Males’s and Ladies’s Swimming Host Mary Washington For Code Red

Lynchburg, Va. — The University of Lynchburg males’s and ladies’s swim groups acquired competed for his or her first time in 2026 in opposition to Mary Washington for the crew’s Code Red occasion and fell simply brief on Saturday afternoon on the Liberty Natatorium.

Both the lads’s and ladies’s squads battled by way of the top in opposition to the Eagles. The males’s crew was nipped by UMW, 141-121, and the ladies’s crew fell 156-106. The Hornets opened their meet with a powerful displaying throughout each relay and particular person occasions.

Lynchburg picked up early momentum within the males’s 200-yard medley relay, because the crew of Henry Brooks, Ryan Bambrick, Owen Howery, and Adam Fisher touched first with a time of 1:34.00. On the ladies’s facet, the Lynchburg A relay of Abigail Schneider, Gracie Maughan, Sydney Weeks, and Sophia Schorr completed second in 1:52.00.

Distance occasions highlighted a number of robust particular person efforts for the Hornets. In the ladies’s 1000-yard freestyle, Lindsay Hanks led the Lynchburg group with a time of 11:53.61, adopted by Jordyn Adametz and Sydney Parrott. The males’s 1000-yard freestyle noticed Jackson Holsten declare a first-place end in 10:25.06, with Ahmad Woodson ending second in 10:28.04. Franco Gastaldi Fossat and Keegan Williamson additionally contributed strong swims for Lynchburg. Holsten continued to impress with a dominant first-place within the 500-yard freestyle in 4:55.79.

Sprint occasions continued to showcase depth for the Hornets. Sophia Schorr received the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle with a time of 24.74, whereas Sienna Schmeck positioned second. Holsten adopted his distance victory by successful the lads’s 200-yard freestyle in 1:46.08, with Fisher shut behind in second. Brooks added a first-place end within the males’s 100-yard backstroke, touching in 50.72.

Charlotte Grieve earned a victory within the ladies’s 200-yard butterfly with a time of two:19.80. Connor Marshall completed second within the males’s 200-yard butterfly, whereas a number of Hornets added depth swims all through the occasion lineup. Lynchburg continued to submit aggressive performances by way of the ultimate occasions, with robust finishes within the freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke races to spherical out the meet.

The remaining two occasions have been the electrifying 400-yard freestyle relays for each the men and women. The ladies’s group of Weeks, Maughan, Schmeck, and Schneider took first total with a time of three:45.25, whereas the collective of Lilly Pifer, Eliza Fleenor, Giuli Soria, and Reagan Leech completed in third. The males’s crew of Wyatt Dacus, Jacob Andrews, Fisher, and Brooks earned second place and the foursome of Holsten, Marshall, Fossat, and Tyler Caten adopted up with a third-place end.

The males’s and ladies’s swim groups will return to the pool on the finish of the month once they host the Battle of the Burg on the Liberty Natatorium on Saturday, Jan. 31 beginning at midday.

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