Swimming and Diving Competes in Ultimate Twin Meet

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Ave Maria Swimming and Diving crew competed of their ultimate twin meet of the common season Friday as they took on Indian River State College. Both the boys’s and girls’s groups fell to The River, however the Gyrenes nonetheless broke a couple of faculty data and gained some confidence heading into the Sun Conference Championships.

Maddie Lasnoski set each new data for the Women’s crew within the 100-yard breaststroke. In the primary 50 yards off the block, the sophomore from Hubertus, Wisconsin, clocked in at 32.08 seconds, breaking the earlier finest cut up time by 19 hundredths of second. Lasnoski stored the file tempo up and broke the file for the entire 100-yards as nicely with a time of 1:09.08. Lasnoski positioned third within the race, incomes Ave Maria one in all their seven third-place finishes for the meet.

Four swims in the course of the day met the necessities for the NAIA B-cut, placing the Gyrenes within the dialog for National Championship {qualifications}. Maryanna Matista hit the B-cut within the 200-yard freestyle and the 100-yard butterfly, Mimi Estrada made the reduce within the 200-yard butterfly and Gabby Darakchieva made the reduce for the 100-yard backstroke.

On the boys’s facet, Nathan Ramirez set the lone faculty file for the Gyrenes on Friday. In the inaugural season of Ave Maria Diving, Ramirez beat his preliminary rating within the 1-meter dive from November and set a brand new file of 119.92.

As a crew, the Gyrenes had one second-place end and eight third place finishes. Sam Pilkington recorded the lone second-place end within the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 56.05 seconds.

Jack Keyser hit the one NAIA B-cut for the crew on Friday within the 400-yard particular person medley.

The twin meet concluded the common season for the Gyrenes who now flip their focus to the Sun Conference Championships. Last 12 months, the Gyrenes had their finest exhibiting on the Championships in this system’s younger historical past, with Darakchieva profitable the primary ever gold medal and the ladies ending fourth general out of 9 groups.

The Championships will happen from February 5-7 in Ocala, Florida, on the Florida Aquatics Swimming and Training Center.