PARRA GOES BACK-TO-BACK AS DIVER OF THE MEET; SWIM AND DIVE IMPROVE AT NE10 CHAMPS

WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of Staten Island made its third look on the Northeast-10 (NE10) Championship, competing from Thursday, Feb. 12 via Sunday, Feb. 15.

Across 4 days of competitors, Yubal Parra repeated as NE10 Diver of the Meet, the Dolphins shattered faculty information, captured their first collegiate medals, and celebrated a historic milestone as the ladies’s workforce defeated Saint Michael’s for the primary time in program historical past when the ultimate standings have been introduced.

The ladies improved their place within the standings from final season, ending forward of each Saint Michael’s and Assumption University with 258.00 factors. The males’s workforce positioned fifth total with 315.00 factors.

Day 1
The championship opened on Thursday because the ladies’s 800 freestyle relay workforce of Maria Janecka, Maja Tomaszewska, Polly Struck, and Michalina Bukowska set a brand new faculty report with a time of 8:15.26. On the boys’s facet, Julian Lopez, William Kwan, Adria Garcia Fuentes, and James Curran positioned seventh in the identical occasion, touching the wall at 7:21.29.

Meanwhile, Yubal Parra took to the 3M diving occasion and delivered a commanding preliminary efficiency and posted a rating of 520.65 to advance comfortably into Friday’s finals.

Day 2
With momentum constructing, Parra returned for the 3M diving finals and delivered. The reigning NE10 Diver of the Meet captured gold with a remaining rating of 481.05, ending practically 100 factors forward of the runner-up. Jaqueline DeFranco adopted with a powerful exhibiting of her personal on the 1M board and positioned second within the preliminaries with a rating of 309.95 and later secured silver within the finals, posting a 323.90.

In the pool, Maria Janecka superior to the A Final within the 50 freestyle and narrowly missed her first collegiate medal, ending fourth in 24.51. However, her first NE10 medal is in her sights. On the boys’s facet, Vlad Siniagovskii competed within the B Final of the 50 free, ending with a time of 21.21.

Day 3
By Saturday, the Dolphins’ medal rely continued to develop. Janecka delivered a record-breaking preliminary swim within the 100 butterfly, setting a brand new faculty mark with a time of 57.60. She later returned for the finals and formally earned her first NE10 medal, ending third.

Siniagovskii added one other bronze for CSI within the 100 backstroke, touching in 49.96 to safe the workforce’s fourth medal of the week. Parra as soon as once more commanded the board, this time on the 1M and earned his second gold medal of the weekend with a rating of 505.50, propelling him towards his second Diver of the Meet honor.

Day 4
On the ultimate day of competitors, the Dolphins closed robust, bringing house three extra medals, together with the efficiency that formally secured Parra’s back-to-back NE10 Diver of the Meet title.

Janecka captured one other bronze medal within the 100 freestyle, ending third within the A Final with a time of 53.20. DeFranco added to her spectacular weekend with a second-place end within the 3-meter diving occasion, scoring 286.80.

Parra sealed his dominance with one other gold-medal efficiency on the 1-meter board, scoring 505.50 within the finals to clinch Diver of the Meet honors for the second consecutive season.

The championship concluded with a memorable second within the 400 freestyle relay. The males’s quartet of Tiki Keats, Elliot Radov, Adria Garcia Fuentes, and Yassin Hussein defeated Saint Michael’s, marking this system’s first victory over the Purple Knights within the Division II period.

The Dolphins’ season isn’t completed. CSI returns to the pool Friday, Feb. 20, for a two-day meet on the NYU Invitational, hosted on the Palladium Athletic Facility in New York, NY.