Swimming & Diving Hosts Georgia Tech in Saturday Twin Meet

The Emory University swimming & diving groups have been again within the pool Saturday afternoon, internet hosting crosstown foe Georgia Tech in twin meet motion on the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center in Atlanta.

Competing towards their Division I counterparts, the Eagles held their very own with Emory athletes amassing a complete of 5 occasion wins on the afternoon and turned in a pair of NCAA B Cut instances. The Yellow Jackets secured wins on each ends of meet with the ladies recording a 185.5-111.5 end result and the lads defeating the Eagles, 218-81.

For the Emory girls, sophomore Elodie Mitchell was a standout performer as soon as once more as she seized two of the crew’s wins on the afternoon. Mitchell lowered her season-best time within the 200 Fly for the win, touching with a NCAA qualifying mark of two:02.01, earlier than dominating within the 500 Freestyle, profitable by shut to 5 seconds at 5:03.28.

The Eagles added two occasion wins on the ladies’s slate with senior Morgan Main main the 1000 Freestyle subject with time of 10:36.18 and within the 400 IM, classmate Meredith Liu threw down a 4:32.24 for the win.

Junior Hayden Tupper was one of many headliners for the Emory males within the pool on Saturday as he secured the lone occasion win together with his main time within the 100 Freestyle, touching first at 46.02. Additionally, classmate McKee Thorsen registered the lads’s first NCAA B Cut of the season together with his mark of 1:48.80 within the 200 Fly, narrowly coming in second by .09 seconds in a wire-to-wire battle.

To go together with the crew’s 4 wins, the ladies’s crew noticed second place finishes turned in by Liu within the 1000 Free (10:42.45), sophomore Maddy Lu within the 100 Breaststroke (1:06.04), junior Emma Lunn within the 200 Backstroke (2:03.88), sophomore Allison Greeneway within the 100 Fly (56.11) and the 200 Freestyle Relay crew of Greeneway, sophomores Caitlin Crysel, Stephanie Lee and senior Ava Kennedy (1:35.48).

On the lads’s aspect, the Eagles had runner-up efforts turned in by sophomore Zachary Spicer within the 100 Backstroke (50.98), senior Henri Bonnault within the 100 Breaststoke (56.05) and Thorsen within the 100 Fly (49.07). Spicer and Bonnault additionally led a complete of seven third place finishes as Spicer touched at 1:53.39 within the 200 Backstroke and Bonnault completed at 2:07.58 within the 200 Breaststroke.

Thorsen aided within the relay efforts in addition to he was a part of Emory’s A groups that completed third in each the 400 Medley and 200 Freestyle. Thorsen, Bonnault, Tupper and sophomore Colin Zexter mixed for a mark of three:18.35 within the 400 Medley and within the 200 Freestyle, Thorsen and Tupper teamed with sophomore Connor McHugh and freshman Fred Brown for time of 1:23.78.

For diving occasions, reigning UAA Athletes of the Week graduate pupil Ariana Khan and sophomore Solly Berkenwald paced the Eagles with Khan taking fourth in each occasions and Berkenwald ending inside the highest three for the lads. Khan scored 252.60 on the 1-meter adopted by 259.58 on the 3-meter. Berkenwald began his day with a 320.78 rating on the 3-meter earlier than notching 323.55 on the 1-meter.

Emory shall be off subsequent weekend earlier than touring to Sewanee, Tennessee to tackle the Sewanee Tigers in additional twin motion on Saturday, October 25^th.