Green & White Review: April 17
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The Green & White Review is a weekly podcast featuring reporters from The Post's sports staff that provides a comprehensive look at the week in Ohio Athletics.
Swimming & diving
Outside the Aquatic Center, one can find multiple Hemlock trees peppered around, surviving the wintry mix of Athens on Wednesday. The Hemlock tree, which can withstand very heavy snowfall and ice storms, is a metaphor of the struggles the Bobcats withstood this season.
Ohio Athletics set a bad example for the swimming and diving team when it fired its head coach.
On paper, sophomore Addison Ferguson’s 38th place finish in the 100-yard backstroke at the NCAA Championships wasn’t up to par in comparison to her regular season.
The Ohio University women's swimming and diving team cheers together before the start of their meet against University of Buffalo on November 2, 2013. Ohio dominated Buffalo with a final score of 143-89. (EMILY HARGER - STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
Although her teammates are done competing for the season, sophomore Addison Ferguson continues to swim on.
The Ohio University women's swimming and diving team cheers together before the start of their meet against University of Buffalo on November 2, 2013. Ohio dominated Buffalo with a final score of 143-89. (EMILY HARGER - STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
After using an interim head coach for the entire 2013-14 season, Ohio University Director of Athletics Jim Schaus announced the hiring of Rachel Komisarz-Baugh as the new swimming and diving coach Monday.
With the conclusion of Ohio’s diving season at the NCAA Zone Championships this weekend, the Bobcats ended their year with a drip rather than a splash.
After completing the first of three days at the NCAA Zone Championships, diving coach Russ Dekker had honest feelings on the Bobcats’ performances.
Consistency is almost never shown on a stat sheet.
Ohio’s swimming and diving team finished Mid-American Conference competition on March 2 with its worst standing since 1981. The season’s results reminded several of our readers — whose letters you’ll find on this page today — of the sudden and mysterious dismissal of former head coach Greg Werner in October.
Athletics’ decision to fire Werner was a failure to the coach and the Swimming & Diving program.
When the athletics director announced he was firing the very successful swim coach Greg Werner and sending the program in a different direction, he must have meant to the (almost) bottom of the conference! The sixth place finish on March 2 is tied with the program’s worst — 1981 — the first year Women’s Swimming & Diving was in the Mid-American Conference! No alum swimmers or swim parents were surprised with the outcome. The Post editorial staff suggested the student body was owed an explanation for the firing but, of course, none was offered! Here it is: Some disgruntled swimmers went to the AD and complained they had to work too hard and evidently convinced the AD they knew more about training than the coach! That really worked out well! I ache for the freshman swimmers who found themselves in a program they didn’t sign up for, being led by a few entitled, spoiled “athletes.” I hope they run (not walk) to the AD and beg him to rehire Greg for the good of all involved and the program. I would hope the AD is a big enough man to admit he made a mistake. The head coaching position was posted during MAC — a real slap in the face to the current coaches and athletes — and they deserved more respect. As an alumna I am very disgusted with this university in many aspects these days. As well as an alumna, I’m the mother of two alums (’96 and ’99), including a swimmer who swam for Greg for four years. With much hard work and good coaching, Douglas became an excellent distance swimmer. He swam for 17 years, so we had many coaches! Swimming is a sport that requires self-discipline as well as good coaching.
Could Werner’s termination be attributed to athlete complaints or planned program cuts? The public has no way of knowing.
After 72 hours of competition, the Bobcats left the SPIRE Institute in Geneva with thoughts of what "could have been" after finishing in sixth place at the Mid-American Conference Championships.
With the second day of the Mid-American Conference Championships complete, Ohio is slowly running out of time to climb the leaderboards.
At the conclusion of the first day of the Mid-American Conference Championship, the Bobcats find themselves on the outside looking in, but luckily for Ohio, two days of competition remain.
Although its dual meet season has passed, Ohio will channel its early-season adversity in an attempt to win its 12th MAC Championship in program history.