Miyashita smashes 200 fly document at Battle of the Birds

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Select members of the Salisbury University girls’s and males’s swimming groups took closing goal on the nationwide leaderboards on the Battle of the Birds, a last-chance meet hosted by Catholic on Saturday afternoon at DuFour Center Pool.
 
MEET NOTES

• Libby Miyashita stole the present with a record-breaking efficiency within the 200-yard butterfly, knocking practically two seconds off her earlier finest with a time of two:03.27. The mark establishes a brand new Sea Gull program and New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) document and in addition places Miyashita above the NCAA B-cut line within the occasion, making her eligible to earn an invitation to nationals subsequent month.
• Isabelle Salvatore additionally set a brand new SU document within the 100 backstroke, touching the wall in 57.31 seconds to interrupt the mark she set final week on the NJAC Championships.
• Sadie Hebert narrowly missed the B-cut within the 1,650 freestyle however nonetheless dropped practically 12 seconds from her private finest, touching up in 17:22.45.
• Mackenzie Gula swam a 30.45-second 50 breaststroke because the SU girls’s fourth competitor on the meet.
• Mason Potts swam in two occasions on the day, bettering by a fifth of a second within the 50 fly (22.78) and testing the waters within the 1,000 free (10:42.28).
• Aidan Loehr swam a 25.87 within the 50 breast and a 52.39 within the 100 particular person medley, bettering by over a second within the latter.

 
The Sea Gulls’ prime athletes and relay groups will be taught of their NCAA Division III Championships destiny within the coming weeks, with the official psych sheet for nationals set to be printed on-line on Monday, Mar. 2, at 8 p.m.
 

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with main membership within the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, together with affiliate membership within the New Jersey Athletic Conference (soccer, males’s & girls’s swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (males’s lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (subject hockey), and Colonial Women’s Golf Conference (girls’s golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports activities, SU is acknowledged as one of many nation’s best intercollegiate athletics applications no matter division, that includes devoted coaches and employees that foster excellence on and off the sphere. The Sea Gulls have gained a mixed 23 group nationwide championships, 24 particular person nationwide championships, and 207 convention championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

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