Florida State Secures NCAA Qualifying Occasions in Athens

ATHENS, Ga. – The No. 13/NR Florida State swimming and diving workforce competed on the Bulldog Invitational Last Chance Meet from February 28 – March 1 at Gabrielsen Natatorium in Athens, Georgia.

Select swimmers represented the Seminoles on the two-day last-chance meet, trying to enhance season-best instances and strengthen qualifying marks for the NCAA Championships in March. Competing groups included No. 7/16 Georgia, South Carolina (males), Howard and Georgia Tech.

Senior Julia Mansson highlighted day one with an NCAA-qualifying swim of 1:00.22 within the 100 breaststroke. She later added one other NCAA minimize within the 200 breaststroke, touching in 2:10.03.

Freshman Ioana Stribu delivered an NCAA minimize within the 200 freestyle with a finals time of 1:45.30, whereas fellow freshman Lucy Porter gained the 200 breaststroke ultimate in 2:08.77, the third-fastest time in program historical past and a qualifying mark.

Continuing the breaststroke momentum, senior Tommaso Baravelli positioned second within the 100 (52.41) earlier than successful the 200 in 1:54.70 to earn one other NCAA minimize.

Sophomore Mathias Christensen posted the third-fastest 200 butterfly time in class historical past throughout a time trial (1:41.81) to safe an NCAA-qualifying mark. He adopted with a first-place end within the occasion on day two, swimming 1:41.99.

Senior Sarah Evans contributed on the backstroke facet, successful the 100 with an NCAA-qualifying 52.57.

Florida State’s males completed first total with 146 factors, forward of South Carolina (112) and No. 7 Georgia (86). The girls’s workforce positioned second with 129.5 factors.

Up subsequent, choose Seminoles will compete on the NCAA Championships in March, with the Zone Diving Championships from March 6-11 earlier than the ladies’s NCAA meet is scheduled for March 18-21 and the lads’s meet is about for March 25-28.

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