Women Earn Thrilling Win Over UMBC in Swim & Dive’s First Dual Meet

WASHINGTON – With an exciting win within the ultimate relay of the night time, the ladies’s crew from American University swimming & diving pulled out its first win over UMBC within the three conferences between the colleges since 2023. The ultimate rating had the ladies taking it 155-147, with each sophomore Marin Priddy and senior Isabel McGovern profitable all 4 of their occasions. Priddy set a pool file for the Eagles along with her win within the 100 breaststroke.

Overall, the ladies’s crew captured wins in 9 of 16 occasions, whereas the boys’s crew earned two wins for AU.

Notable Results

• The girls’s 200 medley relay began the night time off with a win, as sophomore Piper Crosby, Priddy, McGovern, and sophomore Grace Gilbert teamed up for a win in 1:44.97, lower than two-tenths of a second off the pool file and rating twelfth all-time at AU.
• That identical foursome introduced it residence on the finish of the night time, profitable the 200 freestyle relay in 1:35.97 which additionally ties for twelfth all-time. The group knew previous to the relay that the profitable relay crew would win the meet.
• Priddy went 1:04.51 within the 100 breaststroke to set the pool file, along with her time additionally rating as a PR and sixth all-time at American. She bought her fourth win and second particular person victory within the 100 free with a time of 53.33.
• McGovern’s two particular person victories got here within the girls’s 200 free (1:53.87) and the 100 fly (57.25).
• Crosby additionally earned a person win along with her time of 57.35 within the girls’s 100 backstroke.
• In addition to her two relay wins, Gilbert positioned second in each the 50 free and 100 free.
• The Eagles swept the 1,000 free on the ladies’s facet, as sophomore Demetra Bicos (10:34.70), junior Kate Williams (10:40.78) and freshman Abby Rothrock (10:43.79) went 1-2-3 in that occasion.
• For the boys, sophomore Luke Martens received by six and a half seconds within the 1,000 free, going 9:47.52. He later positioned second within the 500 free.
• Sophomore Claire Mosher received the ladies’s 200 fly in 2:11.00 to spherical out the 9 victories for her crew.
• The males’s crew had a 1-2-3 sweep within the 200 fly with sophomore Cole Coffman in first (1:55.02), junior Ryan Tiffany in second (1:58.24) and senior Madan Morris in third (2:01.76).
• The Eagles’ finest end within the diving occasions got here from freshman Alex Way who positioned second on the 1-meter with a rating of 221.50, rating fifteenth all-time at AU. Way’s rating of 222.60 on the 3-meter positioned him third, and ranks thirteenth all-time.

Full Results

Up Next

• The Eagles will likely be on the street subsequent Saturday, Oct. 11 for a tri-meet at Loyola Maryland, additionally competing in opposition to Lehigh.

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