Virginia Opens the Season with a CSL Match Win

WESTMONT, Ill. — The Virginia males’s and ladies’s swim groups mixed to win a College Swimming League (CSL) match on Friday (Sept. 25) on the FMC Natatorium in Westmont, Ill.

The Cavaliers gained 15 particular person races, one relay, one Skins competitors and each Super Skins to amass 666 factors. NC State completed second with 554.5 factors. Alabama was third (263) and Georgia fourth (207.5).

CSL matches are dual-gender, with factors earned in males’s and ladies’s occasions accumulating to a single crew rating for every establishment.

Claire Curzan was named the feminine Swimmer of the Meet. Thomas Heilman was named the male Swimmer of the Meet.

Curzan gained the 100 Butterfly and 200 Backstroke occasions and took the crown within the Skins competitors. Skins occasions are elimination-style particular person races contested over 50 yards per spherical. The similar stroke is utilized in each spherical (the 50 Back was the chosen stroke for this match), with the highest finishers advancing to the subsequent spherical and the underside two eradicated. Curzan gained all 4 rounds.

The males’s and ladies’s groups each gained the Super Skins, the ultimate occasion of the meet, the place every crew swims a 4×50 Medley Relay in the identical method because the Skins competitors, with the underside two groups eradicated after every spherical.

Heilman gained the 100 and 200 Butterfly and helped the lads’s crew win their Super Skins relay.

David King gained three races: the 100 & 200 Backstroke and the 200 Freestyle.

The College Swimming League is a brand-new, dynamic league poised to revolutionize faculty swimming with high-octane, fan-focused competitors. Each of the 12 groups within the CSL competes in two regular-season matches, making an attempt to earn a spot within the four-team championship match.

Race Winners
Claire Curzan: 200 Back (1:46.85), 100 Fly (50.25)
David King: 200 Back (1:39.11), 100 Back (45.52), 200 Free (1:33.45)
Katie Grimes: 500 Free (4:38.08)
Tess Howley: 200 Fly (1:54.07)
Thomas Heilman: 200 Fly (1:40.54), 100 Fly (45.19)
Teagan O’Dell: 100 IM (52.63), 200 IM (1:54.14)
Anna Moesch: 100 Free (46.86), 200 Free (1:42.99)
Maximus Williamson: 200 IM (1:42.70)
Sara Curtis: 50 Free (21.41)
4×50 Free Relay: Curtis, Curzan, Moesch, Thompson (1:25.51)

4×50 Medley Relay Super Skins Winners
Women: Sara Curtis, Smilte Plytnykaite, Claire Curzan, Anna Moesch
Men: Spencer Nicholas, Maximus Williamson, Thomas Heilman, Davide Passafaro