Swim and Dive Preps for MAC Championships, Wednesday-Saturday

YPSILANTI, Mich. (EMUEagles.com) – The Eastern Michigan University swim and dive groups will compete on the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Championships, hosted by the University of Akron, on the Oliver J. Ocasek Natatorium in Akron, Ohio, Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 25-28.

The schedule of occasions and ESPN+ stay watch hyperlinks for every day may be accessed on the swim and dive schedule web page right here.

Fans can keep tuned to EMUEagles.com for a post-meet recap with full outcomes hooked up. Also, keep tuned to the staff’s social media accounts on Instagram, X, and Facebook for stay in-meet content material.

EMU at MACs

Eastern has captured two MAC crowns in its historical past, coming in consecutive seasons in 2006 and 2007, below former head coach Peter Linn.

The Eagles took dwelling the 2006 MAC title, its first MAC Championship, besting second-place finisher, the University of Miami, by 11 factors. Eastern ended the meet scoring 637.5 factors with seven All-MAC honorees (two first staff alternatives and 5 second staff nods). Linn was named the MAC Swimming Coach of the Year whereas former diving coach Buck Smith was named Diving Coach of the Year. One of essentially the most adorned swimmers in Eagles’ historical past, Madeline Pilchard was tabbed Swimmer of the Year by the convention.

Pilchard raked in three particular person MAC titles within the meet, successful the 100y freestyle (50.48), 200y freestyle (1:48.74), and 500y freestyle (4:51.99). She additionally swam the anchor leg of EMU’s first-place 400y freestyle staff, a race the Eagles swam in 3:24.97.

The Eagles repeated as champs within the 2007 season, scoring 665 factors to edge second-place Ohio University (618 factors) by a margin of 47 factors inside Eastern’s Jones Natatorium.

Pilchard received swimmer of the 12 months for the second consecutive season and Sarah Chrzanowski earned the Diver of the Year Award together with her first-place end within the 1m dive (293.60 factors). Eastern noticed 9 people named to All-MAC groups (4 to first staff and 5 to second staff), whereas claiming gold in eight occasions all through the meet.

Last time at MACs

The Eagles completed seventh as a staff with 215 factors ultimately 12 months’s MAC Championships, Feb. 26-March 1. They had been highlighted by Megan Lupa (Campden, Ontario/West Niagara Secondary), who earned MAC Freshman Diver of the Year, inserting seventh within the 3m dive closing with 255.75 factors, and fifteenth within the 1m dive finals, scoring 226.95 factors. On the fourth and closing day of the meet, Eastern scored 73 factors, making it their most profitable day. The swimmers noticed three program prime 10 instances on the third day of the championships, as Tristen Mina (Santa Clara, Calif./The King’s Academy) and Olivia Clarino teamed as much as swim the No. 5 (54.59) and No. 7 (55.08) 100y butterfly program instances, respectively, earlier than Nina LaRosa (Bay Village, Ohio/Bay) improved her program prime 10 100y breaststroke time from No. 8 to No. 7, as she positioned ninth within the finals in 1:02.62.

EMU at MACs Under Perkins

Eastern’s highest end on the MAC Championships below Derek Perkins got here in his first season when the Eagles positioned third with 485 factors. His Eagles positioned fifth within the 2021-22 season (354 factors), and completed sixth in 2020-21 (305 factors), 2022-23 (302 factors), and 2023-24 (273 factors).

 

Last Time Out Highlights

The Eagles final competed towards Ball State University inside Jones Natatorium, Jan. 24, leading to a lack of 133.5 factors to Ball State’s 166.5 factors. Eastern received three occasions within the pool, two of which got here from LaRosa, as she swam the 100y breaststroke in 1:02.61 for first place, together with taking first within the 200y breaststroke in 2:20.02. The third occasion win got here from Mina, as she took first place within the 100y butterfly with a time of 55.31. Mina was adopted by Abbey Clarke (Caledon, Ontario/Robert F. Hall), who completed in second place with a time of 56.43, and Nehir Guven (Istanbul, Turkey/Istek Atanur Oguz Okullari), who earned third with a private finest time of 56.53 to comb the race.

The divers swept each occasions, incomes the highest 4 scores in every. Rose Kendrick (Geneva, N.Y./Geneva) received each occasions with a private finest rating of 280.88 factors within the one-meter, and one other private finest rating of 295.13 factors within the three-meter. Marnie Howard (Bloomington, Ill./Normal Community West) took second place within the one-meter with 236.78 factors, adopted by Taityn Speier (Fairfax, Va./WT Woodson), who earned third with 234.75 factors, and Aisling Gutierrez (New Kent, Va./New Kent), who scored 231.83 factors to take fourth place. In the three-meter, Kendrick was adopted by Speier with 252.15 factors for second place, Gutierrez earned third with 249.83 factors, and Howard closed the sweep with 231.75 factors for fourth place.

Up Next

Qualified divers will transfer on to the NCAA Zone C Diving Championships, hosted by Eastern Michigan, inside Jones Natatorium, Monday-Wednesday, March September 11. Select swimmers will compete on the CSCAA NICs, hosted by the CSCAA, in Ocala, Fla., Thursday-Saturday, March 12-14.

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