)--Junior Terri Jozsa won a pair of events, but Coast Guard dropped its season opener 143-114 at SUNY-New Paltz.

Jozsa won both the 100 breaststroke (1:13.12) and the 200 breaststroke (2:33:72) to lead the Bears.

Darlene Sao won the 200 IM for Coast Guard in 2:19.83 while senior Heidi Gayman captured the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:00.40.

Sao and Gayman teamed with freshman Caitlyn Gever and sophomore Chantel Ferguson to win the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 3:47.97.

Women's Swimming - 2011-12 Season Preview

Heidi Gayman is the defending NEWMAC champion in the 200 freestyle.

After an extremely successful year the Bears will look to build off of that campaign. While the dual meet record was not spectacular, they over-performed at the NEWMAC conference meet in 2011, with a meet that rewrote the record board with 13 new school records. This season the returning athletes will serve as the core of a team that is poised to move forward.

Leading the women are senior captains, Christa Funk, NEWMAC champion Heidi Gayman and Jordan Mestemaker. Joining them in the senior class is Sarah Jane Otey a two-time NCAA qualifier, who has been named a first boat All-America rower in the spring of 2011. Jennilee Williams rounds out the senior class.

The Bears have potential for relays to swim into the qualifying mix for NCAA competition with a rapidly improving roster and some new additions. After having graduated the largest women’s class in program history, the strength of the team will come from the core of athletes making dramatic improvement. The strength of the rising sophomores will come to the forefront after completing the rigorous freshman year.

Kim Shadwick earned All-America honors in all three races she swam at the NCAA Championships this week.

KNOXVILLE, TENN.--(3/26/11)--Senior Kim Shadwick closed out her magnificent career and outstanding week by earning All-America honors for the third time this week, this time in the 1,650 freestyle at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships at the University of Tennessee.

She totaled 40 points for the Bears in the team scoring and that was good enough to herself have Coast Guard finish 22nd overall at the meet, the best ever finish and most points scored by the Bears at the NCAA Championships. Darby Schlaht scored 37 points for Coast Guard in 2000.

Shadwick broke her own school-record with a time of 17:06.01 in the 1,650 freestyle to finish seventh and earn her third All-America honor of the week. The record she broke was one she set at the NCAA Championship last year she placed 10th with a time of 17:09.23.

She was a perfect 3 for 3 this week earning All-America honors in all three races, the 500 freestyle, the 200 freestyle and finally the 1,650 freestyle, the first three of her career.