Pirates Return To Motion At Tribe Quad Meet On Friday

Hampton, Va. – The East Carolina swimming and diving workforce returns to motion this Friday on the Hampton Aquaplex to compete within the Tribe Quad Meet, dealing with Old Dominion, Richmond and William & Mary.

The 16-event meet will begin at 4 p.m. and followers can comply with dwell ends in the MeetCell app.

East Carolina comes off a profitable fall that featured a 5-2 mark in twin meets, three American Conference Diving and Freshman Diving Athlete of the Week honors and a number of prime 10 program performances and private information.

The Pirates’ swimmers had a number of prime 10 performances on the Gamecock Invitational, the place the Pirates completed fourth out of 9 groups. Carlie Clements set a brand new program report 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 report 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).

In the diving properly, Frida Zuniga took American Conference Diving Athlete of the Week honors thrice 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 report within the 3-meter earlier this month with a rating of 382.05 factors.

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East Carolina hosts Georgia Southern at Minges Natatorium on Jan. 24 at 1:30 p.m.