Swimming & Diving Hosts Amherst Friday, Travels to Wesleyan on Saturday

Babson Swimming & Diving 

vs. Amherst | Friday, January 2 | 5 p.m. | Morse Pool | Babson Park, Mass. 

at Wesleyan | Saturday, January 3 | 11 a.m. | Webster Family Natatorium | Middletown, Conn. 

•    The Babson males’s and ladies’s swimming & diving squads return from break with a pair of meets inside 24 hours on Friday and Saturday. 
•    The Beavers welcome Amherst to Morse Pool on Friday for a non-scoring meet that may embrace relays and diving earlier than touring to Middletown, Conn., for a conventional twin meet in opposition to Wesleyan on Saturday. 

SERIES NOTES

•    Babson and Amherst competed for the primary time in current historical past final season in a non-scoring meet in Western Massachusetts. 

•    Last January’s meet between Babson and Wesleyan was the primary between the applications since January 16, 1993. 

2025 MEET HIGHLIGHTS

vs. Amherst

•    Junior David Krol got here in first within the 1-meter diving competitors and second on the 3-meter board, and Babson recorded 4 runner-up finishes within the males’s half of the meet and two second-place outcomes on the ladies’s aspect in opposition to the Mammoths on January 3, 2025, in Amherst, Mass. 

•    Sophomore Julia Netishen was a part of second-place showings in each the 200 medley and 3×100 backstroke relays for the Babson girls, whereas 9 totally different swimmers had been a part of a runner-up outcome for the Beaver males. 

vs. Wesleyan

•    Babson swept the Cardinals with the boys profitable 193.5-94.5 and the ladies securing a 146-144 victory on January 4 inside Morse Pool. 

•    Pat Anutarasoti ’25 got here in first in three occasions (50 free, 50 breast, 50 butterfly), Krol gained each diving occasions and sophomores Thomas Ambelang and Tommy Hannenian every contributed a person first-place end and had been a part of each of the Beavers’ victories within the relays. 

•    Anya Pelshaw M’25 (50 breast, 50 butterfly), Netishen 50 free, 100 free) and sophomore Tuana Turhan (100 butterfly, 100 IM) every recorded two wins apiece, and the quartet of Pelshaw, Netishen, junior Sylvie Racicot and sophomore Samantha Gilbert got here in first within the 400 free relay, the ultimate occasion of the meet, to assist Babson earn its first win over a NESCAC foe since 2000. 

ABOUT THE BABSON WOMEN

•    The Beavers (5-2-1) recorded 9 first-place finishes and set two college information on the way in which to profitable the four-team Fisher Invitational at Wheaton again on November 21-22. 

•    Turhan gained the 200 butterfly with a school-record time of two:06.72 and in addition touched the wall first within the 400 IM and 100 butterfly, whereas Gilbert (500 free), Netishen (100 again) and first-year Becky Hwang (200 again) all captured one particular person occasion apiece. 

•    Gilbert, Netishen and Racicot had been a part of all three relay victories on the two-day meet and the quartet of Gilbert, Racicot, Netishen and senior Sophia Sznewajs set a brand new program document with a time of 1:37.81 within the 200 free relay. 

ABOUT THE BABSON MEN

•    The Beavers (5-1) got here in first within the A ultimate of eight totally different occasions on the way in which to inserting second within the Fisher Invitational at Wheaton again on November 21-22. 

•    Junior Anthony Taslakov gained each the 200 free and 500 free, whereas Ambelang (100 again) and sophomores Nathan Huynh (100 breast), Nehemiah Rhee (200 butterfly) and Dom Crisafulli (200 IM) all posted a first-place outcome on the two-day meet. 

•    Ambelang, Huynh, Rhee and first-year Evan Hong teamed as much as win the 400 medley relay, whereas the quartet of Taslakov, sophomore William Iglar, Hannenian and Hong claimed first place within the 400 free relay. 

ABOUT AMHERST

•    The Amherst girls (4-1) have gained 4 consecutive twin meets after sweeping Coast Guard and Connecticut College again on December 5-6. 

•    The Mammoths gained all 4 relays and 15 swimming occasions in all in opposition to the Bears and Camels. 

•    The Amherst males (3-2) picked up their third straight win defeating Coast Guard 216.50-140.50 earlier than struggling a 212-148 loss to Connecticut College. 

ABOUT WESLEYAN

•    The Cardinals concluded the primary half of the season competing in opposition to Williams, Trinity and Eastern Connecticut State on the Jayden Szkirka Memorial Championship again on December 5-6. 

•    Beau Chan got here in fourth within the 200 butterfly and Jeremiah Tomioka (1650 free) and Evan Byun (100 breast) each recorded a fifth-place outcome for the Wesleyan males, who’re 0-4 in twin meet competitors. 

•    The Wesleyan girls (0-4) had been led by a pair of runner-up finishes within the diving occasions from Emma Hall, whereas Zoe Kuhn and Mia Dezelic got here in third within the 50 free and 200 again, respectively. 

RESETTING THE RECORD BOOK

•    In addition to the school-record performances by the Babson girls on the Fisher Invitational, Krol bettered his personal program mark on the 1-meter diving board at WPI’s Gompei Invitational on December 7. 

•    His rating of 397.50 shattered his earlier six-dive rating of 348.60 set final February. 

TOP TIMES

•    Including the 2 college information, the Beavers achieved eight top-five particular person instances on the Fisher Invitational. 

•    Gilbert is second within the girls’s 500 free (5:16.39), Turhan is third within the 400 IM (4:42.76) and Hwang is fourth within the 200 backstroke (2:10.90). 

•    On the boys’s aspect, Huynh is third within the 100 breast (56.55) and fifth within the 200 breast (2:06.70), whereas first-year Matthias McFarlane is fourth within the 100 breast (56.63).

UP NEXT

•    The Beavers, who will journey to Florida for his or her winter coaching journey subsequent week, return to competitors on January 24 after they host Bridgewater State.