Swimming & Diving Wraps Opening Day of the Malone Invitational

CANTON, Ohio – The Washington & Jefferson College swimming & diving groups opened motion on the annual Malone Invitational hosted by the Division II Malone Pioneers. The males are at present in sixth place whereas the ladies wrapped day one in 11^th.
 

Leading the W&J males was the relay unit of Ethan Glessner (McKeesport, Pa./Elizabeth Forward), Nathaniel Harden (Greensburg, Pa./Hempfield Area), March Yuan (Simi Valley, Calif./Oak Park) and Daniel Jeffries (Irwin, Pa./Hempfield Area) within the 400-yard medley relay. The unit completed with a time of three:34.55, that includes a season-best break up within the 100-yard breaststroke from Harden.
 
The quad consisting of Jeffries, Corbin Likar (Amity, Pa./Trinity), Aiden Marks (West Mifflin, Pa./West Mifflin) and Brian Lowry (Wenonah, N.J./Gloucester County Institute of Technology) raced to a seventh-place end within the 200-yard freestyle relay. The unit outpaced it is mark from the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championships a season in the past by 0.6 seconds with a mark of 1:26.95.
 

Yuan led all W&J people with a 12^th-place end within the finals of the 500-yard freestyle with a mark of 4:53.02. His preliminary time of 4:52.94 was adequate for a season-best within the occasion.
 
Glessner completed 13^th with a time of two:02.37 within the 200-yard IM finals. Glessner paced his strategy to a personal-best within the occasion within the preliminary race, surpassing his earlier greatest within the occasion with a time of two:02.27.
 
Jeffries completed 16^th within the 50-yard freestyle finals with a mark of twenty-two.30. In the preliminary race, Jeffries hit a personal-best time within the occasion with a mark of 21.92.
 
Mackenzie Caron (Reading, Pa./Governor Mifflin) led the W&J ladies with its highest particular person end of ninth place within the 500-yard freestyle. She paced her strategy to a season-best time of 5:21.83 within the B remaining of the occasion, dropping 10 seconds off her earlier greatest which was set within the preliminary race.
 
The relay unit of Caron, Maddie Malone (Charlottesville, Va./Monticello), Riley Gutierrez (Deer Park, Texas/Deer Park) and Andrea DeLong (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan) completed 17^th within the 400-yard medley relay with a time of 4:35.95.
 
The crew of Caron, Malone, Gutierrez and Mela Barnhart (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan) raced their strategy to a 19^th place end within the 200-yard freestyle relay. The unit completed with a time of 1:52.58, that includes a personal-best break up by Caron within the 50-yard freestyle by 1.6 seconds.
 
Rachel Xu (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Allegheny), Audrey Kough (Fayetteville, Pa./Chambersburg), Sophie Talamonti (Flushing, Ohio/Union Local), Malone and DeLong every reached season and private bests within the preliminary rounds.
 
The Presidents return to the Malone Invitational on Friday (Nov. 21) for day two motion in Canton. Preliminary motion is about to start at 10:00 a.m. with finals to comply with beginning at 6:30 p.m.