GVSU swim groups sweep GLIAC titles once more with NCAA qualifying occasions

HOLLAND – The Grand Valley State swimming and diving groups swept the GLIAC Championships.

This marks the ladies’s fourth consecutive title and their eighth general, as they completed with a rating of 1,095 within the meet, which completed Monday, Feb. 9, at Holland Aquatic Center. The males scored 847.5 to earn their twelfth consecutive title and their fifteenth general.

All particular person GVSU winners reached NCAA Division II provisional qualifying occasions.

Lucy Hedley claimed the GLIAC title within the 100 freestyle with a time of 49.37, marking her fourth GLIAC title of the championship meet. Avery Rottier earned third within the 100 freestyle with a time of fifty.86.

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Hedley additionally gained the 50 freestyle (22.72), 500 freestyle (4:50.70) and 200 free (1:47.37) in NCAA provisional qualifying occasions.

Proietti captured the GLIAC title within the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:58.40. Alice Persson was second with a time of two:00.55. Proietti additionally gained the 100 again in 55.01.

Elliott McAlpine broke each the college document and the GLIAC meet document within the 200 breaststroke, successful gold with a time of two:13.91. She additionally gained the 200 IM in 2:03.97.

Katie O’Connell gained the 1,000 freestyle in 10:00.31. and the 400 IM in 4:17.12, breaking the GLIAC meet document in an NCAA minimize.

The girls’s 400 freestyle relay group gained with a time of three:23.39. Members of the relay group included Rottier, Villamil, Angilletta, and Hedley. Rottier, Villamil, Samara Zeinert and Hedley gained the 200 free relay in 1:33.00, an NCAA B minimize. Victoria Proietti, Olivia Geiger, Rottier and Hedley gained the 400 medley relay in 3:42.80.

Angelica Angilletta, Proietti, Linda Frick and O’Connell gained the 800 free relay in 7:28.63.

Gaia Tomaselli gained the 200 butterfly in 2:04.22.

GVSU’s Olivia Kutsche gained 3-meter diving with 444.10 factors.

In the boys’s meet, Mahmoud El Walid Abdelkarim, Andrew Goh, Keiran Rahmaan and Evan Scotto DiVetta gained the 200 medley relay in 1:26.32, an NCAA Division II provisional qualifying time.

Evan Scotto DiVetta gained the GLIAC title within the 100 freestyle with a time of 43.19, adopted intently by Mahmoud Abdelkarim, who earned silver in 43.38. Scotto DiVetta additionally gained the 200 free in 1:36.82.

Andrew Goh gained the GLIAC title within the 200 breaststroke, touching the wall at 1:58.11. He additionally gained the 100 breast in 53.51.

Rahmaan gained the 100 butterfly in 47.23, one other NCAA B minimize.

Abdelkarim, Goh, Rahmaan and Scotto DiVetta gained the 400 medley relay in 3:10.70. Abdelkarim gained the 100 again in 47.00

Davenport locals

Davenport’s Parker Schut, a freshman from Holland, was second in 1-meter diving with a rating of 456.1. The former Holland Christian state champion additionally took fifth on 3-meter (472.75.

Davenport’s Claire DeKievit (Holland Christian) took eleventh within the 100 breaststroke (1:04.59) and fifteenth within the 200 breaststroke (2:27.02).

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