Staff White Wins Intrasquad Meet

THE FLATS – The Georgia Tech swimming and diving groups hosted its annual white versus gold intrasquad meet with the white staff edging out a 351-315 victory on Friday afternoon.

The day started with a brand new intrasquad document within the 200 medley relay. Freshman James Sorensen swam the opening 50 again break up at 22.67 earlier than Tobin Uhl delivered a 25.31 breaststroke break up. Junior switch Leo Verschooten swam the 50 fly leg at 20.86 earlier than Stephen Jones closed out the race with a 20.45 free break up.

The squad clocked in at 1:29.29, 5 hundredths of a second forward of the occasion document set again in 2021. Verschooten continued his prolific debut for Tech as he secured the quickest 50 free time at 20.46, 5 hundredths of a second quicker than Andrew Kosic’s mark set in 2014.

Verschooten’s record-breaking efforts scored extra factors for the white staff, constructing on its lead set from sweeping all 4 relay races. The white staff was robust within the freestyle races, successful six of eight occasions and claiming three of 4 butterfly races. The gold staff discovered success within the backstroke and breaststroke races, successful seven of the eight occasions.

The white staff earned 17 occasion wins with the gold staff securing 13 race victories. The gold staff pulled out a decent 473.5-457.05 victory within the opening diving portion. Eight completely different swimmers recorded a number of race wins, freshman Meriç Uygun main the best way with race victories within the 200 IM, 100 again, and 200 breast.

Georgia Tech will take part within the Atlanta Open Water Swim on Saturday morning as a part of the Swim Across America charity sequence at Lake Lanier Olympic Park. The Jackets will return house on Saturday, September 26, in its dual-meet opener towards Emory at 11 a.m.

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to realize Georgia Tech athletics’ objective of competing for championships on the highest stage within the subsequent period of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative tasks for Tech athletics, together with renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic house of Georgia Tech soccer), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the apply and coaching facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable house of Yellow Jackets volleyball), in addition to extra tasks and initiatives to additional advance Georgia Tech athletics by program wide-operational assist. All members of the Georgia Tech group are invited to go to atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full particulars and renderings of the renovation tasks, in addition to to find out about alternatives to contribute on-line.

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