Carrico Punches Ticket To NCAA Championships

HAMPTON, Va. – Junior William Carrico punched his ticket to the NCAA Championships with a record-setting efficiency within the males’s 200 IM on Thursday on the Coastal Athletic Association championships on the Hampton Aquaplex.

UNCW leads the boys’s meet with 292.5 factors whereas the ladies are second with 493.

Carrico, who posted a number of NCAA B lower instances throughout his profession, captured the race with a time of 1:42.09, setting convention, convention championship and UNCW program information. His time additionally lifted him into twelfth nationally.

In the ladies’s 200 IM race, Gil Shaw, a senior, touched the wall in a time of two:00.84 to win gold for the Seahawks.

Senior sprinter Cameron Snowden defended her title within the 50 Free with a time of twenty-two.39 seconds.

Makenna Sharpe paced the Seahawks within the girls’s 3-meter board with a silver medal, with a rating of 284.10 factors. She earned bronze as a junior.

The Seahawk girls added one other gold on the night with a win within the girls’s 400 Medley Relay. Maeren McGonigal, Shaw, Snowden and Alex Tysinger topped the sector with a time of three:35.53. The Seahawks have been in second place going into Snowden’s swim, however the senior worn out the deficit and handed Tysinger the lead. The freshman held that result in the top when she touched the wall first.

Remaining medal winners for the Seahawks: 500 Free: Wilson Tuttle, third; 200 IM: Maeren McGonigal, third; 200 IM: Ian Frazer, third; Men’s 400 Medley Relay, third.

The third day of the championships begins on Friday with the preliminaries at 9:30 a.m.