Hawks Swim to twenty-eight Private Bests and a third Place Mixed End at King Midseason Meet

KINGSPORT, T.N. – The Chowan University swim workforce wrapped up the ultimate session on the 2025 King Tornado Mid-season Invitational on Wednesday night with a 3rd place mixed workforce end. Mars Hill University and the host workforce, King University, completed forward of the Hawks within the three-day occasion. The Hawks outpaced Barton and West Virginia Tech all weekend to seize the third place end. 

The Hawks swimmers on each the boys’s and girls’s groups turned in private bests on the ultimate day of competitors and ended the occasion with nineteen medals (4 gold, 3 silver, 12 bronze).  Twenty-eight instances the Hawks swimmers swam private bests in occasions whereas 11 instances Hawks swimmers recorded season bests. Robert Liz Cabrera, Dimitrije Markovic, Vanja Romic, and Sara Turanjanin every grabbed gold medals within the three-day occasion. Liz Cabrera posted a private finest within the 50 free to take the gold, as did Markovic within the 500 freestyle. Romic set a college document to seize gold within the 100 breaststroke and Turanjanin took the highest spot within the 100 backstroke.   

FINAL SESSION RESULTS 

INSIDE THE LANES 

Chowan acquired strong performances from Hawks swimmers on each side of Wednesday’s ultimate session, together with a second place end by freshman Michael Grenier within the 1650 race. Grenier touched the wall within the 1650 with a time of 17:13.99 to earn his second medal of the three-day occasion. His second place end was a private finest within the occasion. 

Elizabeth Waltz swam a private finest within the 200 again stroke, ending at 2:55.56 to open the ultimate session. On the boys’s aspect, Stefan Reedy swam a private finest in the identical occasion, touching the wall at 2:21.09 to complete third and earn a bronze medal. 

In the 100 freestyle, Vanja Romic and Sara Turanjanin completed 4th and fifth, additionally handing over private bests within the occasion. Lina Danna completed in seventh place, swimming a private finest within the occasion with a time of 56.08. 

Robert Liz Cabrera picked up a bronze medal within the 100 freestyle after swimming a private finest within the occasion. Liz Cabrera touched the wall at 46.29. Teammates Aleksei Belolipetskii and Dimitrije Markovic completed simply milliseconds behind Liz Cabrera touching the wall for 4th and fifth place finishes. 

Emma Rooney completed sixth within the 200 breaststroke on the ladies’s aspect whereas Grenier turned in one other private finest in the identical occasion, touching the wall at 2:12.90 for a fifth place end. 

In the ultimate relay of the occasion, the Hawks groups swam to a third place end within the 400 freestyle relay. Sara Turanjanin, Vanja Romic, Lina Danna, and Emma Rooney swam to a third place end with a time of three:43.80. On the boys’s aspect, the workforce was anchored by veteran swimmers Robert Liz Cabera, Aleksei Belolipetskii, Dimitrije Markovic and newcomer expertise Michael Grenier. The workforce touched the wall at 3:08.99, simply milliseconds off a second place contact. 

UP NEXT

Following the mid-season meet, the Hawks will take time to get well earlier than returning to the competitors section within the new yr. The Hawks will host Virginia Wesleyan on January twenty fourth in a 1:00pm meet at Bynum Brown Aquatic Center.