Swim & Dive Set for Highway and Dwelling Twin Meets

TOWSON, Md. – The Towson University males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups have highway and residential twin meets this week. First the Tigers will take a brief journey to the nation’s capital to face Howard on Wednesday, January 14 earlier than returning house to tackle George Washington at Burdick Pool on Friday, January 16. Both meets are set to begin with diving at 10 a.m. adopted by the swimming occasions.
 
Scouting the Opponents:

The Howard ladies’s swimming & diving crew is 2-3 in twin meets this season with victories over Mount Saint Mary’s and VMI whereas putting second within the Osprey Beach Blast Invitational and third within the H2ounds Invitational hosted by Loyola. The Howard males are 1-4 in twin meets with a win over American and have positioned second on the NJIT Invitational and fourth on the H2ounds Invitational.
 

The George Washington males’s swimming & diving crew are 2-4 in twin meets this season with victories over William & Mary and Army. The George Washington ladies are additionally 2-4 on the season in twin meets with wins over Army and Navy. The Revolutionaries swam on the Wolfpack Elite Invitational and dove on the Navy Invitational at mid-season.
 
The Season So Far:
The Tigers earned season opening victories over LaSalle with the ladies’s crew profitable 214-86 and the lads’s crew taking a 212-88 win. Divers Shannon Parrau and Sam Tennell swept the boards, and the Tigers gained all 4 relays. Sean Colson and debuting transfers Jed Garner and Christian Davidson all gained a number of particular person occasions for the lads whereas Riley Willett and Addie Scott did the identical for the ladies.
 
The subsequent week Towson hit the highway for a pair of twin meets the place each groups had 1-1 weekends. The males received a 185-115 win over Fordham on Friday, October 3 earlier than the ladies took down Seton Hall 207-92 on Saturday, October 4. Addie Scott went undefeated in 5 particular person occasions on the weekend whereas Madison Neal was a victor on each days within the 200 again. Garner was the very best scorer for the lads in each meets and Colson was unbeaten in each backstroke heats.
 
Towson was subsequent in motion on the Thomas Murphy Invite hosted by Loyola the place each the lads’s and girls’s groups earned second place finishes. Parrau was named the Female Diver of the Meet after sweeping the boards and setting a meet file within the 3-meter dive, and Garner set a pool file within the 200 breast. Meet data had been additionally set within the 1650 free by Davidson and within the 200 free by Scott.
 
The Tigers then entered the Patriot Invitational the place the lads’s crew earned the primary Towson Championship of the season behind three particular person wins by Jed Garner and college 100 and 200 backstroke file swims from Sean Colson. The 200 and 400 medley relay groups additionally set pool data. The ladies’s crew took second place as Addie Scott set a meet file within the 200 free and the 800 free relay additionally set a meet file.
 
Four Towson swimmers competed on the Toyota U.S. Open the place Garner made the B finals within the 50 breast, 100 breast and 200 breast. Garner additionally set a brand new Towson file within the lengthy course 200 breast. The males’s and girls’s diving groups entered the Retriever Diving Invite hosted by UMBC. Shannon Parrau swept the boards for the ladies and Sam Tennell gained the 1 meter dive.
 
The Tigers closed out 2025 with a pair of twin meets first taking over James Madison in a ladies’s twin meet, Scott gained two particular person occasions and the Towson 200 free relay crew broke a tie rating on the ultimate occasion to win the meet 153.5-144.5. The subsequent day each groups had been in motion towards George Mason and the Tigers accomplished a sweep of the Patriots behind three particular person occasions wins from Willett and Scott for the ladies and Colson and Garner for the lads.
 
The new yr started with a house males’s twin meet towards Navy. Despite Aidan Clark and Sam Tennell sweeping the boards and Christian Davidson taking the 1000 free, the Tiger males fell to the Midshipmen.
 
Towson Award Winners:
The first spherical of CAA weekly awards noticed three Tigers honored as Addie Scott was named CAA Women’s Swimmer of the Week, Sam Tennell earned the CAA Men’s Diver of the Week award and Shannon Parrau claimed CAA Women’s Diver of the Week.
 
Week 4 noticed the Tigers sweep the weekly convention honors as Jed Garner was named CAA Men’s Swimmer of the Week whereas Scott (CAA Women’s Swimmer of the Week), Parrau (CAA Women’s Diver of the Week), and Tennell (CAA Men’s Diver of the Week) every earned their second weekly award of the season.
 
Purrau (CAA Women’s Diver of the Week) and Garner (CAA Men’s Swimmer of the Week) had been weekly award winners in week eight marking Garner’s second win and Purrau’s third.
 
Towson gained all 4 convention weekly awards for the second time in week ten as Purrau gained CAA Women’s Diver of the Week quantity 4, and Scott acquired her third CAA Women’s Swimmer of the Week honor. Sean Colson (CAA Men’s Swimmer of the Week) and Aidan Clark (CAA Men’s Diver of the Week) every earned their first weekly awards of the season.
 
The Season Ahead:
The Towson males enter the season off a 4^th place end within the 2025 Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) Championships. The Tiger’s high returners embody senior Sean Colson, who gained gold, silver, and bronze medals on the convention championships final season; and sophomore Anthony Mortellite who was a CAA Swimmer of the Week and CAA Rookie of the Month as a freshman. Towson additionally brings again a 2024 CAA Diver of the Week in Aidan Clark in addition to juniors Stephen McDonald and Benjamin Eischeid, sophomore Geoffrey Cradock, and Seniors Daniel McLaughlin and David Walton who all posted high 10 instances in class historical past of their respective occasions this previous season.
 
The Tiger ladies head into the brand new season after putting 5^th on the CAA Championships in March. The high returners are highlighted by senior diver Shannon Parrau who gained silver on each boards on the convention championships and was a three-time CAA Diver of the Week. Towson additionally brings again sophomore Bjartey Gudmundsdottir and junior Riley Willett who had been members of the 200 free relay crew that gained silver at CAAs and set a brand new Towson file within the occasion. Willett additionally broke the college file within the 100 IM final season whereas Gudmundsdottir swam the second fasted 50 free in class historical past.