MISCA DREAM TEAM - DIVING
CHEYENNE COUSINEAU

BOB ANDREWS - BOOSTERS OUTSTANDING ATHLETE
CHEYENNE COUSINEAU

MONROE EVENING NEWS - REGIONAL DIVER OF THE YEAR
CHEYENNE COUSINEAU

REGIONAL CHAMPION-DIVING (415 points)
CHEYENNE COUSINEAU

18TH STATE TOURNAMENT
52 POINTS- STATE CHAMPION
DIVING - CHEYENNE COUSINEAU (433.70 POINTS)
KIRSTIN STARK - 3RD - 50 FREE (24.26) & 3RD - 100 FREE (52.84)

SEC SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD
SARAH WISNIEWSKI

MONROE EVENING NEWS - SPECIAL MENTION - COACH
HOLLY SCHEFFER

Record
 SEC 1-1 Overall 2-6

8-30-07
Bedford 117 Adrian 67

200 Medley Relay-1st -Candice Kent, Shannon Heasley, Kelsey Koren, Annie Pennington-2.06 (MISCA Qualification)
200 Free-1st-Kirstin Stark-2:01.59 (State Qualification)
200 IM-Julia Ferriera-2.31
50 Free-A. Pennington-27.84, Diving-Cheyenne Cousineau-272.25 (NEW POOL & SCHOOL RECORD, MISCA Qualification)
100 Fly-K. Stark-1.01.07 (State Qualification)
200 Free Relay-Stark, Koren, K. Jones, J. Ferriera-1.50 (MISCA Qualification)
100 Back-J. Ferriera-1.12
100 Breaststroke-S. Heasley-1.16
400 Free Relay-Stark, Pennington, Kent, Ferriera-4:06 (MISCA Qualification) 100 Free-Candice Kent-2nd, Jones-3rd
500 Free-A. Kleman-2nd, J. Sutter-3rd
Diving-Jessica Sloan-2nd

9-6-07
Bedford 47 Dexter 149
Kirstin Stark- won the 200 IM with a state qualification time and a new school record of 2:17.65. She also won the 100 Butterfly with a state qualification of 1:02.

Cheyenne Cousineau won the Diving portion with 260.90 pts.

Honorable mentions-
Rachel Zimmerman - PRd in 200 Free
Annie Pennington -PRd in 200IM
Alicia Kleman - PR for season in 500 Free Elizabeth Dickey, Nicole Farher and Britt. Knauss in the 100 Breaststroke.

9-13-07
Bedford 51 Saline 135
The score however does not reflect the 75% plus seasonal and personal bests last night. It is amazing what people will do for an extra 15 minutes of sleep in the morning. The deal that was made before the meet was that if 75% of the swims were bests, then morning practice would start 15 minutes late this morning. I am happy to say that we started practice late today!

200 Medley Relay- 2nd Julia Ferreira, Shannon Heasley, Kirstin Stark and Katelyn Jones- Getting closer to state cut.
50 Free- Kirstin Stark- 1st and state qualification
Diving- Cheyenne Cousineau- 1st and new pool record.
100 Butterfly- Kirstin Stark -1st and state qualfication
500 Free was a super event for us as far as personal bests. All the girls hit the times that they were striving for for the end of season. I guess we will have to set new goals.- Jessica Sutter-3rd, Alicia Kleman 5th, Emily Soster and Sarah Wisniewski
100 Breaststroke-3rd Shannon Heasley
400 Free Relay 2nd- Kirstin Stark, Katelyn Jones, Annie Pennington, and Julia Ferriera

Over all - Super jobs!!

9-14,15-07
SMISL Relay
Bedford competed in our first SMISL Relay meet today.
It was a great experience and we were blessed with a runner-up trophy.
This is our first ever trophy!!!
The meet was close all the way through the meet, but came down to the last event. Going into the last event, Tecumseh had a solid lead, and we were 2 points down to Milan. Milan won the relay, but our A relay finished 2nd and our B finished 6th which scored us higher than Milan's B team.
Bottomline, we continuously had more depth today.
Todays' victory over Milan belongs to our B relays who held their own.

The girls just really swam well today. We had many seasonal bests for splits today. I could not be happier.

Here are the final results of the meet.
Tecumseh-472, Bedford-364, Milan-362, Woodhaven-322 Adrian-288, Ypsilanti-162

Diving- Cheyenne Cousineau/Jessica Sloan- 1st
200 Medley- 2nd place, Julia Ferriera, Shannon Heasley, Kirstin Stark, Annie Pennington - (less than second off of state cut now!)
200 Free Relay-3rd place, Katelyn Jones, Candice Kent, Kelsey Koren, Shannon Heasley 6th place- Relay B, Erica Przeniczny, Jessica Sloan, Rachel Zimmerman, Elizabeth Dickey
500 Free Relay- 2nd , Koren, Jones, Stark, Pennington, Zimmerman
300 Backstroke Relay- 4th, Sam Kitzmiller, Ferreira, Kent, Emily Soster
300 Butterfly Relay- 2nd, Pennington, Koren, Stark, Jessica Sutter
300 Breaststroke Relay- 1st, Elizabeth Dickey, Ferriera, Shannon Heasley, Melanie Ruetz
200 Under/Over Relay- 2nd, Jones, Ruetz, Kent, Stark

Great Job girls!

9-20-07
Bedford 59 AA Huron 127
Bedford 75 Grose Point North 111
KIRSTIN STARK-1st - 100 Free (NEW SCHOOL RECORD - 55.25),
KIRSTIN STARK-1st 200IM (NEW SCHOOL RECORD - 2:16.44),
Diving- Cheyenne Cousineau - 1st , Rachel Zimmerman-100 & 200 Free-7 secs total. (PB), Katelyn Jones-200 IM -6 secs & 100 Free -1 sec (PB), Jessica Sutter-500 Free 4 secs & 2 secs 100 Free (PB), Allison Maison-100 Free -7 secs (PB), Stephanie Pekan-100 Butterfly -7 secs (PB), Nichole Fahrer-100 Breast stroke -3 secs (PB), Sarah Wisniewski-500 Free -7 secs (PB), Elizabeth Dickey-Letter qualification-200 IM, Brittany Knauss-Letter Qualification-200 IM.

10-2-07
Bedford 78 Monroe 108
Congrats to the High School Swim Team for an awesome meet against Monroe. It was a close meet all the way through. The final score was Bedford 78, Monroe 108.
Three new school records were set last night.
Cheyenne Cousineau had a personal best of over 20 points in the diving competition. She finished first by over 100 points. 298.9 points Kirstin Stark broke her 100 butterfly record and finished first.1:00.50 Shannon Heasley broke the 100 Breaststroke record as a result of shaving off 1 second from her personal best.1.14.10 Other outstanding performances were Jessica Sloan in the diving, Jessica Sutter in the 200 and 500 Free, Annie Pennington in the 50 and 100 Free ,Erica Przeniczny in the 100 Backstroke, and last but not least… Nicole Fahrer in the 100 Breaststroke!
Super meet girls!

10-5-07
Tecumseh Invitational
The Bedford team did very well.
We started the morning off with Two wins.
Cheyenne Cousineau dominated the Freshman/Sophomore diving division(386.81 pts). Senior Jessica Sloan finished first(240.40 pts) in the Jr/Sr. diving event followed by teammate, Jr. Lauren Malicki in third place with 209.35 pts.

Sophomore Kirstin Stark finished first in the Fr/So division in the 200 Free (1.58.25 *New school record) and first in the 100 Butterfly (1.02)

Freshman, Jessica Sutter finished 3rd in the 200 Free and 2nd in the 500 Free. Both were personal bests.

Jr. Rachel Zimmerman finished 3rd in the 200 Free.

Freshmen Annie Pennington and Katelyn Jones finished 3rd and 4th in the 200 IM.

Pennington also won the Fresh/Soph 100 Freestyle
(59.86)

200 Free Relay team of Pennington, Stark, Jones and Elizabeth Dickey- finished first with almost a school record. (1.48.63)

The Jr/Sr 200 Free relay of Shannon Heasley, Lauren Malicki, Kelsey Koren and Rachel Zimmerman finished 2nd in their division.

Julia Ferreira and Candice Kent went 2-3 in the Jr/Sr 100 Backstroke. Both swam best times.

Jr. Shannon Heasley broke the school record in the 100 Breaststroke and finished 2nd in her division.
(1:13.38)
The relay of Stark, Jones, Pennington, and Sutter finished first in the Fr/So division of the 400 Free relay.

The relay of Kent, Zimmerman, Malicki and Ferriera finished 2nd in the Jr/Sr 400 Free Relay.

All together, we swam well. No points were scored, just good competition and recognition. It was a long day, but we were successful.

10-11-07
Bedford 145 Lincoln 42
Congrats to the Varsity Swim/Dive team on their 2nd victory of the season. Last night the Bedford varsity dominated Lincoln High school with a 145-42 victory.
The Mules took first in all of the events and in most cases, swept the events.

First place finished include all the A relays,
Jr. Jessica Boraggina in the 200 free, Sr. Julia Ferriera in the 200 IM, Jr. Shannon Heasley in the 50 and 100 Breaststroke, Soph. Cheyenne Cousinea in diving,Soph.
Jessica Sutter in 100 Fly, Soph. Kirstin Stark in the 100 Free, Jr. Rachel Zimmerman in the 500 free, and Jr. Candice Kent in the 100 Backstroke.
We had many other best times of the season last night.
Honorable mentions are Meg Bellue in the100 Back, Emily Soster and Sarah Wisniewski in the 500 free.
Good Job Bedford.

10-12-07
MISCA Meet @ Eastern Michigan
Exciting! Sophomore Cheyenne Cousineau won the MISCA meet in the diving portion. After 11 dives, Cheyenne finished with 441.20 points to claim victory. The MISCA meet was/is held at the EMU pool and is by qualification only. Only the top 32 divers in the state qualify for the Friday night competition , and the top 60 swimmers in each event qualify to swim on Saturday. It is a glimpse of what the state meets will be like.

Wow! We had an amazing meet! We saw a lot of tough athletes while we were there. Cheyenne finished 1st in diving. Kirstin Stark finished 3rd in both the 50 free *new record-24.46, and the 100 Butterfly *new
record- 1:00.09.
Our 200 Medley Relay of , Julia Ferriera, Shannon Heasley, Kirstin Stark and Annie Pennington made their state qualification today. 1:58.11!!!

Shannon Heasley swam the 100 Breaststroke at MISCA with a time of 1:15.

The 400 Free relay of Stark, Pennington, Katelyn Jones and Candice Kent had a great performance breaking their time by 4 seconds, however were dqd.

Kirstin Stark led the 400 free relay off with at 100 free time of 53.49 also breaking her previous school record.

10-16-07
Bedford 75 Chelsea 111

Over all we swam well. This was not one of our better meets, but there were still some good results.

200 Medley Relay - Julia Ferriera, Shannon Heasley, Kirstin Stark, and Annie Pennington finished first.

200 IM- 1st= Kirstin Stark, 3rd = Julia Ferriera 50 Free 2nd = Annie Pennington
Diving- 1st= Cheyenne, 3rd = Jessica Sloan 100 Fly- 1st= Kirstin Stark 500 Free = 2nd = Jessica Sutter, 3rd= Alicia Kleman 100 Breaststroke = 1st= Shannon Heasley 400 Free Relay = 1st , Pennington, Candice Kent, Ferriera, Stark.

Honorable Mentions- Megan Bellue swam a best 100 Back,

Sam Kitzmiller and Nicole Fahrer both swam varsity letter qualifications in their events too!

10-18-07
Bedford 86 Tecumseh 100
Whew! We have successfully completed our dual meet season. We finish with two wins and two close meets.
Tonight was a close one. It won't be long before we can mark the Tecumseh meet as a Win. Tonights final score was Bedford 86, Tecumseh 100.
Here are the results

200 Medley Relay- 1st place Ferriera, Heasley, Stark, and Pennington.
200 Free- 2nd place- Jessica Sutter
50 Free- 1st pLace- Kirstin Stark
Diving- 1st place, Cheyenne Cousinea, 2nd place- Jessica Sloan 100 Butterfly- 1st place- Kirstin Stark 100 Free- 2nd place- Annie Pennington 500 Free- 2nd place- Jessica Sutter 200 Free Relay- 2nd place- Jones, Koren, Malicki, Amber Kallenberg 100 Backstroke- Julia Ferriera- 2nd place 100 Breaststroke- 1st place- Shannon Heasley 400 Free Relay- 1st place Stark, Pennington, Katelyn Jones, Candice Kent

Honorable Mentions-
Jessica Boraggina- PR in 200 IM
Kayla Shackle- PR in 50 free
Kelsey Koren- PR in 100 fly
Rachel Zimmerman- PR in 100 Free
Alicia Kleman PR in 200 and 500 Free
Lauren Malicki- PR in Diving

11-2/3-07
SEC Championships

The final scores were as follows:
AAP-755.5
DEX-525
Saline-440.5
AAH-345
Chelsea-256
Bedford- 197
Tecumseh-178
Adrian- 108
Lincoln-76

Kirstin Stark finished 1st in the 50 free with a time of 24.52 seconds. She also finished 2nd in the 100 Butterfly with a time of 1:00.09

Cheyenne Cousineau finished 1st in diving with a score of 433.60

Other swimmers/divers to place are as follows:
200 Medley Relay- 6th place (Ferriera, Heasley, Stark,
Pennington)
200 IM- Katelyn Jones- 16th, Julia Ferriera-17th 50 Free- Stark-1st, Annie Pennington 20th
Diving- Cousineau- 1st, Jessica Sloan-13th, Lauren Malicki-17th 100 Butterfly- Stark-2nd 100 Free- Pennington-25th 500 Free- Jessica Sutter-17th

200 Free Relay-8th (Jones,Heasley,Kelsey
Koren,Malicki)
100 Breaststroke- Shannon Heasley- 10th
Julia Ferriera-14th
400 Free Relay- 7th (Jones, Pennington, Candice Kent,
Stark) * New school record- 3:55.13

We are in the middle of our taper and I am excited to see how well we will swim at SMISL where it will be more of a head to head competition for us.

I would also like to commend the Bedford distance swimmers on their awesome performances in the 500 free. I had a great time watching you PR! Good job, Emily Soster, Sarah Wisniewski, Alicia Kleman and Jessica Sutter!
Also, Congratulations to Sarah Wisniewski for being nominated Bedfords' SEC Sportsmanship award

11-10-07
SMISL
Bedford finished 2nd in the SMISL to Tecumseh, but separated ourselves well from Milan. The final scores were as follows.
Tecumseh-363, Bedford-287.5, Milan-229.5, Adrian- 206, Woodhaven-196 and Ypsilanti-113.

Individual and Relay places were as follows: Top 12 scored.

200 Medley Relay- Ferriera, HEasley, Stark, Pennington bettered their state cut and placed 3rd.

200 Medley B - Kent, Dickey, Koren, Sloan finished 9th.

200 Free-Jessica Sutter 7th, Rachel Zimmerman 12th 200 IM- Kirstin Stark- 1st *New School Record, Katelyn
Jones- 5th
Julian Ferriera-7th
Jessica Boraggina-12th

50 Free- Annie Pennington 2nd - 26.05, Shannon Heasley 8th, Kelsey Koren-11th

Diving- Cheyenne Cousineau 1st , * New Pool Record with 468.20 pts, Jessica Sloan- 7th, Lauren Malicki-11th

100 Butterfly- Kirstin Stark 1st, Kelsey Koren-5th, Jessica Boraggina- 10th.

100 Freestyle- Annie Pennington 1st 57.95, Katelyn Jones-9th, Lauren Malicki, 11th, Rachel Zimmerman-12th

500 Free- Jessica Sutter- 6th, Alicia Kleman-11th

200 Free RElay A- Jones, Heasley, Koren, Malicki- 4th 200 Relay B- 9th, Erica Przeniczny, Jessica Sloan, Rachel Zimmerman, Jessica Sutter.

100 Backstroke- Julia Ferriera 5th, Candice Kent 10th

100 Breaststroke- Shannon Heasley 2nd * New School
Record* 1:12.72 (Missed state cut by less than a
second!)
Melanie Ruetz and Elizabeth Dickey- tied for 11th.

400 Free Relay- A- Jones, Pennington, Kent, Stark- 2nd *New School Record-3:53.53,

400 Free Relay B- Sutter, Zimmerman,Malicki, Ferriera 5th

Many more of the girls had personal bests, and that is all you can ask for from anyone! It has been a pleasure to coach you this year!
We still have one more meet to officially end our season, Kirstin, Cheyenne, Annie, Julia, and Shannon will be ready to do well again next week at state!

11-13-07
Diving Regionals

Cheyenne Cousineau finished first in the diving regional held at Pioneer tonight. She finished with 415 pts. She is now officially off to the State competition.

11-16/17-07
State Meet

Day 1
We started off with a season best in the 200 Medley Relay. Julia Ferriera, Shannon Heasley,Kirstin Stark and Annie Pennington finished 21st over all. They were originally seeded 24th.
Kirstin Stark then competed in the 50 and 100 freestyle. She set two new school records and will be swimming in tomorrows finals. She is seeded 4th in the 50 with a time of 24.2 seconds and 5th in the 100 free with at time of 52.99 seconds.

Diver, Cheyenne Cousineau dove really well today as well and after 8 dives, she is tied for first place with a senior from Forest Hills. She still has a couple of her better and high degree of difficulty dives to do tomorrow.

Day 2
We now officially have a state champ at Bedford in the diving. Cheyenne Cousineau performed three beautiful dives to win today. Her final score was 433.70. Second place was 417 and third was 408.
Great Job Cheyenne!

Kirstin Stark also had a great meet today. She finished both of her races in 3rd place and with personal bests. She swam a 24.26 seconds in the 50 Free and a 52.84 in the 100 Free.