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Swimming & Diving Overwhelms Georgetown, Wins Eighth-Consecutive Meet vs. Hoyas
1/18/2025 6:40:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving
The Revolutionaries won 29 of 32 events
WASHINGTON - The George Washington University men's and women's swimming & diving teams left nothing to doubt at McCarthy Pool on Saturday, throttling the Georgetown Hoyas, 213-86 (men's) & 203-95 (women's), and beating the crosstown foe for the eighth-straight meet.
MEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
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GW's 200-yard medley 'A' relay, swam by Ganesh Sivaramakrishnan, Preston Lin, Daniel Nagy and Elliott Irwin, started the meet with a victory (1:28.29).
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Sivaramakrishnan (48.02), Holden Thomas (49.33) and Karol Mlynarczyk (49.98) finished first, second and third in the 100-yard backstroke, respectively.
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Daniel Choi went fastest for the Revolutionaries in both distance swims, the 1,650-yard freestyle (15:34.50) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:30.98).
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Gage Boushee (1:38.98) and Justin Dostal (1:41.17) grabbed first and second in the 200-yard freestyle, respectively.
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Preston Lin earned a win in the 100-yard breaststroke (55.26).
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Connor Rodgers blazed through the 200-yard butterfly for the win (1:46.93), more than three seconds quicker than second place.
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Elliott Irwin sprinted to victory in the 50-yard free (20.20).
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Ben Bradley (307.80) and Michael Wood (303.08) earned the top two scores on the 1-meter board. Bradley (308.55), Holden Wheeler (303.90) and Wood (293.10) later submitted the top scores on the 3-meter board.
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Shae Stratton (1:47.85) and Mlynarczyk (1:49.52) were the top finishers in the 200-yard backstroke, as Stratton neared a GW all-time top ten time.
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Ben Sosnowski neared his personal best time in the 200-yard breaststroke and won the event (1:59.03).
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Nagy earned a Buff & Blue win in the 100-yard fly (47.78).
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Rodgers (1:49.21) and Sosnowski (1:49.62) had the best two times in the 200-yard IM.
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The men's 400-yard freestyle relay finished the meet in first (3:01.69), swam by Irwin, Thomas, Nagy and Sivaramakrishnan.
WOMEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
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In the 200-yard freestyle, Colleen MacWilliams (1:49.55), Ava Topolewski (1:50.91) and Jules Fifer (1:52.79) made it an all-GW top three.
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Veronica Fyfe (260.70), Olivia Paquette (260.33) and Olivia Rosen (230.70) swept the podium on the 1-meter board. Paquette (307.73) and Dyde (271.58) later had the top pair of scores on the 3-meter board.
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Topolewski (16:28.07) and Taylor Bernosky (17:32.53) nabbed first and second in the 1,650-yard freestyle. The pair dominated the distance events, finishing in the same order in the 500-yard freestyle (Topolewski: 4:56.61; Bernosky: 5:05.26).
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Marlee Rickert touched first in the 100-yard backstroke (56.14). Rickert later earned her second win of the meet in the 100-yard freestyle (51.45).
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Chloe Hernandez, GW's all-time fastest sprinter, won the 50-yard free (23.68).
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Sori Ebrahimi (1:05.20) and Breuklynn Harris (1:05.58) were the two quickest in the 100-yard breaststroke.
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Molly Smyers won the 200-yard butterfly (2:00.14), nearing her personal-best time. Smyers continued her quality outing with a victory in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:16.69), nearly five seconds faster than second place, and with a victory in the 200-yard IM (2:02.60), followed closely behind by MacWilliams (2:04.00).
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MacWilliams was quick in the 200-yard backstroke and earned first place (2:01.72).
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The women's 400-yard freestyle relay took first place to close the meet (3:23.45). The relay was swam by Hernandez, Rickert, MacWilliams and Topolewski.
UP NEXT
GW prepares for its final dual meet of the season, next a split-location meet against UMBC. The meet begins Saturday at 1:00 p.m. in Baltimore, and continues with Senior Day, Sunday at 10:00 a.m. at the Smith Center.
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