Swimming & Diving Defeat Fairfield On Senior Day

AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts swimming and diving staff took down Fairfield University in a twin meet on the Joseph R. Rogers Jr., Pool on Saturday afternoon on Senior Day. The ladies’s staff received 176-124 over the Stags, whereas the boys’s staff got here out on high 189-110.

Both the Minutewomen and Minutemen mixed for 57 top-three finishes on the day, together with 24 gold medals.

Freshman Hudson Bawduniak of the Minutemen posted the highest mark within the 100 breaststroke in program historical past, in addition to a Joseph R. Rogers Jr., Pool file.

Women’s Swimming & Diving
The Minutewomen totaled 28 top-three finishes on the day to go alongside, whereas accumulating 11 gold medals.

Junior Ece Yildirim picked up the silver within the 1,00 freestyle with a personal-best time of 10:18.75. Yildirim’s time marked the eighth-best all-time file in program historical past.

In the 200 freestyle, junior Beren Cakiroglu sat atop the rostrum with a season-best time of 1:51.20. Fellow junior Diya Ackerman-Vallala swam a season-best time of 1:53.95 to complete third.

The 100 backstroke noticed sophomore Maria Grishaeva swim into first with a time of 56.77. Junior Lindsay Burbage was second within the 100 breaststroke with a season-best time of 1:02.97, as freshman Kate Baranova adopted in third with a time of 1:03.68.

Sophomore Hannah Schoenauer swam into second place with a season-best time of two:06.43 within the 200 butterfly. Sophomore Courtney Tedesco touched the wall first within the 50 freestyle with a personal-best time of 23.39, which marked the sixth-best time in program historical past.

The Minutewomen swept the rostrum within the 100 freestyle, as Cakiroglu took first with a time of 51.32, Tedesco positioned second with a time of 51.71 and sophomore Karinne Everly was third with a time of 52.34. Grishaeva grabbed the gold for the second time on the afternoon within the 200 backstroke with a time of two:01.68, marking a personal-best and the third-best mark in program historical past. Junior Olga Stoura took third within the occasion with a time of two:06.42.

In the 200 breaststroke, Burbage secured the gold with a season-best time of two:18.42 , as sophomore Kendal Gilbert positioned second with a personal-best time of two:19.15. marking the seventh-best time in program historical past. Schoenauer completed second within the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:03.70.

Everly was second within the 100 butterfly with a time of 56.24. Grishaeva earned her third gold medal of the day with a time of two:04.33 within the 200 particular person medley, as Ackerman-Vallala took the silver with a time of two:05.09. Ackerman-Vallala’s time moved her sixth within the all-time program information.

In the relays, the 200 medley relay staff of Grishaeva, Baranova, Everly and Tedesco mixed for a time of 1:44.03 to swim into first. Cakiroglu, Burbage, Schoenauer and Ackerman-Vallala took third within the occasion with a time of 1:45.67.

The 400 freestyle relay staff of Tedesco, Schoenauer, Everly and Cakiroglu claimed first with a time of three:27.31, whereas the staff consisting of Baranova, Stoura, Burbage and Ackerman-Vallala took third within the occasion with a time of three:33.63.


Men’s Swimming & Diving
The Minutemen tallied 29 top-three finishes, including 13 gold medals on the day.

Junior Jude Boukarroum kicked off the person occasions with a first-place end within the 1,000 freestyle with a personal-best time of 9:32.89. Freshman Miles Smyczek was third with a season-best time of 9:41.46.

Senior Sammy Quigg grabbed the gold medal within the 200 freestyle with a season-best time of 1:38.41. Freshman Liam Hickey was second within the 100 backstroke with a time of fifty.37, whereas junior Cole Brooks took third with a time of fifty.54.

In the 100 breaststroke, Bawduniak swam the highest all-time mark within the 100 breaststroke with a time of 54.38, which additionally marked a Joseph R. Rogers Jr., Pool file, to take residence the gold medal. Sophomore Nate Derby was third with a time of 55.94.

Junior Aydin Erkan recorded a time of 1:50.41 within the 200 butterfly to say the gold medal, as sophomore Liam Rayson positioned third with a time of 1:54.30. The 50 freestyle noticed Quigg decide up his second gold medal with a time of 20.59, whereas senior Aidan Shepston secured the silver with a time of 20.85.

Quigg earned his third gold medal after swimming a time of 44.93 within the 100 freestyle. Freshman Macek Vandermolen adopted in second-place with a time of 45.42. Sophomore Chase Keeler completed the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:49.95 to garner the silver medal.

In the 200 breaststroke, freshman Eli Panachyda swam the fourth-best time in program historical past of 1:59.42 within the 200 breaststroke to take a seat atop the rostrum. Derby was third with a time of two:03.78 within the occasion.

Boukarroum swam into third with a time of 4:42.01 within the 500 freestyle. Bawduniak was first within the 100 butterfly with a time of 49.32, adopted by Erkan in second with a time of fifty.22. In the 200 particular person medley, Keeler took second with a time of 1:52.93 and Derby was third with a time of 1:54.61.

During the relay occasions, the staff of Brooks, Bawduniak, Shepston and Vandermolen positioned first with a time of 1:31.21 within the 200 medley relay. Hickey, freshman Chase Dai, Erkan and Derby took third within the occasion with a mixed time of 1:33.71.

In the 400 freestyle relay, Shepston, junior Alonso Montori, Vandermolen and Quigg took first with a mixed time of three:00.51. The staff of Brooks, Hickey, Rayson and sophomore Daniel Strumidlo positioned third within the occasion with a time of three:04.56.

On The Boards
The Minutewomen swept the rostrum within the three-meter dive, as sophomore Danielle Guerin positioned first with a personal-best rating of 284.48. Seniors Salem Howes (255.15) and Shreeya Sinha (235.20) took second and third, respectively, within the occasion.

Guerin grabbed the gold within the one-meter dive with a complete of 279.75, whereas Howes earned the silver with a rating of 255.08.

For the Minutemen, sophomore Alex Kreidler secured first-place with a six-dive whole of 334.65 within the one-meter dive. Fellow classmate Gavin Buttram completed third with a rating of 257.85 within the occasion.

Kreidler picked up the gold within the three-meter dive with a personal-best whole of 391.65, which put him second within the all-time program information. Freshman Carson Harrington positioned second with a rating of 299.10 within the occasion.

Up Next
Both the boys’s and girls’s swim staff journey to Bronx, New York, to tackle Fordham on Saturday, Jan. 31, at 12 p.m., because the swimmer’s shut out the common season earlier than convention championships.