Swimming & Diving Heads to Magnus Cup

VESTAL, N.Y. – After a profitable fall schedule of meets, the Binghamton swimming & diving groups head to Cleveland State for the Magnus Cup. It marks the Bearcats’ annual mid-season invitational and runs Thursday-Saturday. 

There are six males’s groups and 9 girls’s packages collaborating within the Magnus Cup. In addition to the Bearcats and host Vikings, John Carroll, Le Moyne, St. Bonaventure and Xavier have each males’s and ladies’s squads competing this weekend. In addition, Akron, Bowling Green and Northern Colorado are sending girls’s groups to the meet.

Each day, the preliminaries begin at 9 a.m. adopted by the finals at 6 p.m. The diving occasions will happen Thursday and Friday.

On the boys’s aspect, Binghamton has gone an ideal 5-0 in twin meets up to now this season. The Bearcat girls, in the meantime, are at the moment 4-2. 

Binghamton has already had a formidable season within the diving occasions. Senior Elizabeth Tirado, junior Dylan Norby and sophomore Jacob Koclanis have every met the qualifying commonplace for the NCAA Zone Meet.

The most important accomplishments, nevertheless, have been these of freshman Julia Iwanow. She has been named the America East Rookie of the Week a conference-best six instances this season. In addition, she broke the Binghamton program document within the 200 breast that was set by 2024 America East champion Lauren Kuzma. Iwanow’s time of two:14.07 on the Bucknell Invitational on Oct. 25 shaved over a second off of Kuzma’s mark of two:15.38.

Iwanow has posted the highest girls’s instances within the America East this season in each the 100 breast (1:02.53) and 200 breast (2:14.07) whereas sophomore Eva Smith has turned within the quickest 100 again efficiency (56.34). Smith transferred to Binghamton from Cleveland State this previous summer time. 

A pair of Bearcat males have additionally earned weekly honors from the America East this season. They embody sophomore Evan Peters – who was named the Swimmer of the Week on Oct. 21 – and freshman Isaih Francis – who swept the weekly Swimming and Rookie of the Week honors on Nov. 4.

Peters has posted the highest males’s instances within the America East this season within the 200 free (1:38.85), 500 free (4:31.55), 200 again (1:49.55) and 400 IM (4:00.11).

The Magnus Cup marks the Bearcats’ closing competitors of the autumn semester.