MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia College males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups face Penn State within the ultimate twin meet of the season on Saturday, Feb. 1, at 11 a.m. on Massive Ten Plus on the McCoy Natatorium in College Park, Pennsylvania.
Most not too long ago, the lads’s swimming and diving staff (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 staff (1-4) defeated Duquesne, 169.50-130.50, and misplaced to Villanova, 160-140.
Within the diving nicely, 4 Mountaineers have certified in at the very least two occasions for the NCAA Zone Diving Championships. Freshman Levi Hellman, sophomore Owen Recker and senior Sarah Krusinski have every certified in all three occasions for the zones.
Junior Abigail Sullivan has certified on the 3-meter and platform.
Senior Conner McBeth has been spectacular all through the season for the lads’s staff. Final day trip, McBeth had a dominant efficiency in his ultimate dwelling meet as a Mountaineer, successful two particular person occasions.
First, McBeth received the lads’s 50-yard freestyle (20.23). He adopted that victory by putting first within the 100 free (44.59).
For the ladies’s staff, sophomore Maddie Smutny continues to paved the way, successful the 200-yard butterfly (1:59.34) and the 500-yard freestyle (4:52.71) in opposition to Villanova and Duquesne.
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