Mountaineers Headvert to Newark to Face Delaware

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups face the Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hens on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 11 a.m. at Rawstrom Natatorium in Newark, Delaware.
 
This is the primary motion for the boys’s swimming and diving workforce for the reason that West Virginia State Games on Oct. 4. The girls’s swimming and diving workforce (1-0) defeated Marshall its final day out in Huntington, W.Va., on Oct. 10.
 
Against the Thundering Herd, the Mountaineers had spectacular performances throughout the board. Junior Maddie Smutny set a pool report for the Frederick A. Fitch Natatorium and posted a top-10 program time for the 500-yard freestyle, touching the wall at 4:50.29.
 
Senior Olivia Busch positioned second within the 1000-yard freestyle as she additionally posted a top-10 program time, touching the wall at 10:06.43.
 
In the diving properly, senior Abigail Sullivan earned her first win of the season on 1-meter with a ultimate rating of 262.95 factors.
 
At the WV State Games, the boys’s workforce dominated because it gained all however one occasion. Throughout the season, West Virginia has had robust performances from younger expertise. Freshman Jake Salcedo has posted two top-three finishes this yr, with a first-place end within the 1000-yard freestyle on the WV State Games.
 
He additionally positioned second within the 500-yard freestyle on the Florida State University Invitational to earn Big 12 weekly honors.
 
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