Women’s Swimming Defeats Old Dominion, Headlines Robust Overall Weekend for GWU

NORFOLK, VA – The Gardner-Webb girls’s swimming scored an general win in opposition to Old Dominion throughout Friday and Saturday within the pool, headlining a powerful particular person and general weekend within the pool for the Runnin’ Bulldogs

Overall Team Scores

Men: Old Dominion 197, Gardner-Webb 141

Women: Gardner-Webb 170, Old Dominion 165

The first robust particular person run for the GWU girls got here by way of freshman Jenna Valentine within the girls’s 200 yard free. Valentine took the highest spot with a blistering time of 1:52.30 with a 26.21 second first break up. Valentine later went on to additionally win the ladies’s 200 yard fly, doing so in 2:03, and was scored in second within the girls’s 100 yard free in 52.64 seconds, in addition to the ladies’s 100 yard fly in 56.51 seconds

On the lads’s aspect, sophomore Santiago Alcantara and junior Luke Weber went one-two for Gardner-Webb within the males’s 1650 yard free. Alcantara received the occasion in 15:53, with teammate Weber in second with a time of 16:07. Alcantara additionally picked up a win within the males’s 200 yard fly afterward, simply forward of GWU teammate Alex Cook, with the 2 recording occasions of 1:50 and 1:52 again to again

En path to a group general win, junior Slawka Ndubuisi nabbed a win for the Gardner-Webb girls within the girls’s 100 yard backstroke. Ndubuisi was wonderful, simply inching out a win by .04 seconds with a time of 56.68 with a 27.48 first lap break up. She’d later go on to win the ladies’s 100 yard free in 52.05 seconds and the ladies’s 50 yard backstroke in 26,77 seconds

GWU took first and third within the girls’s 50 yard fly. Sophomore Jillian Hawkins captured the win in 25.74 seconds, whereas teammate senior Hannah Routh was third in 26.05 seconds. Hawkins and Routh additionally every took half with Valentine within the girls’s 100 yard fly, with the trio ending 1-2-3, Valentine as beforehand talked about in 56.51 seconds, Routh second in 56.86 seconds, and Hawkins third in 57.29 seconds

Junior Carter Redelman led one other one-two for Gardner-Webb, this time with teammate sophomore Augustin Orechia within the males’s 100 yard backstroke. Redelman received the occasion in 50.01 seconds, whereas Orechia was simply behind in second in 50.58 seconds

Sophomore Dakota Townley picked up the place she left off final weekend for the Runnin’ Bulldogs, scoring one other win within the girls’s 50 yard breaststroke. Townley touched the wall in 29.76 seconds, earlier than later profitable the ladies’s 200 yard breaststroke in 2:20 with a lightning quick 31.10 first break up. To add to the success of the Gardner-Webb girls, Townley was als second within the girls’s 100 yard breaststroke in 1:04.01

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Next up for the Runnin’ Bulldogs is the Fall Frenzy, hosted by Queens University of Charlotte from November twenty first by the twenty third