Gardner-Webb Swimming Defeats Cumberlands in Friday Meet Motion

BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – The Gardner-Webb swimming crew was again to Bost Pool for the primary time in 2026 on Friday night time to compete towards Cumberlands and UNC Asheville, with each the GWU women and men scoring crew victories towards the previous

With solely the ladies’s crew competing towards UNC Asheville, the Runnin’ Bulldogs began with a victory within the ladies’s 400-yard medley relay. Slawka Ndubuisi, Dakota Townley, Hannah Routh and Jenna Valentine posted a race-winning crew of three:55.16

Valentine was again within the pool as a person within the ladies’s-200 yard freestyle. The freshman was glorious within the discipline of six, ending second place in 1:59.12 with a lightning quick 27.73 break up, the quickest of anybody within the warmth. Valentine additionally competed within the ladies’s-200 yard butterfly, successful in 2:11.82

Ndubuisi returned to the pool for the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle, the place the Columbia, S.C. scored a person victory. Ndubuisi recorded a time of 24.06 seconds, almost a second and a half sooner than second place, to win the warmth. She’d additionally take first within the ladies’s 100-yard freestyle in 53.17 seconds a short time later

Elsewhere for GWU, Townley scored a victory within the ladies’s 200-yard breaststroke in 2:19.33, and Routh was second within the ladies’s 200 yard backstroke with a time of two:12.86

On the lads’s facet, Luke Weber and Santiago Alcantara went 1-2 within the males’s 1000-yard freestyle. Weber received the occasion in 9:33.63, whereas Alcantara was simply behind with a time of 9:45.50. Alcantara would go on to take first place within the males’s 200 yard butterfly later within the day, recording a time of 1:53.20, simply forward of GWU teammate Alex Cook who posted 1:53.86 in second

Also high step of the rostrum for GWU have been Victor Cury and Agustin Orechia. In the lads’s 200-yard backstroke, Orechia defeated all opponents in 1:55.21. Meanwhile within the males’s 500-yard freestyle, Cury was victorious in 4:38.42. Weber was simply behind for the Dawgs in 4:39, whereas Alcantara positioned third in 4:49.28

Another sturdy occasion for the Gardner-Webb males was the lads’s 200-yard IM. Defending ASUN champion Justin Bender managed to tie for first place, recording a time of 1:57.08 with a 27.06 last break up. Gardner-Webb would go 3-4-5 as effectively, with Jojo Frye (1:57.25), Dan Bennett (1:59.96) and Thomas Adam (2:03.84) within the occasion discipline