William & Mary vs UNCW
- October 14, 2023
- Williamsburg, Va.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Tribe Athletics
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The William & Mary women’s swim team (2-0, 1-0 CAA) emerged victorious over the CAA defending champion UNCW women, 167-95, on Saturday afternoon. En route to 11 first-place finishes, the women set five pool records and four dual-meet records.
The Tribe men’s team (1-1, 0-1 CAA) dropped their first meet of the season, 176.5-85.5, but secured 13 podium-finishes and wins in three events.
Sophia Heilen swam for three individual pool and dual-meet records in the 200 fly with a time of 2:00.79, the 200 IM in 2:03.62 and the 200 breast with a 2:15.94 finish. Her 200 breast time was also a personal record.
The 200 medley relay team of Kat Vanbourgondien, Ellie Scherer, Heilen and Caroline Burgeson set a pool and dual-meet record with a 1:42.26 finish and the 400 free relay shaved over one second off the previous pool record as Sarah Dunham, Burgeson, Sydney Querner and Flynn Truskett finished with a 3:25.89 time.
The Tribe women swept the podium in the 200 fly as Lauren Klinefelter (2:04.90) and Clara Bodnar (2:07.87) earned second and third place, respectively, behind Heilen’s pool-record win.
Gavin Lamoureux swept the fly events on the men’s side, winning the 100 fly in 50.61 and the 200 fly with a 1:52.76 time. Freshman Thor Dyke earned first place in the 1,000 free with his 9:36.79 finish, leading the second-place swimmer by nearly five seconds.
The Tribe men earned second place in the 200 medley relay, finishing just two tenths of a second behind the Seahawks’ first place team, as Aaron Tingley, Brock Rempe, Lamoureux and Alex Valliere recorded a 1:31.70 time.
Freshman Lauren Tucker earned her second women’s 1,000 free-victory in as many meets with a 10:21.57 time and Devin Genderson also made a podium finish in 10:35.88.
Lindsay Juhlin topped the women’s 100 fly with a 55.58 time and Klinefelter took second place with a 56.34 finish.
Vanbourgondien and Burgeson took the top two spots in the women’s 100 back with 57.09 and 57.29 finishes, respectively.
Taking four of the six podium places in the 50 free, Querner (23.96) and Truskett (24.01) earned first and second place for the women as Aiden Bond (20.81) and Valliere (21.17) placed second and third on the men’s side.
Scherer’s 1:03.40 first-place finish in the 100 breast was just two-hundreths of a second shy of the pool record (1:03.38) and within a tenth of a second of W&M’s dual-meet record (1:03.31).
Finishing on the podium for the men was David Yune, with a second-place finish in the 200 back in 1:51.06. Also earning top-three times were Rempe, with a third-place, 56.84 finish in the 100 breast, and Zach LeMay in the 200 fly, coming in third in 1:54.17. In addition to his win, Dyke placed second in the men’s 500 free with his 4:39.76 time.
Kelsey Katt had a second-place finish in the women’s 500 free, as the sophomore finished in 5:07.90.
Full meet results are available here.
UP NEXT
W&M swimming will be back at home next weekend, Oct. 21, for W&M Homecoming and Alumni Reunion weekend against Towson. The meet will begin at 11 a.m. at Bee McLeod Recreation Center.
Courtesy: UNCW Sports
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – UNCW’s Jacob Duracinsky, Dylan Citta and William Carrico won two events apiece as UNCW’s men’s program rolled past William & Mary, 176.5-85.5, in swimming and diving action on Saturday at the Bee McLeod Recreation Center. William & Mary won the women’s meet, 167-95.
The Seahawks stayed perfect on the season with their third consecutive win while the women dipped to 1-2. The Tribe, meanwhile, is 2-0 and 1-1 on the season in women’s and men’s, respectively.
Duracinsky topped the field in both the 100 and 200 Freestyle while Citta did the same in the 100 and 200 Breaststrokes. Carrico, a freshman, took first in the 500 Freestyle and then won the 200 IM later in the meet.
Emily Waite was a multi-event winner for the Seahawks in the 50 and 200 Freestrokes. Rachel Jones added a win in the 200 Backstroke.
In diving on Saturday, the Seahawk women traveled to East Carolina where Tatum Church posted UNCW’s top finish on the day. Church finished third on the 1-meter board with a score of 262.13 points. On the 3-meter, Hunter Smith was fourth with 245.70 points.
The Seahawks host North Carolina on Oct. 20 at 4 p.m.
Event Winners: Men’s 200 Medley Relay, Emily Waite (50 Free, 200 Free), Jacob Duracinsky (100 Free, 200 Free), Will Goldey (100 Back), Dylan Citta (100 Breast, 200 Breast), Mac Rusell (50 Free), Rachel Jones (200 Back), Robert Tars (200 Back), William Carrico (500 Free, 200 IM), Men’s 400 Free Relay