Swimming and Diving Dominate in Triple Twin

PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla. — The Ave Maria Swimming and Diving group hosted and took part of their first ever triple twin meet, which is when one group competes head-to-head in opposition to three different groups at the very same time. The Gyrene males received two of their three twin meets on Saturday, beating New College of Florida and Life and falling to Barry, whereas the Gyrene girls swept the day and received all three meets.

Before the beginning of the meet, the Gyrenes celebrated senior day and honored the 12 upperclassmen on the group.

 On the lads’s facet, the Gyrenes blew the Mighty Banyans out of the water 179-16 and acquired a detailed win over the Running Eagles 131-125. The males’s loss to the Buccaneers was by a slender margin, falling 154-105.

The males had a few solo first place finishes with Sam Pilkington profitable the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 57.32 seconds and Eli Soderberg profitable the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:57.76. Nine different swims landed a Gyrene on the rostrum and contributed to their excessive scores in opposition to every group.

In the 2 relay races, the Gyrene males received the 200-yard medley relay, beating Life by over half a second, and completed third within the 400-yard freestyle relay.

On the ladies’s facet, the Gyrenes dominated their competitors, beating the Mighty Banyans 161-57, the Buccaneers 143-86 and the Running Eagles 138-120.

The Gyrenes took down one college file within the meet, with Delaney Weisbruch clocking a time of two:11.78 within the 200-yard butterfly. That certified Weisbruch for the NAIA B-cut and beat the earlier college file by 0.26 of a second.

Weisbruch received the 200-yard butterfly with that point, and it was one of many 4 solo wins for the Gyrenes. Weisbruch additionally received the 200-yard particular person medley with a time of two:14.65, Mimi Estrada received the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:00.21 and Gabby Darakchieva received the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:02.43. Five different swims positioned both second or third and boosted AMU’s rating.

In the 2 group occasions, the Gyrenes received each relays with a ending time of 1:53.20 within the 200-yard medley relay and a 3:48.23 within the 400-yard freestyle relay.

Ave Maria is again within the pool Friday, January 23, as they host Indian River State College of their remaining twin meet of the common season. The Gyrenes swam in opposition to IRSC in a double twin in November and fell to the River on each the lads’s and girls’s facet. The meet will happen on the FGCU Aquatics Center in Fort Myers, Fla.