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Peggy Ewald to serve on Team USA Swim Team coaching staff at Paralympic Games in Beijing, China
By Steven Wright
ADA — Ohio Northern head swimming and diving coach Peggy Ewald will travel to Beijing, China, for the Paralympic Games Sept. 6-17 as a member of the US Paralympic Swimming Team coaching staff.
She has been a part of the Team USA Paralympic coaching staff since 2004 and has been the ONU swimming and diving coach since 2004, winning five OAC team titles, including four men’s crowns in succession.
Ewald was the head coach of Team USA at the ParaPanAm Games in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil in 2007.
Four swimmers named Academic All-Conference
ADA — Four menbers of the Ohio Northern women's swimmers and diving team earned At-Large All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors as voted upon by the league’s ten faculty representatives.
Sophomore Terri Lynn Shigle (Irwin, Pa./Penn-Trafford) earned First Team honors and sophomores Jillian Huber (Glandorf/Ottawa-Glandorf), Katherine Moore (Chicago, Ill./Marian Catholic) and Lacey Shumate (Bucyrus/Colonel Crawford) each earned Honorable mention honors.
Polar Bears finish second at OAC Championships
AKRON — The Ohio Northern women’s swimming and diving team finished second at the 2008 Ohio Athletic Conference Championships Thursday-Saturday at the University of Akron's Ocasek Natatorium.
Upcoming Women's Swimming & Diving Meets
