TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The No. 12/NR Florida State swimming and diving workforce was victorious in 30 of 34 occasions to defeat Villanova on Senior Day on the Morcom Aquatics Center on Tuesday afternoon.
The Twelfth-ranked Seminole males defeated the Wildcats 261-59, whereas the ladies topped Villanova 205-114. The workforce recorded 15 1-2-3 finishes and 9 extra 1-2 finishes.
Prior to the meet, the Seminoles acknowledged their 16 seniors as a part of the workforce’s annual Senior Day celebration. Tuesday’s meet marked the ultimate house meet of the 2025-26 season.
“We got two good W’s today,” FSU head coach
Neal Studd stated. “We had some pretty good swims across the board, really knocking off the rust after the break. That’s really what this meet is about, getting our team ready for what’s coming up, and I thought they did really well. Obviously, it was a great Senior Day. I don’t think anyone does Senior Day better than us, and a lot of emotions, a lot of happy people, a lot of great memories. These seniors have done amazing things for us, so it was a great day to honor them.”
Florida State’s males received all 17 occasions they competed in, with three particular person victories coming from sophomore
Michel Arkhangelsky. His first was within the 50 freestyle with a brand new season-best time of 20.75. Arkhangelsky additionally recorded a win within the 50 backstroke (22.01) and led a 1-2-3 end within the 100 freestyle (43.18).
Senior
Julia Mansson led the best way for the ladies’s workforce, sweeping the three breaststroke occasions. She received the 50 (27.99), 100 (1:01.51), and 200 breaststroke (2:13.80) occasions.
Opening the competitors with a sweep within the 200 medley relay, the boys’s workforce of seniors
Max Wilson and
Tommaso Baravelli, Arkhangelsky and senior
Sam Bork touched first in 1:26.18, whereas the ladies’s relay of sophomore
Alice Velden, freshman
Martina Fanunza and sophomores
Maryn McDade and
Mary Leigh Hardman additionally claimed the highest spot in 1:38.77.
The Seminoles continued their momentum in distance occasions, sweeping the 1,000 freestyle because of senior
Julia Brzozowski (10:02.14) and sophomore Fred Lindholm (9:21.33).
Lindholm additionally picked up one other win within the 500 freestyle (4:30.02), main a 1-2 end for Florida State.
Sophomore
Logan Robinson recorded two particular person victories, the primary within the 200 freestyle (1:35.22) and the second within the 100 particular person medley (48.44).
In the 50 butterfly, sophomore
Maryn McDade took first in 23.71, whereas sophomore
Mathias Christensen earned the win within the 200 butterfly (1:45.65). McDade and Christensen then each earned their second particular person victories, McDade within the 50 freestyle (22.65), and Christensen within the 200 breaststroke (1:57.84).
Backstroke occasions have been led by Velden and senior
Jaka Pusnik. Velden completed first on the ladies’s aspect in each the 50 (25.17) and 100 again (54.45), whereas Pusnik got here out on prime within the 200 again (1:47.95) and within the 100 with a season-best 48.70.
Other particular person occasion winners included Baravelli within the 100 breaststroke (54.50), Bork within the 50 freestyle (20.00), Hardman within the 100 freestyle (50.32), senior
Marcos Egri-Martin within the 50 breast (24.91), senior
Sarah Evans within the 200 backstroke (1:59.14), junior
Tobias Schulrath within the 100 butterfly (47.38) and freshman Ioana-Maria Stirbu within the 200 freestyle (1:48.38).
To shut out the meet, the Seminoles accomplished their fifteenth sweep of the competitors within the 200 freestyle relay. Arkhangelsky, Schulrath, junior
Andrew Rich and Robinson bought it completed for the boys (1:19.55), whereas sophomore
Nika Steigerwald, Hardman, McDade and Velden mixed for the win on the ladies’s aspect (1:32.57).
Up subsequent, the Seminoles will journey to Athens, Georgia, to compete towards No. 7/18 Georgia and Arkansas at Gabrielsen Natatorium on Saturday, January 10 at 11:00 a.m. ET.
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