MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia College males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups renew the Yard Brawl towards the Pitt Panthers and also will face George Washington in a tri-meet at Timber Pool in Pittsburgh at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 11, on ACC Community Additional.
That is West Virginia’s first motion because it hosted the WVU Invitational from Nov. 20-22. The lads’s swimming and diving staff positioned second whereas the ladies’s swimming and diving staff positioned fourth.
Each the boys’s and ladies’s groups misplaced to Pitt in Morgantown final season.
Redshirt senior Danny Berlitz has been a dominant pressure all through the season for the Mountaineers, successful two particular person occasions on the WVU Invite.
In his most up-to-date look, Berlitz received the 400-yard particular person medley at the USA Open Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Sophomores Delaney Cox and Maddie Smutny have paved the best way for the ladies’s swimming and diving staff this season. Cox and Smutny every posted two high 10 instances on the WVU Invite.
Cox swam the sixth quickest time in program historical past within the 100-yard backstroke (54.33) and 200-yard backstroke (1:57.50) on the WVU Invitational.
Smutny swam the fifth quickest time within the 200-yard butterfly (1:59.23) and the ninth quickest time whereas successful the 500-yard freestyle (4:51.02) on the WVU Invite.
Within the diving effectively, the Mountaineers have obtained constant performances from sophomore Owen Recker. He has already posted NCAA Zone qualifying scores on the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform.
Junior Sarah Krusinski and sophomore Abigail Sullivan have posted zone qualifying scores for the ladies’s staff. Krusinski has certified on the 1-meter, 3-meter and platform. Sullivan has certified on platform.
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