Swimming and Diving Concludes Profitable Fall

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina girls’s swimming and diving group has concluded a formidable fall that featured a 5-2 file in twin meets, three American Conference Diving and Freshman Diving Athlete of the Week honors and quite a few program all-time high 10 performances and private data set.

“This has been a very successful fall for our team,” head coach Matthew Jabs mentioned. “Dual meet wise I’m pleased with where we stand and look forward to our last few meets on the schedule. As for the mid-season invitationals we attended, our results are starting to meet the expectations of our team, fans, and alumni. I was very proud of the way our girls competed at both meets. The effort they put in is starting to show up in our results.  We have significantly improved our standing within the conference rankings, and we still have room to improve which is exciting. Lastly, I can’t thank our coaches enough who have been working very hard with our athletes since August. When we see the results show up like they have, I feel very fortunate to have the opportunity to work with them daily.”  

The Pirates’ swimmers had a number of high 10 performances on the Gamecock Invitational final week, the place the Pirates completed fourth out of 9 groups. Carlie Clements set a brand new program file within the 100-backstroke with a time of 53.18 whereas additionally ending with a time of 1:57.99 (third all-time) within the 200-backstroke. Tanith Mueller continued her robust freshman season, setting a time 2:00.84 within the 200-butterfly (eighth all-time), 4:24.25 (ninth all-time) within the 400-individual medley, 16:53.92 within the 1650-free (eighth all-time) and setting a freshman program file within the 100-butterfly (54.09). Elena Dinehart recorded top-10 program instances within the pool as properly for the 200-backstroke (1:57.83), 100-backstroke (54.87) and 200-individual medley (2:02.93).

ECU was additionally robust on the diving boards as Frida Zuniga took American Conference Diving Athlete of the Week honors 3 times whereas Romina Hernandez and Cecilia Bragantini earned American Conference Freshman Diving Athlete of the Week twice and as soon as respectively. Hernandez’s rating of 190.05 within the platform on the Georgia Tech Invitational was seventh-best all-time in program historical past. The Pirates’ additionally had three NCAA Diving Zone Qualifiers in Zuniga, Hernandez and Bragantini whereas recording 19 CSCAA National Invitational Championship cuts. Zuniga set the Minges Natatorium file within the 3-meter earlier this month with a rating of 382.05 factors.