WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University swimming and diving team picked up three wins today as the Judges dropped a dual meet with the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. The Bears took the men's meet by a 145-71 score and the women's meet by a score of 167-47.
TEAM RECORDS
- Brandeis: Men, 1-5; Women, 0-7.
- Coast Guard: Men, 6-0; Women, 8-0.
BRANDEIS TOP PERFORMERS, MEN
- The Judges' three wins all came from the men's team.
- Seniors Sam Bundy (Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell) and Eric Xiao (College Station, Texas/AM Consolidated) each had a win and a second-place finish in individual races. Bundy won the 1000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:16.57, winning by about six-and-a-half seconds. He also placed second in the 200-yard butterfly with a mark of 2:02.91, three second out of a win.
- Xiao excelled in the freestyle sprints, winning the 100 by .48 of a second with a time of 49.25. He was second in the 50 free by 0.17 seconds with a time of 22.22 seconds.
- The team's final winner was senior Benjamin Lee (Upton, Mass./Nipmuc Regional) in the 200 with a time of 1:47.53 by a margin of 1.2 seconds.
- Junior Riley Pasicaran (Kennewick, Wash./Hanford) had a runner-up finish in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:00.05, while junior Luke Abrahamson (Lincoln, R.I./Lincoln) was third in the 400-yard individual medley in 4:36.55.
- The Judges' top relay on the day was the 200 free that finished second in 1:28.37 made up of senior Solomon Skelton-Harris (Golden Valley, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong), Xiao, Lee, and sophomore Peter Mou (Chestnut Hill, Mass./Brimmer and May School).
BRANDEIS TOP PERFORMERS, WOMEN
- On the women's side, the Judges had a pair of second-place finishes.
- Senior Jenna Wild (Evanston, Ill./Evanston Township) was second in the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 57.16 seconds. She also had a third-place finish in the 500 free in 5:48.46.
- Rookie diver Ivana Marinkovic (Malden, Mass./Malden) was second in the 1-meter event with a score of 142.28.
- Senior Audrey Teo (Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto) had two third-place finishes in the 50 free (26.82 seconds) and the 200 breaststroke (2:40.55).
- Third-place finishes were turned in by first-year Sasha Tsizer (Framingham, Mass./Framingham) in the 1000 free (12:00.26); sophomore Sophia He (Sugar Land, Texas/Elying) in the 200 butterfly (2:24.91) and senior D'Arcy Anselmi (Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River) in the 200 backstroke (2:25.94).
UP NEXT
- The Judges are back in action tomorrow at Tufts at noon.