Chrysafi Leads the Method as Wheeling Girls’s Swimming Earns Conference Win Over Salem

Wheeling, W. Va. – After taking a loss on the street on Saturday, the Wheeling University Women’s Swimming staff was again within the pool on Wednesday as they appeared for a bounce again effort. It can be a Mountain East Conference battle because the Cardinals took on Salem University, and got here out on high with a 134-57 win. 10 totally different Cardinals scored 400 or extra factors on the evening, with the Cardinals totaling 12 wins on the evening to safe their second convention victory of the season. 

Leading the way in which for the Cardinals was freshman Niki Chrysafi, who completed with three gold medals throughout her three swims on the evening. She would begin the day by serving because the leadoff of the Women’s 400-Yard Medley Relay, becoming a member of up with teammates Giulia Liberti, Olivia Moyer, and Grace Moorley. The foursome swam a time of 4:12.64 to start out the evening and it simply added gasoline to Chrysafi’s large day. Her first particular person occasion win would come within the 100-Yard Backstroke, the place Chrysafi swam a time of 1:02.56, beating out the remainder of the sector by slightly below three seconds. However, she saved her greatest efficiency for final, when she took on the 200-Yard Individual Medley. She would set a PR within the race, swimming a time of two:21.12 to spherical out the evening. It was a battle between Chrysafi and Lydie Sprecher, however Chrysafi was capable of triumph by slightly below two seconds. 

Two different Cardinal swimmers would decide up a number of wins on the day, with Grace Moorley and Giulia Liberti every including two wins on the day. Both would earn their first wins within the opening relay and each would go on so as to add a person win. For Liberti, that win would come within the 100-Yard Breaststroke, the place she swam a time of 1:09.84 to set a season greatest on the day. It can be the primary of two season-best efforts on the day, as she added a 3rd place end within the 100-Yard Freestyle, setting a season-best with a time of 59.65. Moorley can be the opposite Cardinal with a number of wins, incomes her particular person win within the long-distance occasions. Her win would are available in her remaining swim of the day, as she took on the 500-Yard Freestyle. She would additionally set a season-best within the occasion, swimming a time of 5:29.62, profitable the occasion by slightly below two seconds on the day. 

The particular person occasions would kick-off with the 1000-Yard Freestyle the place Lacie Langmyer would take the pool. She would decide up her first place end within the occasion, swimming a time of 11:36.77 to kick-off the day. She would additionally set a season-best, coming within the 100-Yard Backstroke, swimming a time of 1:05.55 to take second place within the area. Senior Gabby Baiano and sophomore Lydie Sprecher would every decide up wins within the quick distance occasion with Sprecher taking the win within the 100-Yard Freestyle (56.65) and Baiano profitable the 100-Yard Fly (5:31.41). The remaining particular person win of the evening would come from Sofia Garcia, who took on the 200-Yard Freestyle. She would set a season-best within the effort, placing collectively a time of two:10.21, as she rounded out a robust day for the Cardinals. 

The Wheeling University Women’s Swimming staff returns to motion on Thursday, November twentieth, once they compete on day one of many Malone Midseason Invitational.