Swimming and Diving Ship 10 Gyrenes to Nationals

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In simply their third ever National Championship look, the Ave Maria Swimming and Diving group is sending 10 Gyrenes to Elkhart, Indiana, to compete within the NAIA National Championships. Ten athletes are essentially the most Ave Maria has ever despatched to the National Championships.

On the ladies’s aspect, Gabby Darakchieva, Mimi Estrada, Kristyna Kubisova and Delaney Weisbruch will characterize the Gyrenes.

Darakchieva will compete within the 100-yard backstroke, qualifying with a time of 58.89 seconds. Both the preliminaries and finals for the backstroke are on Friday, March 6.

Estrada will compete within the 100-yard butterfly, qualifying with a time of 58.30 seconds. Just just like the backstroke, the preliminaries and finals are on Friday, March 6.

Kubisova will likely be competing in two occasions, qualifying for each the 1-meter and 3-meter springboard. The 3-meter preliminaries and finals are one of many first occasions within the championships, competing Thursday, March 5, whereas the 1-meter preliminaries and finals are Saturday, March 7.

Weisbruch rounds out the group with two occasions as effectively, competing within the 400-yard particular person medley and the 200-yard butterfly. The sophomore certified for the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:45.99 and the 200-yard butterfly with a time of two:11.78. The preliminaries and finals for the 400-yard particular person medley are Friday, March 6, whereas the 200-yard butterfly’s preliminaries and finals are Saturday, March 7.

On the lads’s aspect, Michael Blawas, Elijah Brown, Jack Keyser, Sam Pilkington, Eli Soderberg and Lucas Thomaz will characterize the Gyrenes in Indiana.

Blawas will compete within the 200-yard butterfly, qualifying with a time of 1:51.41. The preliminaries and finals are Saturday, March 7.

Brown is competing in two occasions for the Gyrenes, the 400-yard particular person medley and the 200-yard backstroke. Brown certified for the 400-yard IM with a time of 4:04.62 and the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 1:52.36. The preliminaries and finals for the 400-yard particular person medley are Friday, March 6, whereas the 200-yard backstroke’s preliminaries and finals are Saturday, March 7.

Keyser is swimming within the 200-yard particular person medley, qualifying with a time of 1:52.24. The preliminaries and finals are Thursday, March 5.

Pilkington certified for the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 54.23. He is the best seeded Gyrene among the many bunch, coming in with the fourth-highest qualifying time in a pool of 20 swimmers and is simply 1.28 seconds behind the chief. The preliminaries and finals are Friday, March 6.

Soderberg will likely be swimming in two occasions, each shared by different Gyrenes. The freshman will likely be becoming a member of Blawas within the 200-yard butterfly with a qualifying with a time of 1:53.02, which was the final time to make the minimize, and becoming a member of Brown within the 400-yard particular person medley with a qualifying time of 4:06.22.

Thomaz is the ultimate swimmer to compete for the Gyrenes, racing within the 100-yard butterfly. Thomaz certified with a time of 49.91 seconds. The preliminaries and finals are Friday, March 6.

Two extra Gyrenes are making the journey as much as the Hoosier State as Matt Ondracek and Zia Schwab are alternates.

The motion in Elkhart begins Wednesday March 4, with the primary Gyrene competing March 5. All 4 days of competitors will likely be streamed reside on the Urban Edge Network.