FORT WORTH – In the primary meet of the 2025-26 season, the TCU swimming and diving workforce defeated Incarnate Word on Saturday afternoon on the TCU Recreational Center.
The males’s workforce secured a 246.5-65.5 victory, whereas the ladies received 237-70. TCU received all however two occasions out of 34 whole, and one new top-10 time was recorded in the course of the meet.
THE RUNDOWN To begin out the day, each the boys’s and ladies’s 600 medley relay squads stuffed up the highest three spots on the rostrum. TCU carried the momentum into the 1000 free, the place
Avery Dillon earned the seventh-fastest time in program historical past within the occasion with a time of 10:06.57. On the boys’s aspect, freshman
Deacon Gutshall posted a 9:23.21 to take dwelling first as nicely.
Sydney Inman (1:51.75) earned a victory within the 200 free, whereas
Aaron Wilmes (1:41.76) adopted swimsuit as nicely on the boys’s aspect. Freshman
Molly Cullen secured the primary win of her profession within the 50 again, touching the wall in 26.27, whereas skilled veteran
Edgar Cicanci swam a 22.62 to come back in first as nicely.
Filip Suchanski completed proper behind Cicanci, incomes a 22.67 within the occasion.
Nina Vadovicova and
Colin Clough secured wins within the 50 breast, touching the wall in 28.79 and 25.40. Transfer
Aubrey Finn shined within the 100 fly, notching a time of 56.05 to seize first.
The ladies’s 100 free was stuffed with spectacular newcomer performances for TCU, with
Josephine Brant (52.44),
Hannah Wachendorfer (53.17) and
Molly Cullen (53.74) securing the highest three spots.
Peter Horton (44.41)
Viktor Hristov (44.66) and
Michael Valenzuela (47.35) adopted swimsuit on the boys’s aspect.
Another freshman on the ladies’s aspect had a formidable day, with
Nicole Christensen touching the wall in 58.97 to safe the triumph within the 100 IM. In comparable style as many of the occasions earlier, the boys’s aspect additionally grabbed a win, this time with
Luka Cavic throwing down a 52.11.
Horton earned his second win of the day in the course of the 50 free, notching a 20.66. Newcomer
Paige Taber had a 55.49 to win the 100 again, and Suchanski notched a 47.83 to get the victory as nicely.
Vadovicova (1:01.97) and
Nikola Koltin (56.17) received the 100 breast, whereas freshman
Taylor Steelman (4:56.19) and Wilmes (4:38.68) had been victorious within the 500 free.
The remaining two particular person occasions had been all TCU, with
Josephine Brant and
Aubrey Finn (25.42) tying for first within the 50 fly and
Lior Mizrahi touching the wall in 22.01 to clinch the boys’s aspect. Christensen was victorious within the 200 IM (2:05.08) as was
Felipe Goncalves (1:54.22).
To shut out the day, the Frogs secured the highest three spots in each renditions of the 800 free relay. The ladies’s prime ending squad posted a 7:37.70, whereas the profitable quartet on the boys’s aspect swam a 6:43.81.
In diving,
David Ekdahl continued his profitable methods on 1-meter and 3-meter, posting scored of 357.70 and 338.30 to win each occasions.
Oliver Cazaly additionally had a productive day, inserting inside the highest three on each 1-meter and 3-meter.
Emma Larcada Herrera (261.35), Estzer Kovacs (258.60) and
Leah Fletcher (243.70) earned the highest three spots on 1-meter, whereas Kovacs received 3-meter (264.60), Larcada Herrera got here in second (264.20) and
Jordyn Warner (255.45) completed third.
UP NEXT TCU will head to Houston to tackle Rice, Houston and Villanova in a ladies’s solely meet from Oct. 10-11.
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