Women’s Swimming & Diving Hosts Richmond at The St. James

Friday, November 30

The St. James - Springfield, VA

5 PM

George Washington University

Richmond

11/28/2018 10:40:00 AM | Women's Swimming and Diving

Colonials face A-10 foe in Springfield, Va.

(Note: The location of this event has been updated.)

George Washington women's swimming and diving will face off against Richmond on Friday to close its fall schedule.

The swimming portion of the meet will be held at The St. James in Springfield, Va., with the action beginning at 5 p.m. It's the first collegiate meet to be held at the 450,000-square foot sports and entertainment complex, which opened in September. The two diving events will be held at Smith Center Pool at the same time on Friday.

LAST TIME OUT: GW took second-place at the Queens University Fall Frenzy in North Carolina behind the host Royals, who have won four straight Division II national titles.

Jackie Torrez paced the Colonials with wins in the 400-yard individual medley and 200-yard butterfly, while Emily Zhang picked up three individual second-place finishes (200 IM, 200 free, 100 free).

Andrea Moussier was honored as Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week for the third time, highlighted by a strong collegiate debut in the 1,650 free. She touched in 16:47.23, a time which ranks fourth on the program's all-time list.

Moussier also recorded GW all-time top-10 times in the 400 IM (4:24.69, fourth), 500-yard freestyle (4:55.80, sixth) and 200-yard backstroke (2:03.86, sixth) over three days of racing.

ALL-TIME EFFORTS: In all, GW produced 20 new entries in its all-time top 10 list in its last meet. Meghan Burton, a sophomore transfer, added new marks for the 200 back (fourth), 50 free (fifth), 100 back (sixth) and 100 fly (seventh), while first-year Isabela Patino also made the list in four events with the 200 fly (fifth), 100 fly (eighth), 200 IM (eighth) and 100 free (ninth).

First-years Rebecca Smolcic (50 free, 100 free, 100 back), Grace Olivardia (50 free, 100 back) and Courtney Sicinski (200 breast) also established new entries with career-best efforts. Lucy Castro (200 back) and Andrea Ho (200 fly) were responsible for the other two marks.

SCOUTING RICHMOND: The Spiders had a run of seven straight A-10 titles ended in 2018 with a second-place finish at the conference championships behind Duquesne. Most recently, Richmond placed sixth out of nine teams at George Mason's Patriot Invite.

Last season, GW claimed a 165-135 victory over Richmond in a one-day dual meet in Foggy Bottom behind three individual wins from Zhang.

UP NEXT: GW heads into winter break before ramping up in preparation for championship season. The next competition for the both the men and women is a local tri-meet at Georgetown with American on Jan. 12, 2019.

WATCH THIS: Hear from head coach Brian Thomas ahead of the meet against Richmond.

Excellent opportunity for our women to host Richmond at @TheStJames_ in Springfield, Va. @GWCoachBThom previews the two-day meet, which begins Friday at 5 p.m. and resumes Saturday at 10 a.m. #RaiseHigh pic.twitter.com/9aGTg39RqA
— GW Swimming & Diving (@GWSwimDive) November 29, 2018