Swimming turns in spectacular efficiency in first house meet of the season

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Bellarmine University swim groups turned in a profitable first house meet of the 2025-26 season, claiming wins over the USI males’s and girls’s group whereas recording 35 podium finishes, highlighted by 14 gold medals.

Before the meet, the Knights honored former head coach and Bellarmine Athletics Hall of Fame member John Brucato, who handed away over the summer time after battling ALS.

The girls turned in a strong 11 podium finishes on the day, led by sophomore Micaela Godfrey’s two golds. Godfrey gained the 400 IM with a time of 4:32.46 and the 200 again with a time of two:06.32. Fellow sophomore Ava Jones registered a win within the 100 free (54.05) and positioned second within the 50 free (24.96), behind teammate Erin Dall’Agnol who gained the occasion with a time of 24.80. The senior additionally recorded a third-place end within the 200 breaststroke with a time of two:24.28.

Freshman Kaja Vaadal tallied two silver medals on the day, coming in second within the 500 and 1000 freestyle races, handing over occasions of 5:17.99 and 10:49.63 respectively. Junior Lily Wolfe and sophomore Kate Ryan rounded out the trouble with a bronze medal every. Wolfe took third within the 1000 free (10:51.94) whereas Ryan positioned third within the 200 free (1:58.82).

The girls additionally gained each relays within the occasion with Godfrey, Dall’Agnol, Annie Leibold and Lily Epley ending first within the 200 medley (1:48.18) and Jones, Ryan, Lizzy Sosa and Epley wining the 200 free (1:38.42).

On the lads’s aspect, 13 Knights mixed for 18 podium finishes, together with three podium sweeps, highlighted by eight first place finishes. Freshman Ahmet Efe Inceoglu continued to impress, successful two extra occasions in simply his second collegiate meet, taking gold within the 50 and 100 freestyle with occasions of 21.11 and 45.59, respectively.

Six different males tallied one win gold every in senior Sam Jones (1000 free, 9:50.30), freshman Yael Bojalil (200 free, 1:43.04), junior Evan Dickson (500 free, 4:46.66), senior Cason Henderson (400 IM, 4:12.18), freshman Carter Souliere (200 again, 1:53.66) and freshman João Kirchgässner (200 breaststroke, 2:07.63).

In addition to their first-place finishes, Bojalil took second within the 500 free (4:47.61), Dickson took second within the 200 free (1:43.27), Henderson took second within the 200 fly (1:56.76) and Souliere took second within the 200 breaststroke (2:09.01). Junior Colin Jackson registered two podium finishes, inserting second within the 200 again with a time of 1:53.77 and third within the 50 free with a time of 21.64. Senior Liam Connelly recorded the ultimate second-place end within the 1000 free with a time of 10:18.30.

To spherical out the lads’s high finishers, junior Britton Pianki (200 free, 1:46.22), freshman Zach May (100 free, 48.40), sophomore Logan LaCombe (200 again, 1:57.65) and junior Evan Jones (500 again, 4:53.66) all took third place of their respective occasions.

In the 200 medley males’s relay, Jackson, Kirchgässner, Caleb Howard and Inceoglu positioned second (1:33.83) whereas LaCombe, May, Cooper Burke and David Diercks took third (1:37.68). In the 200 free relay, Reece Pennington, Diercks, Pianki and Howard positioned second (1:27.37) with Burke, Bojalil, Dickson and Anthony Nasrallah positioned third (1:28.82).

Up subsequent, Bellarmine will journey to Muncie, IN for a twin at Ball State on November 8.

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