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Swimming and Diving Sweeps Georgetown, Extends Win Streak to Six over Hoyas
1/21/2023 5:06:00 PM | Women's Swimming and Diving
Buff and Blue won 20 of 26 events and broke five McCarthy Pool records
WASHINGTON - GW swimming and diving defeated Georgetown, 133-108 (men's) and 143-92 (women's), Saturday afternoon at McCarthy Pool. The Colonials extended their win streak over Georgetown to six, having won each meeting against the Hoyas since the 2015-16 season.
The Buff and Blue started out red-hot, winning the first seven events, and went on to 20 of 26 events, including the women going a perfect 13-for-13. GW shattered five pool records (men's 400-medley relay, men's 100-yard backstroke, women's 200-yard backstroke, women's 400-yard IM, women's 3-meter dive) on the way to its second dual meet victory of 2023.
Women's Highlights:
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Marlee Rickert, Ava DeAngelis, Barbara Schaal and Grace Olivardia took first place (3:52.30) in the 400-yard medley relay, earning full points to kick-off the meet.
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GW had the top-three finishes in the 1000-yard freestyle. Ava Topolewski paced the group (10:14.57) and won her second 1000-yard freestyle in as many meets. Molly Smyers and Taylor Bernosky followed behind and took second (10:22.45) and third (10:29.48), respectively.
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First-year Phoebe Wright won both of her individual events and set a pool record. Wright began by taking first in the 200-yard freestyle (1:53.16), beating out teammate Siena Senn (1:54.71) by just under two seconds. She then took first (2:01.90) in the 200-yard backstroke by over six seconds and set a McCarthy Pool record in the event.
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Sophomore Julia Knox broke the pool record in the 400-yard IM after taking first place (4:23.88) by almost eight seconds.
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First-year Olivia Paqutte took first place (301.88) in the three-meter dive and set a pool record while doing so. Dara Reyblat and Jamie Doak finished in second (248.03) and third (244.43).
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Doak won (258.30) the one-meter dive, followed by Paquette in second (256.80).
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Schaal won two individual races. She finished first in the 50-yard freestyle (24.73), followed closely by Becca Brown in second (24.89), before beating out the competition in the 100-yard freestyle (53.25).
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In the 200-yard butterfly, Smyers nabbed first (2:04.33) and Topolewski took second (2:05.17).
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Topolewski won (4:59.84) her second individual race in the 500-yard freestyle, edging out the victory by .33 seconds over Knox, who finished in second (5:00.17).
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DeAngelis took first place (2:20.77) in the 200-yard breaststroke, an event she won last weekend.
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Rickert, Wright, Olivardia and Brown put a bow on the meet with a first-place performance (3:32.52) in the 400-yard freestyle relay.
Men's Highlights:
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The men started off the meet by breaking a pair of pool records in the 400-yard medley relay. Karol Mlynarczyk, Bode Ringenbach, Djurdje Matic and Dylan Koo took first place (3:20.68) and the pool record for the 400-yard medley relay, while Mlynaczyk set the pool record in the 100-yard backstroke (48.12) in the first leg of the relay.
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GW finished with the top-three 1000-yard freestyle times. Philip Moldovanu won the race (9:32.66), while Brendan Conley took second (9:43.96) and Zach Hu took third (9:47.33).
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Marek Osina led the way (1:42.97) as GW swept the podium in the 200-yard freestyle. Osina was followed by Daniel Nagy in second (1:43.24) and Oscar Madsen in third (1:45.19).
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For the second meet in a row, Nagy took first place in the 200-yard butterfly (1:51.07).
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Ryan Patterson, Mlynarczyk and Ganesh Sivaramakrishnan completed the podium sweep in the 200-yard backstroke. Patterson led the group (1:50.82) and cut over two seconds off his time from last weekend, while Mlynarczyk took second (1:52.43) and Sivaramakrishnan secured third (1:54.23).
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Moldovanu and Mikhail Lyubavskiy finished in first (4:39.06) and second place (4:39.51) in the 500-yard freestyle, respectively. It is the second-consecutive meet that Moldovanu took first place in the event.
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Matic, Dylan Koo, Sivaramakrishnan and Tyler Kawakami won (3:06.37) the 400-yard freestyle in the final event of the meet.
Up Next:
The Buff and Blue are off until February 3-5, when they head to Charlottesville, Va. for the Cavalier Invite, hosted by UVA.
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