MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia College males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups earned wins towards Villanova and Duquesne on Saturday, marking head coach Brent MacDonald‘s first twin meet victories as the top coach at WVU.
The boys’s swimming and diving crew (1-3) cruised previous Villanova for its twin win of the season, defeating the Wildcats, 247.50-52.50. The ladies’s swimming and diving crew (1-4) defeated Duquesne, 169.50-130.50, and misplaced to Villanova, 160-140.
Within the diving effectively, two Mountaineers posted NCAA Zone qualifying scores. Freshman Levi Hellman positioned second on the boys’s 1-meter (308.50) as he certified for the zone diving championships. He additionally received the boys’s 3-meter with 338.90 factors.
On the ladies’s facet, junior Abigail Sullivan received on 3-meter and certified for zones with 282.20 complete factors. The victory additionally marked the primary of her profession within the occasion.
On the ladies’s 1-meter, redshirt junior Amari Brown-Swint received with 254.45 factors, marking her first collegiate victory in any diving occasion.
Senior Conner McBeth had a dominant efficiency in his ultimate dwelling meet as a Mountaineer, profitable two particular person occasions. First, McBeth received the boys’s 50-yard freestyle (20.23). He adopted that victory by inserting first within the 100 free (44.59).
Senior Justin Heimes was spectacular, profitable the 100-yard (48.06) and 200-yard (1:48.53) backstroke for WVU. Senior Jake Younger received the boys’s 100-yard breaststroke (54.82) and positioned second within the 200 breast (2:02.07).
For the ladies’s crew, sophomore Maddie Smutny received the 200-yard butterfly (1:59.34) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:52.71).
Within the girls’s 1650 freestyle, junior Olivia Busch positioned first with a ultimate time of 16:50.08.
In simply her second meet with WVU, redshirt junior Natasha Whittall positioned second within the 100-yard backstroke (55.20).
West Virginia will face Penn State on Saturday, Feb. 1, at McCoy Natatorium in College Park, Pennsylvania. The meet is slated to start at 11 a.m.
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