Swimming And Diving Set To Compete In Ohio State Invitational – Penn State

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The Penn State Swimming and Diving groups are set to journey to Columbus to compete within the annual Ohio State Invitational at McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion. Competition is ready to happen over 4 days from Nov. 18-21 in opposition to 12 groups from numerous conferences.

The invitational shall be streamed right here on B1G+.

The Nittany Lions shall be competing in opposition to the next opponents: Ohio State, Cincinnati, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisville, Purdue, UCLA, Yale, Pitt (diving solely), Northwestern (diving solely), Miami (diving solely).

This is the group’s third street meet of the season, following showdowns in opposition to Pitt and Army at their house swimming pools. The males enter the competitors at 2-1 whereas the ladies are at present 1-2.

Both Penn State squads have seen large enhancements with head coach Hollie Bonewit-Cron on the helm. This is her second season main the Blue and White.

Men

The males’s group is coming off a convincing win at West Point, boasting a 169-130 rating. The effort was led by reigning Big Ten Swimmer of the Week Mariano Lazzerini, who earned the distinction for the second time this season. Lazzerini posted 4 occasion wins, together with two particular person victories within the 100 breast (51.52) and 200 breast (1:53.54), and was a contributor in two relay wins within the 200 medley relay (23.39 break up) and 400 free relay (43.39 break up).

Other swimmers coming off robust performances in opposition to Army are senior Eduardo Cisternas and junior Tylor Kim. Both captured two particular person victories in opposition to Army. Cisternas received the 1000 free, swimming a 9:08.48, and the five hundred free, posting a 4:20.94. Kim claimed wins within the 50 free, posting a 20.09, and the 100 free, swimming a 43.31.

Lazzerini, Cisternas and Kim have been constantly dominant of their particular person occasions and look to take that momentum into the invitational.

The 200 medley relay group of Matthew Bittner, Mariano Lazzerini, Cooper Morley and Tylor Kim has been performing strongly, profitable each in opposition to St. Bonaventure (1:25.69) and Army (1:24.37), in addition to constantly posting podium finishes.

Senior Hayden Elliott has been additionally a gentle podium-finisher, together with wins within the 3M dive in opposition to Yale (321.15) and sweeping wins within the 1M (320.85) and 3M (321.30) in opposition to St. Bonaventure. Freshman Alex Wodehouse is coming off his first profession win within the 1M dive in opposition to Army, posting a 299.70 rating.

Women

The girls’s group is coming off a aggressive loss in opposition to Army. Morgan Moore has had a profitable senior marketing campaign, posting podium finishes in all of her 1000 free swims, together with victories vs. Army (9:50.71), St Bonaventure (10:04.07) and  Pitt (9:51.67).

Senior Catherine Meisner has additionally been recurrently exhibiting up on the rostrum this season, highlighted by victories within the 100 free vs. Army (50.04) and St. Bonaventure (50.29). She has additionally been performing very strongly within the 200 free and the 200 IM. Sophomore Julia Barto has additionally been delivering spectacular occasions within the IM occasions, with wins within the 200 IM in opposition to Army (2:01.96) and the 400 IM in opposition to Yale (4:18.85).

Sophomore Grace Brammer has been delivering stellar performances, taking sweeping wins within the 1M (262.95) and 3M (314.63) diving occasions in opposition to St Bonaventure, in addition to sweeping the 1M (271.43) and 3M dive (271.43) in opposition to Yale. Kailey Koval has additionally been spectacular, just lately inserting first in each diving occasions in opposition to Army, profitable the 1M dive with a rating of 285.23 and the 3M dive with a rating of 314.55.  

Events this week are set to happen within the following order:

Tuesday, Nov. 18:

200 Medley Relay

Team Diving Event

800 Free Relay

Wednesday, Nov. 19:

100 Fly

400 IM

200 Free

100 Breast

200 Free Relay

1M Men’s Diving

3M Women’s Diving

Thursday, Nov. 20:

100 Back

200 Breast

500 Free

50 Free

400 Medley Relay

3M Men’s Diving

Platform Women’s Diving

Friday, Nov. 21:

200 IM

1650 Free

100 Free

200 Fly

200 Back

400 Free Relay

1M Women’s Diving

Platform Men’s Diving

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