UMass Swimming & Diving Takes Down Bryant

Recap courtesy of UMass’ Athletic Communications Department

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts swimming and diving group defeated Bryant University in a twin meet on the Joseph R. Rogers Jr., Pool on Monday afternoon. The ladies’s group received 181-119 over the Bulldogs, whereas the boys’s group got here out on high 205-91.

Both the Minutewomen and Minutemen mixed for 53 top-three finishes on the day, together with 27 gold medals.

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 swam 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 group 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 group of Tedesco, Schoenauer, Everly and Cakiroglu claimed first with a time of three:33.13, whereas the group consisting of Stoura, Baranova, Burbage and Ackerman-Vallala took second within the occasion with a time of three:38.60.

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 decide 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.  

Up Next

The ladies’s group travels to Storrs, Connecticut, for a twin meet towards UConn at 1 p.m. on Saturday, January 10. 

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