Wilkes Swimming and Diving Set for Landmark Conference Championships

Wilkes Swimming and Diving Set for Landmark Conference Championships

 

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – The Wilkes males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups are set to compete within the Landmark Conference Championships on Thursday, February 12 by means of Sunday, February 15 on the Magione Aquatic Center at Loyola University in Baltimore, Md.

Full data together with ticket data, merchandise data, full occasion schedule, group standings, outcomes, and championship polls and previews could be discovered on the Championship Central Page. The championships will probably be streamed stay on FloSports.

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The Wilkes males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving group are headed by first-year coach Arthur Wang.

The Wilkes males completed their marketing campaign with a 9-4 general file, with 4 of the wins coming towards Landmark rivals Moravian, Goucher, Juniata, and Lycoming. 

Senior Ashton Dainty (Scranton, PA/Scranton) and juniors Owen Lewis (Ellicott City, MD/Howard) and Luke Donato (Westerly, RI/Westerly) present skilled management for the Colonels. The sophomore class of Caleb Keener (Shrewsbury, PA/Susquehannock), Leo Miller (Oak Forest, IL/Oak Forest), Jacob Piotrowski (Old Bridge, NJ/Old Bridge), and Alton Smargiassi (Bloomsburg, PA/Central Columbia) provides depth and flexibility to the lineup. Rounding out the roster is a gifted first-year group that includes Maximilian Wilson (Manassas, VA/Seton), Brady Rushton (Nanticoke, PA/Greater Nanticoke Area), Joshua Robinson (Richmond, VA/St. Christopher’s), Tobias Misinay (Somerset, KY/Pulaski County), Josh Leonard (Athens, PA/Athens Area), Max Johnson (Clarksburg, MD/Clarksburg), DJ Hammond (Stone Mountain, GA/Stephenson), and Jack DeLuca (Easton, PA/Moravian Academy).

Johnson put collectively an impressive first 12 months as a Colonel, rewriting this system file guide within the distance occasions. He set new college information within the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:58.29, the 1,000-yard freestyle at 10:33.39, and the 1,650-yard freestyle with a mark of 17:28.91.

Wilkes was chosen to position sixth alongside Lycoming of the ten groups within the Coaches’ Championship Poll launched final Friday. 

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The Wilkes ladies’s group enters the postseason with a 6-7 general file, highlighted by victories over Moravian, Goucher, and Lycoming.

This 12 months’s group consists of senior Pearl Hunter (York, PA/Northeastern), juniors Brynn Ullerich (Omaha, NE/Marian) and Emma Burlew (Effort, PA/Pleasant Valley), and sophomores Izzy Sparaco (Macungie, PA/Emmaus), Meghan Sandt (Easton, PA/Easton Area), Lea McCormick (Northumberland, PA/Shikellamy), and Grace Cobb (Athens, PA/Athens Area), together with two first-years in Alyssa Rounsavile and Emma Miller (Wyoming, PA/Dallas). Miller additionally makes historical past as the primary diver in Wilkes program historical past.

As Wilkes’ first-ever diver, Miller put collectively an impressive season, incomes a number of first-place finishes within the one-meter occasions whereas additionally qualifying for the NCAA Regionals, which can happen through the Landmark Championships. 

The Colonels have been chosen to complete seventh of the ten groups within the Coaches’ Championship Poll launched final Friday.

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