Runnin’ Bulldogs Swimming Posts Sequence of Robust Individual Runs at UNC Wilmington

WILMINGTON, N.C. – The Gardner-Webb swimming staff fell in each the lads’s and girls’s total staff scores as weekend motion wrapped up at UNC Wilimgton on Saturday night, however comes dwelling with a collection of stable particular person runs

GWU opened the day with a second place run within the ladies’s 200-yard medley relay. Once once more, the group of junior Slawka Ndubuisi, sophomore Dakota Townley, senior Hannah Routh, and this time with freshman Jenna Valentine landed on the rostrum, clocking in with a time of 1:45.78

The Runnin’ Bulldogs featured closely within the ladies’s 100-yard butterfly, the place Routh, Valentine, sophomore Jillian Hawkins and sophomore Lauren Barrick all completed back-to-back-to-back. Valentine was second in 56.72 seconds, Routh third in 57.29 seconds, Hawkins fourth in 57.37 seconds, and Barrick fifth within the occasion after clocking a time of 1:03.31

Nudubuisi later competed solo within the ladies’s 100-yard freestyle, the place the junior notched a time of 52.32 seconds to take second place. Gardner-Webb teammate senior Sara-Michael Jann was fourth within the occasion, with a time of 54.40 seconds.

Gardner-Webb was additionally second within the males’s 200-yard medley relay. The staff of junior Carter Redelman, senior Justin Bender, sophomore Porter Lane and junior Jacob Jensen touched the wall in 1:30.88, a full one-second forward of the third place finishers from UNC Wilmington

Individually, Townley and Bender each scored runner-up finishes later within the day, In the ladies’s 100-yard breaststroke, Townley was only a half second off the highest spot, ending in second place with a time of 1:03.54. She would additional take second within the ladies’s 200-yard breaststroke in 2:20.52. Over within the males’s 100-yard breaststroke in the meantime, Bender recorded a time of 56.75 seconds to take second.

Valentine was additionally among the many strongest particular person finishers of the day for the Runnin’ Bulldogs, scoring second within the ladies’s 200-yard butterfly. The Boone, N.C. native competing in her dwelling state put down a time of two:05.91, additionally simply forward of GWU teammate Hawkins who was fourth with a time of two:11.20

Fresh off a faculty file run on Friday night time, freshman Victor Curry put down a time of 4:31.63, together with a 26.38 second closing break up, as he took second place within the males’s 500-yard freestyle race.

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