Swimming & Diving Return To Motion At Terrier Invitational

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – After a three-week hiatus, the Fairfield University males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups will likely be again within the pool this weekend. The Stags will head north for his or her annual trek to the Terrier Invitational, a multi-day occasion hosted by Boston University.

This yr’s occasion will function the lads’s and girls’s groups from Boston College, Bryant University, UMass, and Fairfield University. The Northeastern University girls’s crew may also compete as will the diving groups from Army West Point and Colgate University.

In final yr’s Terrier Invitational, the Fairfield males’s crew took third place total whereas the ladies’s program posted a fifth-place end. The Stags have competed on the Terrier Invitational yearly because the 2021-22 marketing campaign.

In their final outing, the Fairfield University males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups break up a twin meet with Fordham University. The males’s crew edged out the Rams whereas the ladies’s squad got here up quick in opposition to the host crew.

Four Fairfield swimmers garnered a pair of first-place swims throughout the Fordham meet. Balazs Ament received each of breaststroke occasions, posting the profitable time within the 100 (56.94) and the 200 (2:04.17). Andrew Nathe picked up two wins within the freestyle, touching the wall first within the 50 (21.23) and the 100 (46.47) sprints.

On the ladies’s aspect, Tone Sandsjo and Natasha De Pree introduced house a pair of victories. Sandsjo earned gold in each breaststroke races, recording a time of 1:04.01 within the 100 and a couple of:23.63 within the 200 swims. De Pree garnered first-place finishes within the freestyle, competing within the 200 (1:53.58) and the five hundred (5:02.15).

The Terrier Invitational will open competitors on Friday, November 21 with seven occasions on the docket that day. The 200 free relay, the five hundred free, the 200 IM, the 50 free, the ladies’s 1-meter dive, the lads’s 3-meter dive, and the 400 medley relay will likely be held with the preliminaries starting at 10 am and the finals beginning at 6 pm.

Following the Terrier Invitational, the Stags will break from competitors for the semester. The Fairfield University swimming and diving groups will return to the water on January 10 with a tri-meet in opposition to host Colgate University and Boston University. One week later, the Stags will host their remaining house occasion of the season, welcoming Iona University on January 17.