Men’s and girls’s swimming and diving every kept their nine-victory streak towards Georgetown University alive on senior evening within the Smith Center this weekend.
The girls’s contest got here all the way down to the ultimate race of the day within the 200-yard freestyle relay, the place the Revolutionaries A relay swam a 1:32:55 notching a meet victory, 141-140. Senior Ava Topolewski anchored the relay along with racking up three particular person race wins, hitting the wall first within the 50-yard, 200-yard and 500-yard freestyle, securing 27 whole factors for the Revs.
The males’s crew relied on an early 1-2 punch within the 200-yard backstroke powered by senior Ganesh Sivaramakrishnan who gained the occasion in 48.52 and sophomore Holden Thomas who completed second in 49.22. Despite shedding the 200-yard freestyle relay on the finish of the evening, the crew secured the general meet victory 150-131.
Sivaramakrishnan additionally positioned second within the 100-yard particular person medley in a time of 51.13, second solely to fellow Rev sophomore Artur Tobler. Sophomore Shae Stratton raced to victory within the 200-yard backstroke, ending in a time of 1:46:58.
On the board, the Revs diving duo of senior Olivia Paquette and graduate scholar Dara Reyblat completed within the high two slots for each the 1-meter and 3-meter competitions racking up a 14-point margin over the Hoyas on the diving board alone. The males’s divers additionally bought an edge over Georgetown on the board — 21-17 throughout the 2 occasions — off juniors Michael Wood and Ben Bradley’s 1-2 end within the 3-meter.
While the ladies’s crew relied on the standout efficiency of Topolewski and the cushion the diving finishes offered them, their lack of particular person wins exterior of that left them behind 136-128 going into the ultimate race. The crew of junior graduate scholar Joselle Mensah, junior Colleen MacWilliams, sophomore Natalie Sens and Topolewski gained the race, by simply .2 seconds giving the Revs a Senior day victory together with the B relay’s third place end.
In addition to the house meet towards Georgetown, the Revs competed towards Towson University on Friday, with the ladies’s crew tying 150-150 and the boys taking the win 168-131. Seven divers achieved NCAA Zone qualifying scores within the meet permitting them to compete in contests to achieve the NCAA Championships in March.
Paquette, Reyblat and sophomore Jadin Brown all certified within the 1-meter dive. Reyblat additionally certified within the 3-meter dive. On the boys’s aspect, Wood certified within the 1-meter, whereas Bradley and junior Holden Wheeler posted Zone qualifying scores within the 3-meter.
This season, each males’s and girls’s packages have struggled towards energy convention competitors like Virginia Tech and the University of Georgia early on, although a joint-victory over Army and the ladies’s victory over Navy function some shiny spots on the 12 months. The program has dominated the Atlantic-10 and Georgetown over the previous couple of years, however has but to safe wins towards extra established powerhouses.
Next up, the Revs will head to Pennsylvania State University on January 31 at 1 p.m. for his or her remaining twin meet of the season earlier than the A-10 championships in late February.