Two New Program Information Set on Day 1 of Season-Opening Twin vs. Oakland

Youngstown, Ohio – The Youngstown State males’s and girls’s swimming and diving applications kicked off their 2025-26 campaigns contained in the Beeghly Natatorium on Friday afternoon.

The divers started Friday’s festivities, and the Penguins began off with a bang as they swept victories in each the ladies’s three-meter dive and males’s one-meter dive occasions. Freshman Rafael Serey-Cormier set a brand new program report in his first collegiate competitors as he gained the boys’s one-meter dive with a rating of 305.70. Zachary Lao positioned second with a rating of 275.93. Hanna Held gained the ladies’s three-meter dive with a rating of 266.40.

The Penguins males began scorching with the primary swimming occasion of the day, because the 200-medley relay crew of Quinn Cynor, Adrian Andres-Moreno, Jacob Gramer, and Noah Smith positioned first with a time of 1:28.39, simply edging out Oakland’s quickest relay workforce by four-tenths of a second. YSU’s quickest feminine 200-medley relay squad of Lara Lilic, Hannah Murray, Ximena Young, and Chloe Moore, all newcomers, completed runner-up with a time of 1:46.97.

Derin Donmez firmly started her Penguins profession with a victory within the 1650 free with a time of 17:08.97, just below 5 seconds faster than the second-place finisher. Olivia Sweetman positioned third within the occasion with a time of 17:20.73. Poyraz San Askin positioned second within the males’s 1650 free with a time of 15:47.63.

YSU swept victories within the 200 free, together with one other new report being set. Quinn Cynor rewrote the boys’s report guide with a time of 1:36.48 on his option to a victory. Olivia Sweetman positioned first within the ladies’s race with a time of 1:52.34, beating the second-place finisher from Oakland by just below two-tenths of a second.

The Penguins additionally swept victories within the 200 butterfly occasions as properly. YSU went one-two within the ladies’s race, as Orla Maccines secured her first particular person occasion victory as a Penguin with a time of two:04.55, whereas Allison Ramirez Romero completed runner-up with a time of two:08.08. Valer Kennedy gained his first collegiate race for the boys as he clocked a time of 1:48.90.

Maccines additionally gained the 100 butterfly for the ladies, ending in 56.21, whereas her teammate Allison Ramirez Romero positioned third with a time of 57.51. Valer Kennedy positioned third within the males’s 100 butterfly with a time of 49.33.

Hannah Murray gained her first particular person race as a Penguin within the 100 breaststroke, clocking a time of 1:03.89. James Slessor positioned second within the males’s 100 breaststroke occasion, ending with a time of 55.50.

Murray would additionally go on to win the ladies’s 200 IM with a time of two:04.75.

Chloe Moore gained the ladies’s 50 free with a time of 24.03, whereas the YSU males positioned second and third of their occasion, with Jacob Gramer putting second with a time of 20.58 and Reid Withey putting third with a time of 20.88.

The Penguins had robust showings in each the boys’s and girls’s 500 free occasions. Olivia Sweetman gained the ladies’s part with a time of 5:01.41 whereas her teammate Derin Donmez positioned third, clocking a time of 5:03.26. Poyraz San Askin led the Penguins males with a runner-up end, clocking a time of 4:40.01, whereas Seif Elbatal positioned third with a time of 4:41.17.

Chloe Moore positioned second for the Penguins ladies within the 100 free as she clocked a time of 52.21, whereas Quinn Cynor additionally completed runner-up for the boys within the 100 free, swimming a time of 44.74.

In the 200 breaststroke occasions, Hannah Murray completed runner-up for the YSU ladies with a time of two:19.36, whereas Dominic Panozzo completed third for the YSU males with a time of two:04.95.

Both the Penguins women and men corralled third-place finishes within the 100 backstroke occasions, as Lara Lilic positioned third for the ladies with a time of 59.12, and Elliot Elmore clocked a time of 49.44 within the males’s race, additionally putting third.

To wrap up the night time, the Penguins male 400-free relay squad of Quinn Cynor, Noah Smith, Lorenz Beck, and Jacob Gramer gained with a time of two:59.80, simply two-hundredths of a second sooner than Oakland’s second-place squad, whereas on the ladies’s aspect, the crew of Olivia Sweetman, Chloe Moore, Orla Maccines, and Ximena Young completed third with a time of three:30.27.

Overall, Oakland’s ladies defeated YSU by a rating of 150-130, and the Oakland males defeated the Penguins’ males by a rating of 167-114.

Both faculties will battle once more tomorrow at 10 a.m. inside Beeghly Natatorium.

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