Swimming and Diving Begins with Friday Sweep

DURHAM, N.C. – Duke swimming and diving started the 2025-26 marketing campaign with 26 mixed occasion victories and a clear sweep in opposition to Marymount, East Carolina and Boston College contained in the Taishoff Aquatic Center on Friday. 

SCORES

Duke males defeated Marymount – 218.00-43.00

Duke males defeated East Carolina – 219.00-0.00

Duke males defeated Boston College – 155.00-106.00

Duke girls defeated Marymount – 215.00-0.00

Duke girls defeated East Carolina – 202.00-59.00

Duke girls defeated Boston College – 207.00-54.00

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Duke swept the 200-yard medley relays to kick off the day.
• Senior Audrey Portello started her closing marketing campaign with a trio of victories, claiming the 200 free (1:51.44), 500 free (4:57.61) and 200 IM (2:02.48).
• Picking up proper the place she left off final season, junior Ali Pfaff swam the 100 backstroke in 53.18, etching her identify at ninth in this system document ebook. She additionally swam the 100 free (50.17) in addition to serving to the 200 medley relay (1:40.62) and 400 free relay (3:22.94) to occasion wins. 
• Three-time All-America Kaelyn Gridley picked up a win within the 100 breaststroke (1:01.80) and 200 breaststroke (2:15.12) and a 200 medley relay triumph.
• Senior Martina Peroni took the highest spot within the 200 butterfly with a time of two:01.84. 
• The girls earned the highest 4 positions within the 50 freestyle, led by freshman Heather White’s 23.20. White additionally captured the 100 butterfly (55.33) and was part of the first-place 400 free relay and 200 medley relay. 
• Sophomore Kate Meyers-Labenz gained the 200 backstroke in 1:59.94. 
• On the boys’s facet, senior Justin Wong led the way in which with 4 victories, taking the 200 butterfly (1:52.16), 100 butterfly (49.41), 400 free relay (3:02.50) and 200 medley relay (1:31.04).
• Freshman Charlie Kulp earned two wins in his Blue Devil debut, taking the 200 free (1:41.04) and 500 free (4:37.60).
• Fellow rookie Raphael Wang completed first within the 200 breaststroke in 2:02.80.
• Junior Milo Shue tallied a victory within the 50 free with a mark of 20.36. 
• Wrapping up the person males’s swimming winners was junior Andrew Li with a 1:51.79 within the 200 IM to take first.
• The diving squad had Charles Berman take first within the males’s one (310.20) and three-meter (340.00) occasions. 
• Sophomore Keira Lu captured the ladies’s three-meter with a 314.65 rating and end second within the one-meter dive (286.70).

UP NEXT

• The Blue Devils welcome Davidson to Taishoff Aquatic Center on Oct. 10, with diving set for 4 p.m., and swimming to comply with at 5 p.m.
  
   

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