Pitt Closes Weekend at World Aquatics Swimming World Cup

WESTMONT, IL. — Several members of the Pitt swimming group returned from a profitable weekend on the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Illinois, competing in opposition to a few of the high swimmers on the earth.

The Panthers posted 5 top-12 finishes, with three people setting new private bests.

Julian Koch completed the weekend with a ninth-place end within the males’s 100-meter butterfly, clocking a personal-best time of 51.14 seconds. He additionally positioned Eleventh within the 100-meter freestyle with one other private better of 47.10, competing alongside Olympic and world champions Jack Alexy and Noe Ponti.

Sydney Gring turned in a Thirteenth-place end within the girls’s 100-meter butterfly (58.85) and positioned 14th within the 50-meter butterfly with a time of 26.80.

In the ladies’s 50-meter backstroke, Claire Jansen led the Panthers with an Eleventh-place end (26.88), adopted by Gring in seventeenth. The pair competed in opposition to world report holders and Olympic champions Regan Smith and Kaylee McKeown.

Jansen added one other top-12 consequence with an Twelfth-place end within the 200-meter backstroke (2:06.23) and later positioned fifteenth within the 100-meter backstroke (58.77).

Alan Vergine rounded out Pitt’s high performances with a time of 1:54.99 within the 200-meter butterfly, incomes ninth place and a brand new private finest. James Allison additionally ended the weekend with new private bests in his respective occasions.

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The Panthers return residence to Trees Pool Oct. 24–25 to host Penn State. Diving occasions will happen on Friday, adopted by swimming on Saturday.