Girls’s Swimming Takes Third at Season Opening WVU Games

Wheeling, W. Va. – The 2025-2026 season marks a brand new period of Wheeling Women’s Swimming, and all of it started on the WVU Games on Saturday on the Mylan Park Aquatic Center. It was a giant day for the Wheeling University Women’s Swimming crew as they took third within the area of eight groups, placing up 421.5 factors within the effort. The Cardinals have been simply 29 factors off of Fairmont State for the lead amongst Mountain East Conference (MEC) rivals as they rounded out a powerful begin to the season. 

Leading the best way for the Cardinals was Androniki Chrysafi, who scored 489.1 factors to complete twenty first total on the occasion. While she didn’t choose up a medal on the day, she was a giant participant within the relay occasions, serving to the Cardinals to 2 high 5 finishes within the relay area. She can be a part of the Cardinal’s 400-Yard Freestyle Relay crew, the place she joined teammates Guilia Liberti, Gabby Baiano, and Lydie Sprecher. The foursome completed fifth total with a time of 4:16.95, wiht Chrysafi serving because the leadoff swimmer with a cut up of 57.00.Her high particular person end would come within the 200-Yard Backstroke, the place she completed seventh total with a time of two:22.94. She added a ninth place end within the 100-Yard Freestyle, swimming a time of 57.14 to spherical out her day within the pool. 

A pair of Cardinal veterans completed simply off the tempo of Chrysafi, with Gabby Baiano and Lacie Langmyer every cracking the highest 30 of the occasion. She would proceed her success within the lengthy distance occasions from final season, together with her high efficiency coming within the 1000-Yard Freestyle. She would take fifth total, swimming a time of 11:31.62, and would end with a high 10 end within the 500-Yard Freestyle, taking seventh total with a time of 5:35.18. Langmyer would additionally excel within the lengthy distance occasions, becoming a member of Baiano in each the 1000 and 500 Yard Freestyle. Her high efficiency additionally got here within the 1000, the place she took sixth with a time of 11:35.58, whereas including a tenth place end within the 500 (5:39.02). Both look to proceed to excel in lengthy distance swims as they function the veterans for this younger crew. 

Rounding out the highest 30 swimmers for the Cardinals was Giulia Liberti, who completed thirtieth total with 431.8 factors. Liberti would tackle the brief distance occasions for the Cardinals, together with her high end coming within the 200-Yard Breaststroke. She would end seventh total with a time of two:39.64 and added an eighth place end within the 100-Yard Breaststroke with a time of 1:11.57. Sitting simply exterior the highest 30 for the Cardinals have been Olivia Moyer and Lydie Sprecher, who completed thirty first and thirty second respectively. Moyer would choose up her high end of her profession within the 200-Yard Butterfly, the place she completed fourth with a time of two:56.0 for her lone high 5 end of the day. Sprecher rounded out the day swimming within the 100-Yard Butterfly, the place she completed eighth with a time of 1:04.92. 

Before the 400-Yard Medley Relay made waves at first of the day, it was the 200-Yard Medley Relay that acquired issues began robust. The crew of Chrysafi, Liberti, Sprecher, and Grace Moorley would end 4th total, swimming a time of 1:53.73. It can be the highest relay placement on the day for the Cardinals, and issues would spherical out with the 200-Yard Freestyle Relay. This time, it was Chrysafi, Sprecher, Moorley, and Langmyer who took the pool, ending seventh total with a time of 1:45.83.  

The Wheeling University Women’s Swimming crew returns to motion on Saturday, October eleventh, once they hit the street to face Frostburg State and West Virginia Wesleyan with first swims starting at 1 PM.