Clarion Swimming & Diving: Cortopassi, Jurski Win PSAC Weekly Awards

LOCK HAVEN, Pa. (EYT) — The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference introduced their weekly swimming award winners on Tuesday. Clarion athletes have been represented on each the lads’s and ladies’s sides as Dominic Cortopassi was named the PSAC Men’s Swimming Athlete of the Week and Joslyn Jurski shared PSAC Women’s Swimming Athlete of the Week honors with East Stroudsburg’s Anique Hazebroek.

Both the Clarion males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving groups earned twin meet victories over IUP on Saturday.

Cortopassi contributed to a relay win and likewise received two particular person occasions within the Golden Eagles’ twin meet victory over IUP on Saturday as Clarion beat the Crimson Hawks 116-108 at Pidgeon Natatorium. It was the Golden Eagles who struck first within the meet, with the 200 Medley Relay staff of Mason Peck, Cortopassi, Gavin Guckavan and Mason Irwin beating the Crimson Hawks by one hundredth of a second. Cortopassi adopted with a win within the 200 IM with a time of 1:56.61. He additionally received the 100 Breast, beating IUP’s Patrik Kudla by 0.15 with a time of 58.44.

On the ladies’s facet, Joslyn Jurski factored into all three wins for Clarion swimmers in opposition to IUP, touching the wall first in each the 200 Free and the five hundred Free and swimming the third leg within the 200 Free Relay. In the 200 Free, the Golden Eagles had the highest three finishers, representing an enormous chunk of factors within the last tally. Jurski was the primary to finish the race, ending in a time of 1:56.91. She struck for her second win of the day within the 500 Free, profitable the lengthy distance occasion with a time of 5:13.19, after which contributed to the staff win within the 200 Free Relay, edging out the Crimson Hawks with a time of 1:38.61 to take the race by greater than a second. The Golden Eagles received the meet 120-103.