MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia College males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups misplaced to Penn State on Saturday on the McCoy Natatorium in College Park, Pennsylvania.
The boys’s swimming and diving staff (1-4) misplaced, 193-90. The ladies’s swimming and diving staff (1-5) misplaced, 189-91.
Regardless of the dropping effort, the Mountaineers had some vivid spots in opposition to the Nittany Lions. Sophomore Delaney Cox was the one Mountaineer to high the rostrum as she received the ladies’s 200-yard backstroke (2:01.38).
Two Mountaineers posted high 10 instances of their respective occasions for the ladies’s staff. In simply her third meet with WVU, redshirt junior Natasha Whittall posted the tenth quickest time within the ladies’s 100-yard backstroke (54.81).
Within the males’s 100 again, senior Justin Heimes beat his earlier finest with a ultimate time of 46.66. He holds the fourth quickest time within the occasion in program historical past.
Redshirt sophomore Sofia Deste positioned third whereas posting the 9th quickest time in program historical past within the ladies’s 100-yard breaststroke. She touched the wall at 1:03.43.
Within the males’s 400-yard particular person medley, freshman Joey Stebbins positioned second and set the tenth quickest time with a ultimate time of three:52.42.
Within the diving effectively, sophomore Owen Recker positioned second on the boys’s 1-meter (338.70) and 3-meter (310.05). Recker’s level complete for the 1-meter locations him fourth all-time in program historical past on the 1-meter.
For the ladies’s staff, junior Abigail Sullivan positioned third on the ladies’s 3-meter (275.70).
West Virginia does compete once more till the 2025 Huge 12 Swimming and Diving Championships. This 12 months’s championships happen at Weyerhaeuser Aquatic Middle in Federal Approach, Washington, from Feb. 25-March 1.
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