TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The Florida State swimming and diving crew concluded the season-opening FSU Invite in profitable vogue with first-place crew finishes on Saturday morning on the Morcom Aquatics Center.
The Seminoles recorded 32 occasion victories in 44 complete occasions on the two-day meet. The girls scored 360 factors to defeat Rice (255) and West Virginia (205.5), whereas the boys totaled 365 factors to complete forward of Purdue (239), West Virginia (186.5) and Tampa (167.5).
“This was a really great day,” FSU head coach
Neal Studd mentioned. “We came out and got the job done and had some really fast swims across the board. I feel like we’re ahead of where we need to be, which is really exciting. The last two years this meet has been canceled because of hurricanes, so it’s really great to get it in, and I think everybody had a great time and competed well.”
FSU gained 16 of twenty-two occasions once more on Saturday morning, with a pair of 1-2-3 finishes and one other two 1-2 showings. Sophomore Michel Arkhangelsky gained 4 complete occasions, two particular person and two relays, whereas fellow second-year
Maryn McDade added two particular person victories together with a relay win.
After notching 16 wins on Friday night time, Florida State carried that momentum into the second day by sweeping the primary occasion, the 100 medley relay. The girls’s crew behind sophomore
Alice Velden, freshman
Martina Fanunza, McDade and senior
Kiara Caamano completed with a time of 45.52, adopted by the boys’s crew of seniors
Max Wilson and
Marcos Egri-Martin, Arkhangelsky and senior
Sam Bork in 37.74.
McDade notched her first particular person victory within the 50 butterfly in 23.98 earlier than Arkhangelsky posted his first particular person win in 20.77. Bork (20.85) was second because the Seminoles went 1-2 within the occasion. Both McDade and Arkangelsky returned later within the day to comb the 100 freestyle, in 50.03 and 42.75, respectively.
After profitable two particular person occasions on Friday night time in her collegiate debut, Fanunza collected her third particular person victory of the weekend within the 100 breaststroke in 1:02.99 to steer a 1-2-3 FSU end alongside fellow freshmen
Avery Vassil (1:04.07) and
Caroline Agee (1:04.18).
Senior
Sophie Freeman recorded her first particular person win of the season within the 200 butterfly in 2:00.62, whereas sophomore
Logan Robinson secured his third win of the weekend within the 200 butterfly to finish one other Seminole sweep in 1:43.83.
On the springboard, sophomore
Evelyn Hall earned the win on 1-meter with 252.00 factors, whereas the boys had a 1-2-3 end on 3-meter. Sophomore
Hayden Schroeder led the way in which with 288.75 factors, adopted by junior Jack Bessire (282.95) and freshman
Jack Sparks (277.25).
Velden (24.52) and senior
Sarah Evans (25.42) went 1-2 within the girls’s 50 backstroke and Wilson (22.05) gained the boys’s race. Agee added a victory within the 200 IM (2:02.79) for her first collegiate victory.
The Seminoles closed the meet with sweeps within the 200 freestyle relay. The girls’s crew of McDade, Evans, Caamano, and junior
Maysa Ratiu took first in 1:31.68, and the boys joined them in victory in 1:17.63 with Bork, junior
Gustav Olsson, Wilson, and Arkhangelsky.
FSU will head to Atlanta, Georgia subsequent to compete within the Georgia Tech’s Dual Meet Tournament on October 17-18.
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