Swim Opens Season with Dominant Win

FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Ave Maria Swim group opened their 2025-26 season Friday by internet hosting a twin meet with convention foe New College of Florida. Ave Maria dominated the meet with each the women and men beating the Mighty Banyans. The Gyrenes broke six faculty information throughout the meet and recorded 52 new private bests throughout the entire group.

Freshman Mimi Estrada set the primary two faculty information within the opening occasion of the meet. During the 100-yard butterfly, Estrada beat the mark for each the quickest time throughout all 100 yards, touching the pad at 59.09, and the quickest 50-yard break up, swimming the primary half of the race in simply 27.61 seconds.

The males additionally set a college report within the 100-yard butterfly, with freshman John Keyser swimming the quickest 50-yard break up in 24.37 seconds. Keyser was unable to set the report for the quickest time in all 100-yards however was simply two seconds behind the mark.

Keyser set one other break up report for the Gyrenes within the 100-yard breaststroke. In his first 50 yards, the freshman clocked in at 24.48 seconds. Madeline Lasnoski set the identical report on the ladies’s facet, swimming her first 50 yards of the again stroke within the 33.64 seconds.

The remaining damaged faculty report of the day got here within the penultimate occasion of the meet, the boys’s 100-yard particular person medley. This time, it was the complete race report that was damaged, and Keyser was as soon as once more the perpetrator. In the occasion that mashes up all 4 totally different strokes, Keyser completed the race in 54.82 seconds. He beat the earlier report, which was set by Eli Pelzer in 2023, by virtually a full second. Sam Pilkington additionally beat the mark set by Pelzer almost two years to the day earlier however was only a half-second behind Keyser at 55.38.

Outside of the varsity information, 52 private bests had been set within the season opener. The girls set 27 particular person highs whereas the boys had 25.

As a group, the Gyrenes received eight of the 9 of the 11 occasions within the meet, with the boys doing a clear sweep of their 5 occasions. The two groups additionally competed in a blended relay to finish the meet, with the Gyrenes profitable that race too.

In the ultimate level totals, the boys’s group beat New College 743-29 and the ladies’s group received 658-101.

Ave Maria’s subsequent meet is October 25 as they head as much as Georgia to compete in a tri-meet towards former Sun Conference opponent Thomas and NCAA Division II West Florida.