Swimming & Diving Travels For Meet With Colgate & Boston University

FAIRFIELD, Conn. – The Fairfield University swimming and diving groups will return to the pool this weekend with a tri-meet in opposition to Boston University and host Colgate University. The three groups will compete in Hamilton, N.Y. on Saturday, January 10. The meet is scheduled for a 1 pm begin.

The Stags are conversant in Boston University after spending three days at its campus in late November with Fairfield being one in every of eight groups on the Terrier Invitational. Fairfield obtained sturdy performances from freshman Natasha De Pree and sophomore  Balazs Ament. Both student-athletes earned the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Swimmer of the Week award whereas De Pree tacked on her third Rookie of the Week accolade.

De Pree earned three particular person wins whereas additionally collaborating in a number of relays over the three-day occasion. She began the Invitational with a win within the 500 yard freestyle (4:50.45) along with posting the most effective time within the 200 yard freestyle (1:50.11) and the 1650 yard freestyle (16:44.48).

Ament additionally participated a number of relay races along with taking high honors within the 100 breaststroke (54.48) and the 200 yard breaststroke (1:59.77), earlier than ending with a fourth-place swim within the B last of the 200 IM (1:52.24). The weekly MAAC honor was his first of the season.

Fairfield returns to group competitors for the primary time since touring to Fordham University on November 1. The girls’s group seems to enhance on its 2-2 general file  whereas the boys’s squad places its unbeaten 4-0 mark on the road.

Boston University can also be returning to competitors for the primary time since internet hosting the Terrier Invitational and is swimming outdoors an invitational format for the primary time since taking up UMass on November 8. Both the ladies’s group brings a 2-3 general file into the weekend after each dropped a choice to UMass.

Colgate University will take to the water for the primary time since November as nicely with each groups swimming for the primary time since welcoming Marist University to campus. The girls’s group has posted a win in 4 of its 5 meets this 12 months whereas the boys’s squad brings a 1-4 mark by the primary half of the marketing campaign.

Following its journey to Hamilton, N.Y., Fairfield will return for its last residence meet of the season when it hosts Iona University on Saturday, January 17. The males’s and girls’s packages will honor their senior class in between the diving and swimming parts of the meet.