Girls’s swimming and diving staff finishes season as NCAA nationwide runners-up

The Emory girls’s swimming and diving staff concluded the season as nationwide runners-up within the NCAA Division III Championships on Saturday, March 21, in Indianapolis.

The Eagles ended the four-day meet with 433.5 factors on the energy of two nationwide championships, two program data, 19 First Team All-America efforts and 11 Second Team All-America finishes.

On the primary day of the event, the Eagles earned silver within the 400 Medley Relay, with the staff of senior Penny Celtnieks, junior Katie Cohen, sophomore Allison Greeneway and graduate pupil Sammi Thiele marking a time of three:41.42.

That identical night time, a trio of Eagles positioned inside the highest 9 within the 200 Individual Medley. Thiele took bronze at 2:01.25, Greeneway joined the rostrum in sixth place at 2:02.42, and sophomore Caitlin Crysel was the comfort ultimate winner as she completed ninth with a finals time of two:03.18.

Graduate pupil Ava Kennedy registered one other bronze medal effort for the Eagles throughout night time one as she posted a time of twenty-two.86 within the championship warmth of the 50 Freestyle.

On night time two, the Eagles have been headlined by a trio of divers who reached the finals of the 1-meter occasion. Graduate pupil Ariana Khan led the three Emory performers on the board together with her fourth-place effort and a finals mark of 430.30. Sophomore Maya Kriz secured her first-ever All-America honor with a sixth-place end at 4:20.10, and senior Ren Watt notched eighth place with a rating of 410.70.

In addition to the Emory divers, junior Natalie Boorjian led the Eagles within the swimming occasions with a 200 Freestyle seventh-place end with a time of 1:51.26. In the 200 Freestyle Relay, Kennedy, Crysel, Celtnieks and Thiele got here in sixth with a mixed time of 1:32.62.

Friday, March 20, marked the staff’s first nationwide championship of the meet when the 200 Medley Relay claimed victory with a time of 1:39.75. The staff consisted of Celtnieks, Cohen, Greeneway and Kennedy.

Celtnieks and Cohen every earned nationwide runner-up titles that night time as properly. Celtnieks went for a 54.29 to assert second place within the 100 Backstroke, simply 0.1 off the chief. In the 100 Breaststroke, Cohen smashed a 15-year-old Emory program report together with her finals mark of 1:01.26, incomes her silver.

On Saturday, the ultimate day of the event, junior Emma Lunn closed her stellar debut season carrying a gold cap as she claimed the nationwide championship within the 200 Backstroke with a successful time of 1:58.83.

In the 200 Breaststroke, Cohen continued to rewrite the Emory report books as she recorded her second program report of the meet together with her nationwide runner-up effort with a time of two:11.80 to smash the five-year-old Emory report by greater than three seconds.

The Eagles’ nationwide runner-up efficiency is the staff’s third prior to now 5 nationwide meets, and the twenty third top-five staff end throughout the earlier 24 NCAA Championships.

Read extra in-depth coverage from the women’s tournament on the Emory Athletics website.

Men’s swimming and diving staff finishes fifth

The males’s swimming and diving staff completed fifth on the finish of the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis. Across the event, the staff totaled 12 First Team All-America performances and 13 Second Team All-America nods.

On the primary night time of the competitors, sophomore Ben Pritchard positioned sixth within the 500 Freestyle with a finals mark of 4:26.86, the primary podium end of his profession. In that night’s ultimate occasion, Emory earned a third-place end within the 400 Medley Relay because the group of first-year McKee Thorsen, junior Hayden Tupper, sophomore Zachary Spicer and senior Henri Bonnault mixed for a mark of three:11.55.

Graduate pupil Crow Thorsen was the staff’s high performer on night time two, incomes a First Team All-America recognition with an eighth-place end within the 400 Individual Medley with a time of three:53.42.

McKee and Bonnault every claimed silver medals on day three, with McKee ending the 200 Fly in 1:45.42 and Bonnault registering a mark of 52.71 within the 100 Breaststroke. Bonnault returned to the rostrum together with Colin Zexter, Patrick Horton and Connor McHugh, taking fourth within the 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:27.17. In the 800 Freestyle, Hayden Tupper, Sven Becker, Graham Zucker and Crow took sixth place, ending in 6:33.84.

The ultimate night time of the event noticed Pritchard acquire his second All-America honor of the week, coming in fourth place within the 1,650 Freestyle with a time of 15:29.06.

Additionally, Spicer and Bonnault added to Emory’s level whole with their particular person performances, with Spicer taking 14th within the 200 Backstroke at 1:47.19 and Bonnault going for 1:59.87 within the 200 Breaststroke to put twelfth.

In the ultimate occasion of the season, graduate pupil Jared Zhang, Crow, McKee and Tupper led the Eagles to an Eleventh-place end within the 400 Freestyle Relay with a time of two:58.61.

The males’s swimming and diving staff’s fifth-place end marks the twenty fifth consecutive season inside the highest 5 on the NCAA Championships.

Read extra in-depth coverage from the men’s tournament on the Emory Athletics website.

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