Swimming & Diving High Boston University In Twin Meet

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts swimming and diving staff topped Boston University in a twin meet on the Joseph R. Rogers Jr., Pool on Saturday.

Both the Minutewomen and Minutemen mixed for 20 gold medals on the day.

Additionally, three Massachusetts divers had six-dive totals rank inside the top-10 in program historical past.

Women’s Swimming & Diving

The Minutewomen totaled 26 top-three finishes on the day to go alongside, whereas amassing 9 gold medals.

Freshman Flora Klimesch started the person occasions with a first-place end within the 1,000 freestyle with a personal-best time of 10:25.50.

In the 200 freestyle, junior Beren Cakiroglu swam a season-best 1:53.41 to safe the gold, whereas fellow classmate Diya Ackerman-Vallala grabbed the silver with a season-best time of 1:56.33. Sophomore Maria Grishaeva was second within the 100 backstroke with a time of 57.85.

The 100 breaststroke noticed freshman Kate Baranova take first-pace with a season-best time of 1:05.49, as junior Lindsay Burbage completed shut behind in second with a time of 1:05.73. Sophomore Karinne Everly (2:06.53) and Hannah Schoenauer (2:06.92) accomplished the 200 butterfly with season-best instances to position second and third, respectively.

Sophomore Courtney Tedesco swam into second within the 50 freestyle with a season-best time of 23.84. Cakiroglu collected her second gold medal of the day with a season-best time of 52.00 within the 100 freestyle, whereas Grishaeva positioned third within the 200 backstroke with a season-best time of two:05.72.

Burbage additionally garnered her second medal of the day, putting first within the 200 breaststroke with a time of two:23.81, as Ackerman-Vallala had a season-best time of two:27.74 within the occasion to take third.

Klimesch secured her second gold medal of the afternoon after swimming a personal-best time of 5:06.91 within the 500 freestyle. Schoenauer completed third within the occasion with a time of 5:11.84, marking a season-best.

Everly was first within the 100 butterfly with a season-best time of 56.61, adopted by Tedesco in second with a personal-best time of 57.15. Grishaeva earned second within the 200 particular person medley with a season-best time of two:09.00.

In the relays, the 200 medley relay staff of Grishaeva, Burbage, Everly and Tedesco grabbed the gold with a mixed time of 1:44.68. The 400 freestyle relay staff of Ackerman-Vallala, Tedesco, Everly and Cakiroglu swam a time of three:31.96 to take second, whereas the staff consisting of Baranova, junior Olga Stoura, Klimesch and Schoenauer completed third with a time of three:39.94.

Men’s Swimming & Diving

The Minutemen tallied 23 top-three finishes, including 11 gold medals on the day.

Junior Jude Boukarroum and freshman Miles Smyczek kicked off the person occasions with a first- and second-place end, respectively, within the 1,000 freestyle. Boukarroum had a season-best time of 9:45.42, whereas Smyczek had a season-best time of 9:50.79.

Senior Sammy Quigg grabbed the gold medal within the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:40.92. Sophomore Zach Szabo took first within the 100 backstroke with a season-best time of 49.82, whereas freshman Liam Hickey was third with a time of 51.22.

Freshmen Hudson Bawduniak (56.45) and Eli Panachyda (57.28) completed first and second, respectively, with season-best instances. Junior Aydin Erkan was third within the 200 butterfly with a time of 29.44 and Quigg took first within the 50 freestyle with a time of 20.66.

Freshman Macek Vandermolen swam a time of 46.37 within the 100 freestyle to gather the gold, whereas Hickey grabbed the silver within the 200 backstroke with a season-best time of 1:50.75. Panachyda had a season-best time of two:06.14 within the 200 breaststroke to complete first, as freshman Chase Dai adopted in third with a season-best time of two:08.58.

The 500 freestyle noticed Boukarroum swim into second with season-best mark of 4:43.63. Bawduniak completed the 100 butterfly with a season-best time of fifty.86 to position second, and sophomore Chase Keeler secured the gold within the 200 particular person medley with a season-best time of 1:54.17.

During the relay occasions, the staff of Szabo, Bawduniak, Hickey and Quigg swam a mixed time of 1:32.18 to position second within the 200 medley relay. The 400 freestyle relay staff consisting of Quigg, Vandermolen, junior Aidan Shepston and junior Alonso Montoru swam into first with a mixed time of three:03.98. The staff of Hickey, freshman Sota Kawahata, Szabo and sophomore Daniel Strumidlo positioned third with a time of three:08.18.

On The Boards
In the three-meter dive, senior Shreeya Sinha claimed the gold with a personal-best rating, and fourth-best complete in program historical past, of 318.60. Sophomore Danielle Guerin positioned third within the occasion with a six-dive complete of 276.83.

The one-meter dive for the Minutewomen noticed sophomore Khrystyna Yaremyn (266.85) and Guerin (263.55) take second and third, respectively.

For the Minutemen, sophomore Alex Kreidler secured first within the one-meter with a personal-best rating of 353.63, whereas freshman Carson Harrington positioned second with a personal-best complete of 316.20. Kreidler’s mark now ranks third all-time, whereas Harrington’s rating ranks tenth.

In the three-meter, Harrington claimed the gold with a personal-best, and second all-time mark of 378.15. Harrington’s rating additionally broke a earlier freshman document of 375.00 held by Jason Cook in 2009.
Kreidler took second within the occasion with a six-dive complete of 369.53, which marked a personal-best and the fourth-best rating in program historical past.

Up Next
Both the boys’s and girls’s swim staff return to motion on Friday, November 21, by means of Sunday, November 23, because the staff’s compete within the Terrier Invitational, hosted by Boston University, in Boston, Massachusetts.