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Courtney Kostival Assistant Coach Second season E-mail: kostival@buffalo.edu Phone: 716-645-6868 Office: 89 Alumni Arena

No stranger to Mid-American Conference swimming, Courtney Kostival is in her second season as an assistant coach with the University at Buffalo after a stellar collegiate career.

Kostival spent six seasons at fellow MAC institution Ohio University, swimming for four years and later joining the Bobcat coaching staff as a graduate assistant for the next two years. At Ohio, Kostival worked primarily with the distance swimmers. Kostival is one of three from the UB coaching staff with ties to Ohio University as head coach Andy Bashor was a graduate assistant from 1996-98 and UB assistant coach Aaron Bell served as an Ohio graduate assistant in the 2006-07 season.

While swimming for the Bobcats, the Athens, OH native helped Ohio win the 2001 MAC Championship, the last time that UB’s Alumni Arena Natatorium hosted the MAC Championships. She capped off the 2001 season by being named Ohio’s Most Improved Swimmer.

Kostival swam in the 200, 500 and 1,650-yard freestyle during her time with the Bobcats and was selected to the Academic All-MAC team following her junior season. In her junior season, she was selected to the Academic All-MAC team and earned Ohio’s Tad Potter Award for excellence in leadership following both the 2003 and 2004 seasons. Kostival ended her athletic career with championship finishes in the 500 and 1,650-yard freestyle races at the 2004 MAC Championships.