Men's Swimming & Diving Snaps Pair of A-10 Marks

Wednesday, February 20

Geneva, OH

ALL DAY

George Washington University

Atlantic 10 Championships

2/20/2019 7:29:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving

Results Women's Recap

Colonials earned three medals Wednesday

GENEVA, Ohio - Seeking a third straight conference title, George Washington men's swimming and diving surged to a strong start Wednesday, claiming a pair of relay golds in record time to jump to the front of the pack again at the Atlantic 10 Championships.

The Colonials also received a silver-medal diving effort from Peter Nachtwey to rack up 122 points on the first of four days at the SPIRE Institute. They're on top of the team standings, followed by George Mason (104), St. Bonaventure (80), La Salle (78) and Massachusetts (77).

GW blazed to gold in the night's first event with Emils Pone, Tommi Wolst, Max Forstenhaeusler and Alexander Auster combining to win the 200-yard medley relay in 1:27.06. That win dropped more than four-tenths of a second off of the program and conference record the Colonials set in 2018.

The team of Moritz Fath, Youssef Ragab, Dylan Arzoni and Pone put together an electric swim in the 800-yard freestyle relay to finish in 6:28.60 and shave more than a second off the previous mark set by St. Bonaventure in 2014.

Fath set the tone by completing the opening leg in 1:35.47 to break his own program record and establish a new A-10 mark in the 200 free. Ragab and Arzoni kept the lead before Pone finished it out to earn his second gold of the night.

All four GW divers scored on the 1-meter board. Nacthwey led the way, earning a repeat silver in the event with a score of 285.45 in the final. Jake Ortiz also qualified for the championship final and placed fifth (256.60) with Nick Tomczyk (11th) and Nick Malloy (12th) scoring, as well.

UP NEXT: The A-10 Championships continue Thursday with preliminary racing for the first individual swimming events starting at 10 a.m. followed by finals at 6:30 p.m. The full schedule for the four-day meet is available here.

WATCH THIS: Hear from head coach Brian Thomas and Fath after the opening day of the A-10 Championships.

We're off to a great start! Hear from @GWCoachBThom and Moritz Fath after the opening night of @atlantic10 Championships. #RaiseHigh pic.twitter.com/ct90PPcmTY
— GW Swimming & Diving (@GWSwimDive) February 21, 2019