BRIANNE MCGUIRK CALVERT
Swimming, 1999-2003
Inducted February 7, 2009

Brianne McGuirk was one of the first dominant performers in a specialty event in the fledgling Bears' women's swimming and diving program as she competed in the breaststroke from 1999 to 2003 for coach Jack Steck. A native of El Paso, Texas, McGuirk is the first Missouri State women's swimmer ever to win an individual event in conference competition as she collected a double at the Missouri Valley Conference meet her freshman season by winning both the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke races. That began a string of four straight years of all-conference honors for McGuirk as she was among the league's top five in the 100-yard race every year and won the 200-yard event all four seasons. In addition, she swam the breaststroke leg on Bears' medley relay teams in both regular season and conference competition. Steck's Bears posted a 35-23 record in dual meet competition in McGuirk's four seasons at MSU, and brought the school its first conference title in just the program's fifth season, winning the MVC crown in 2003 when McGuirk was a senior co-captain. She finished with four school records and one Hammons Center pool mark. The mother of one-year old twin daughters, McGuirk works as an information technology specialist in Springfield.