Ladies Win Outright, Males Place Third in Swim & Dive’s Potomac Relay Invite

WASHINGTON – The ladies’s workforce captured the outright win for the primary time since 2019, and the boys’s workforce positioned third for the primary time since 2021 as American University swimming & diving hosted the annual Potomac Relay Invitational on Friday towards Georgetown, George Mason, Howard, Mount St. Mary’s, and Mary Washington. The Eagles captured two wins and two second-place finishes out of 9 occasions on their solution to the win for the ladies.

Notable

• The ladies’s workforce, successful outright with 456 factors after tying for the win final season, earned wins within the 3×100 breaststroke relay and the 2×500 freestyle relay. They positioned second in each the 200 medley relay and the 800 freestyle relay.
• On the boys’s aspect, the Eagles took second place within the 2×500 freestyle relay.
• Teaming up for the ladies’s breaststroke relay win in 3:20.58 had been sophomore Marin Priddy, junior Jordan Carpentieri, and sophomore Grace Gilbert.
• Junior Kate Williams and sophomore Demetra Bicos had been the successful pair within the 2×500 freestyle relay with a time of 10:25.08.
• The ladies capped the day with a third-place end within the 200 freestyle relay, as Priddy, freshman Lucy Penna, sophomore Piper Crosby, and Gilbert went 1:37.15.
• The males’s second-place occasion end got here from sophomore Luke Martens and freshman Ryan Sommerstad who went 9:43.47 within the 2×500 freestyle relay.
• The males’s 200 freestyle relay workforce of sophomore Charlie St. Louis, junior Connor Florence, freshman Cade Kidani, and freshman Gavin Shifflett positioned fifth in 1:27.02 to shut out the day.
• On their solution to a workforce win general on the boys’s aspect, George Mason set a brand new pool document within the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:23.56.

Next Up

• On Friday, Oct. 3, the Eagles will host UMBC in a twin meet at 6 p.m. The meet will likely be streamed reside on YouTube.

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(first and second-place are switched on occasion #1)