Swim & Dive Championship Underway in Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Colgate University males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups opened competitors on the Patriot League Championships on Wednesday night inside Lejeune Hall, hosted by Navy. 

The opening day featured relay occasions and males’s diving, setting the tone for a aggressive four-day championship. Colgate ladies are tied for sixth with 94 factors, matching Boston University’s complete by means of the opening day of motion. Colgate’s males’s workforce is in tenth with 91 factors. 

On the ladies’s aspect, Colgate earned a powerful exhibiting within the 200-yard medley relay, ending eighth general. The quartet of Allie Phillips, Regan Hau, Audrey Collins, and Heather O’Day touched the wall in 1:43.11, incomes useful early factors for the Raiders.

The Colgate ladies continued to construct momentum within the 800-yard freestyle relay, putting fifth with a time of seven:22.88. The relay workforce of Elizabeth Rainey, MG King, Katie Miller, and Paige Fisher posted a constant efficiency in opposition to a deep Patriot League subject, serving to Colgate stay firmly in the midst of the workforce standings after day one.

On the boys’s aspect, Colgate opened the championships within the 200-yard medley relay, ending tenth with a time of 1:32.34. The relay squad consisted of Zack Berner, Connor O’Neill, Matt Freund, and Jack Lira, gaining useful championship expertise in a fast-paced ultimate.

The Raiders’ males closed the night with the 800-yard freestyle relay, the place Colgate positioned eighth general in 6:39.75. The workforce of Matthew Szypula, David Brophy, Jack Lira, and Michael Granin shattered this system document (6:54.97) to cap the night time’s swimming occasions.

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Competition resumes Thursday with a full slate of preliminary and ultimate occasions as Colgate seems to construct on its opening-day performances.