Swimming & Diving Takes Street Journey To Fordham Saturday

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Fairfield University swimming and diving packages will head south for a twin meet with Fordham University on Saturday, November. 1. The meet represents the staff’s first street journey since sweeping Providence College on October 18.

The Stags have loved a lot success for the reason that season began on the primary weekend of October. After internet hosting and successful the Fairfield Invitational within the season opener, Fairfield has picked up victories in a lot of the early-season twin meets.

The males’s staff has posted wins in all three of its twin meets, outscoring Bryant University, Providence, and Marist University during the last three Saturdays. The girls’s staff gained two of its three matchups with these colleges together with final weekend’s win over Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC foe) Marist.

Last week, Fairfield acquired sturdy performances from a number of completely different fronts with three student-athletes incomes MAAC weekly honors. Lillian Tonole captured the MAAC Diver of the Month after sweeping the 1- and 3-meter occasions. Katie Torrey touched the wall first within the 100 and 200 again to garner MAAC Rookie of the Week. And, Andrew Nathe gained one other MAAC Rookie of the Week following his efficiency within the 50 and 100 free.

Fairfield and Fordham will renew their collection historical past this weekend after not competing in opposition to each other for the reason that 2019-20 season. The Rams got here away with a sweep that afternoon, scoring a 175-67 determination within the girls’s meet and a 162-75 determination within the males’s assembly.

Fordham will swim in opposition to a MAAC opponent for the second straight week, coming off a sweep of Manhattan University on October 17. The males’s staff brings a 1-2 mark whereas the ladies’s program owns a 3-1 file heading into this weekend’s motion.

Karina Kanary (100 fly, 100 again) and Saskia Aikman (200 free, 50 fly) comprised the twin winners for the ladies’s staff. On the lads’s facet, Quinn McPhail (200 free, 100 breast), Max Maycher (50 free, 200 IM), and Marco Petit (1-meter, 3-meter diving) secured twin victories for the Rams.

Following this weekend’s motion, the Stags can have a short layoff in competitors. Fairfield will return to the pool when it travels to the Terrier Invitational hosted by Boston University. The Stags will shut out the primary semester within the three-day occasion which takes place from November 21-23.