Swimming & Diving Kicks Off Season With Break up At UW-Whitewater

Whitewater, Wis. – The await Illinois Tech swimming and diving to begin the season lastly got here to an finish on Saturday, when the Scarlet Hawks traveled to Whitewater, Wisconsin to tackle UW-Whitewater in twin meet motion. When the final swimmer got here out of the water, the Hawks got here away with a cut up on the afternoon, with the lads’s crew profitable 143-128, whereas the ladies’s crew fell 177-72.

The Scarlet Hawks had a number of prime performances throughout the board within the meet, with the lads’s crew claiming seven first-place finishes, whereas the ladies’s crew captured 4 prime finishes.

Head Coach Kate Chronic was happy with the outcomes for the crew’s first meet of the season.

“Our athletes did an outstanding job racing,” mentioned Chronic. “We had many quick swims throughout the board, each on the lads’s and ladies’s groups. 

For the primary meet of the season, this was a superb alternative for us to see the place we’re proper now, what labored and did not work, and to start to make changes as we head into our huge Quad meet at UChicago in two weeks. I’m very excited to see what we will do because the season progresses.”

Overall, the lads’s crew got here away with seven first-place finishes, seven second-place finishes, and 5 third-place finishes. On the ladies’s aspect, the crew had 4 first-place finishes, three second-place finishes and 5 third-place finishes.

First-year swimmer Zeng Wye Liew of the lads’s crew was the crew’s prime performer on the day, taking first-place in each the 100-yard butterfly and the 200-yard IM. First-year Elishka Janout of the ladies’s crew additionally received her first collegiate occasion within the 100-yard freestyle, and took third place within the 50-yard freestyle.

Top Performers

Men’s Team

• Zeng Wye Liew: 1st place – 200-yard IM (2:00.98); 1st place – 100-yard butterfly (52.29)
• Don Rose: 1st place – 200-yard freestyle (1:49.66); 2nd place – 100-yard freestyle (48.58)
• Aidan Chance: 1st place – 100-yard backstroke (54.39)
• Eli Riegler: 1st place – 500-yard freestyle (5:03.21); 2nd place – 200-yard freestyle (1:50.63)
• Giorgio Turchetti: 1st place – 100-yard breaststroke (1:00.62); 2nd place – 50-yard freestyle (22.26)
• Tristan Minarik: 2nd place – 1000-yard freestyle (10:45.93)
• Nicholas Raden: 2nd place – 200-yard IM (2:06.72); 2nd place – 100-yard backstroke (57.90)
• Hugo Besin: third place – 100-yard breaststroke (1:05.14)
• Colin Schulz: 2nd place 1-meter diving (171.90); 2nd place – 3-meter diving (168.38)
• 1st place – 400-yard Medley Relay – Chance, Liew, Rose, Turchetti (3:35.22)
• 2nd place – 200-yard Freestyle Relay – Chance, Ean Arbogast, Minarik, Rieger (1:31.67)

Women’s Team

• Claire van Biljon – 1st place – 50-yard freestyle (25.12); 2nd place – 100-yard butterfly (1:01.85)
• Kristen Hampton – 1st place – 200-yard IM (2:22.33); 2nd place – 500-yard freestyle (5:42.23)
• Elishka Janout – 1st place – 100-yard freestyle (56.75); third place – 50-yard freestyle (26.01)
• Kayla Matsumoto – 1st place – 100-yard backstroke (1:04.44)
• Taryn Oser – 2nd place – 100-yard breaststroke (1:13.57); third place – 200-yard IM (2:27.72)
• Grace Kolody – third place – 200-yard freestyle (2:12.15); third place – 500-yard freestyle (5:56.83)
• Anna Malik – third place – 1000-yard freestyle (12:29.06)
• third place – 200-yard Freestyle Relay – Hampton, Kolody, Nethmi Bopearatchy, Bianca Perez (1:53.01)

Up Next
The Scarlet Hawks can be idle this week, and can subsequent hit the water in competitors on Saturday, 10/25 after they compete within the UChicago double-dual with UChicago and Wheaton College at 1:00 p.m.