Team Gold Wins Blue/Gold Intrasquad Meet

FAIRBANKS – The Nanooks swimming staff kicked off its season on Friday afternoon with its annual Blue/Gold Intrasquad meet on the Patty Center Pool. Team Gold claimed the 123-86 victory, successful eight of the 13 occasions on the day.

The meet started with a 200-yard medley relay, the place the staff of Monica Botha, Dorka Dancsok, Marilia Persidou and Sam Bristor grabbed the win for Gold, ending the occasion in 1:51.70. Gold notched one other win within the 200-yard freestyle, with Botha posting a 2:00.78 to position first. However, Blue would declare the highest spot within the subsequent two occasions: the 50-yard backstroke and 50-yard breaststroke, with Kitti Marton (29.87) and Mayumi Schaetzle (33.84) claiming gold in each respective occasions. Dancsok obtained Team Gold again within the win column with a first-place end within the 100-yard butterfly, posting a 59.77, and Mariia Sirotinskaia added one other victory for Gold with a 26.05 within the 50-yard freestyle.

Cosima Schmiedel secured first place for Team Blue within the 100-yard freestyle (55.03), whereas Botha claimed her second particular person victory of the afternoon within the 100-yard backstroke (1:02.60). Schmiedel adopted by securing her second win of the meet within the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:13.85, and Zsófia Varga answered with a win within the 500-yard freestyle for Team Gold (5:26.04). MacKenzie O’Keefe took first within the 50-yard butterfly with a 28.77, and Persidou received the 200-yard IM with a 2:18.36.

The meet concluded with the 200-yard freestyle relay, the place Gold as soon as once more got here out on high, as Sariah Rodgers, Zsófia Varga, Mariia Sirotinskaia and Monica Botha positioned first with a 1:46.01.

The Nanooks are again within the pool tomorrow for his or her Alumni Meet, beginning at 10 a.m. within the Patty Center Pool.

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