Knight Earns Runner-Up On Platform, Swimming Will get Underway At ACC Championships

ATLANTA, Ga. – University of North Carolina diver Sofia Knight podiumed for the second-straight day, Ciro Mejia earned fourth on the platform, and swimming bought underway on the ACC Championships on Tuesday. Knight claimed her third profession top-three end on the league meet by ending because the runner-up on the platform.

Knight completed off a stellar ACC Championships that noticed her end third on the 1-meter, sixth on the 3-meter after which the second-place end on platform. Her three performances have been price 79 factors complete to the staff rating.

Mejia, who lately set the college report on the platform, carried out admirably in his first ACC Championship. He scored a 364.40 to simply narrowly miss the rostrum.

The swimming portion of this system began this night as nicely and the ladies’s 200 medley relay produced. The staff of Sophia Frei, Samantha Armand, Kamryn Meskill and Eden Goettsch posted a 1:35.99 to complete seventh. Their time was adequate to safe an automated NCAA qualifier.

The males’s 800 free relay of Louis Dramm, David Quaresma, Sebastian Lunak and Julian Swiderski positioned eleventh, however their time of 6:15.81 earned a provisional NCAA qualifier.

The swimmers will likely be again in motion on Wednesday with prelims getting underway at 9:30 a.m. and finals at 5:30 p.m.

ACC Championships Day 3

 
Women 200 Medley Relay
7. UNC (S. Frei, S. Armand, Ok. Meskill, E. Goettsch), 1:35.99 (NCAA Qualifier)
 
Men 200 Medley Relay
— UNC, DQ
 
Women 800 Freestyle Relay
9. UNC (M. Conze, M. Macaulay, L. Reader, T. Murrillo), 7:06.38
 
Men 800 Freestyle Relay
11. UNC (L. Dramm, D. Quaresma, S. Lunak, J. Swiderski), 6:15.81 (NCAA Provisional)
 
Women Platform Final
2. Sofia Knight, 324.80 (NCAA Standard)
 
Women Platform Prelim
4. Sofia Knight, 273.20 (NCAA Standard)
 
Men Platform Final
4. Ciro Mejia, 364.30 (NCAA Standard)
 
Men Platform Prelim
6. Ciro Mejia, 341.85 (NCAA Standard)
13. Carter Loftin, 301.00 (NCAA Standard)
24. Chris Booler, 262.15
27. Rodolfo Vazquez, 240.65
 

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