Swimming & Diving Take Down Bryant

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AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts swimming and diving crew defeated Bryant University in a twin meet on the Joseph R. Rogers Jr., Pool on Monday afternoon. The girls’s crew gained 181-119 over the Bulldogs, whereas the lads’s crew got here out on prime 205-91.
 
Both the Minutewomen and Minutemen mixed for 53 top-three finishes on the day, together with 27 gold medals.
 
Women’s Swimming & Diving
The Minutewomen totaled 26 top-three finishes on the day to go alongside, whereas gathering 12 gold medals.
 
Freshman Flora Klimesch started the person occasions with a second-place end within the 1,000 freestyle with a time of 10:36.15
 
In the 200 freestyle, the Minutewomen took two spots on the rostrum, as junior Beren Cakiroglu swam a time of 1:53.65 to put first, whereas sophomore Hannah Schoenauer earned second with a time of 1:55.56.
 
The 100 backstroke noticed sophomore Maria Grishaeva swim into first with a time of 57.57. Junior Lindsay Burbage sat atop the rostrum within the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:04.90 with freshman Kate Baranova following in second with a time of 1:05.54.  
 
Sophomore Karinne Everly recorded a time of two:08.58 to take second within the 200 butterfly. Sophomore Courtney Tedesco earned first place within the 50 freestyle with a time of 23.98.
 
Cakiroglu garnered her second gold of the day with a time of 52.26 within the 100 freestyle, with Tedesco putting second with a time of 53.49. Grishaeva took first within the 200 backstroke with a season-best time of two:05.14, as junior Olga Stoura completed third with a time of two:10.95.
 
In the 200 breaststroke, Burbage secured the gold with a time of two:23.42, with junior Diya Ackerman-Vallala putting third with a time of two:24.12. Klimesch grabbed the silver within the 500 freestyle with a personal-best time of 5:07.78, as Everly positioned second within the 100 butterfly with a time of 57.71.
 
Ackerman-Vallala and Grishaeva closed out the person occasions with a first- and second-place end within the 200 particular person medley, respectively. Ackerman-Vallala swam a time of two:07.78, whereas Grishaeva had a time of two:08.26.
In the relays, the 200 medley relay crew of Grishaeva, Baranova, Everly and Tedesco mixed for a time of 1:44.90 to swim into first. Cakiroglu, Burbage, Schoenauer and Ackerman-Vallala took second within the occasion with a time of 1:46.61.
 
The 400 freestyle relay crew of Tedesco, Schoenauer, Everly and Cakiroglu claimed first with a time of three:33.13, whereas the crew consisting of Stoura, Baranova, Burbage and Ackerman-Vallala took second within the occasion with a time of three:38.60.
 
 
Men’s Swimming & Diving
The Minutemen tallied 27 top-three finishes, including 15 gold medals on the day.
 
Freshman Miles Smyczek kicked off the person occasions with a first-place end within the 1,000 freestyle with a season-best time of 9:48.95.  
 
Senior Sammy Quigg grabbed the gold medal within the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:40.48, whereas freshman Sota Kawahata took second with a season-best time of 1:42.29. Junior Cole Brooks and sophomore Chase Keeler completed first and second, respectively, within the 100 backstroke. Brooks swam a season-best time of 51.13, whereas Keeler had a time of 51.95.
 
The Minutemen swept the rostrum within the 100 breaststroke. Freshman Hudson Bawduniak sat atop the rostrum with a personal-best time of 55.52, marking the eighth all-time mark in program historical past. Fellow classmate Eli Panachyda adopted in second with a time of 58.31, whereas sophomore Nate Derby was third with a time of 58.38.
 
Junior Aydin Erkan recorded a time of 1:54.29 within the 200 butterfly to assert the gold medal. Freshman Macek Vandermolen secured the silver within the 50 freestyle with a time of 21.54.
 
Quigg earned his second gold medal with a time of 45.27 within the 100 freestyle with Vandermolen putting third with a time of 47.11. Keeler swam into first within the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:52.73 as freshman Chase Dai earned second within the occasion with a time of 1:54.08.
 
In the 200 breaststroke, Panachyda secured the gold with a time of two:05.60. Kawahata additionally earned the gold within the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:41.76, whereas sophomore Daniel Strumidlo positioned third with a time of 4:48.95.
 
Bawduniak (49.67) and Erkan (51.80) completed second and third, respectively, within the 100 butterfly.
 
Keeler and Dai completed out the person occasions for the Minutemen, as Keeler took first with a time of 1:55.66 and Dai positioned second with a time of 1:56.97.
 
During the relay occasions, the crew of Keeler, Bawduniak, senior Aidan Shepston and Quigg positioned first with a time of 1:32.71 within the 200 medley relay. Brooks, Dai , Erkan and Vandermolen took third within the occasion with a mixed time of 1:34.22.
 
In the 400 freestyle relay, sophomore Liam Rayson, Shepston, Vandermole and Quigg took first with a mixed time of three:05.11. The crew of Brooks, junior Alonso Montori, Strumidlo and Kawahata positioned third within the occasion with a time of three:10.26.
 
On The Boards
In the three-meter dive, sophomore Danielle Guerin secured the gold with a six-dive complete of 283.50. Fellow classmate Khrystyna Yaremyn garnered the bronze with a rating of 273.30.  
 
The one-meter dive for the Minutewomen noticed sophomore Guerin choose up her second gold medal with a complete of 282.45, whereas Yaremyn earned her second bronze of the day with a rating of 255.45.  
 
For the Minutemen, sophomore Alex Kreidler secured first within the one-meter with a personal-best rating of 358.50, marking the third-best mark in program historical past. Freshman Carson Harrington adopted shut behind in second with a six-dive complete of 316.50.  
 
In the three-meter, Kreidler grabbed his second gold of the afternoon after incomes a complete of 367.73, as Harrington earned his second silver medal with a rating of 344.63.  
 
Kreidler took second within the occasion with a six-dive complete of 369.53, which marked a personal-best and the fourth-best rating in program historical past.
 
Up Next
The girls’s crew travels to Storrs, Connecticut, for a twin meet towards UConn at 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 10. 

Both the lads’s and girls’s swim crew then put together for the Tate Ramsden Invitational, hosted by Dartmouth, on Friday, January 16 by Saturday, January 17, in Hanover, New Hampshire. Friday’s occasions start at 5 p.m., whereas Saturday’s occasion begin at 10 a.m. and full at 3 p.m.

 


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