Swimming and Diving Builds Upon Leads at A-10 Championships

2/17/2023 10:53:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving

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Buff and Blue captures 19 individual medals on Day Three

GENEVA, OHIO - Day three of the A-10 Championships was full of medals and records as GW swimming and diving built upon both of its leads heading into the final day of competition. GW captured 19 individual medals and one relay medal on day three and now hold substantial leads on both sides of the pool, with 522 (men) and 586 (women) points apiece.

Men's Highlights:

The men placed four into the 400-yard IM and could not have wished for a better result. GW finished with all-four top spots, highlighted by Connor Rodgers winning gold (3:46.25) and breaking the A-10 400-yard IM record. Behind Rodgers followed Marek Osina in second (3:46.55), Bode Ringenbach in third (3:47.30) and Misha Lyubavskiy in fourth (3:51.06).
Djurdje Matic set the A-10 meet record and took first place (45.76) in the 100-yard butterfly final. Matic was just .24 seconds away from the overall A-10 record which he set last year at the Bulldog Invitational. Matthew Whelan followed behind Matic and earned the bronze medal (46.79).
Preston Lin finished in second place (53.94) in the 100-yard breaststroke final after cutting 1.07 off his prelim time.
For the second time in the meet, the men occupied all three spots on the podium. Karol Mlynarczyk paced the group (46.84), while Ryan Patterson won silver (47.53) and Ganesh Sivaramakrishnan took bronze (47.69).

Women's highlights:

In today's prelims, Julia Knox crushed (4:11.44) the 400-yard IM A-10 meet record (4:13.27), just one day after setting the A-10 overall record in the 200-yard IM. Knox went on to take silver (4:15.07) in the final of the event, behind teammate Molly Smyers (4:14.18), who took home her second gold medal of the meet.
GW medaled two in the women's 100-yard butterfly. Barbara Schaal took gold (53.80) and was just .05 seconds off the program record time, which she set in the morning prelim. Moriah Freitas was behind Schaal in third (54.11) and will bring home a bronze medal in the event.
GW completed a podium sweep in the 200-yard freestyle final thanks to top swims from Phoebe Wright, Siena Senn and Grace Olivardia. First-year Wright led the way (1:47.71), then followed Senn (1:49.08) and Olivardia (1:49.20).
Ava DeAngelis broke the program's 100-yard breaststroke record twice today. DeAngelis opened by swimming a 1:01.52 in the prelim, later besting that time with a 1:01.01 in the final which won her silver.
Schaal later swam a 54.00 in the 100-yard backstroke which won her a silver medal.
Olivia Paquette represented GW on the podium in the three-meter dive. The program record holder in the event nabbed bronze in the final (293.70).
The women finished the meet on a high note with a second-place (3:37.05) program-record swim in the 400-yard medley relay. Schaal, DeAngelis, Freitas and Wright broke the standing conference record in the event, but were second to George Mason (3:36.40).

Up Next:

The fourth and final day of the A-10 Championships is tomorrow, with prelims at 10 a.m. and finals 6 p.m. All of the action will be streamed live on ESPN+.

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