2024 Emory Invite
- Atlanta, GA
- November 8-9, 2024
- Outcomes
Emory led the best way as they hosted a two-day invite this previous weekend. Highlighting competitors was NCAA Champion Crow Thorsen.
Thorsen was a 3x particular person NCAA All-American this previous season, profitable the Division III title within the 400 IM, ending sixth within the 500 free, and eighth within the 200 fly. He got here away with quite a few occasion wins this weekend, together with a 3:53.55 within the 400 IM, about two seconds off his profitable time of a 3:51.84 from March. He notably was sooner within the 500 free this previous weekend, swimming a private finest 4:25.68. He was sixth in March in a 4:26.34.
The boys’s 100 breast additionally highlighted competitors as Emory teammates Liyang Solar and Henri Bonnault each touched first in a 53.77. Each had been sooner than they had been at NCAAs as Bonnault was seventh then in a 53.86 whereas Solar swam a 54.10 for eleventh. Solar additionally received the 200 breast in a private finest time, touching in a 1:57.82, a time that will have been 4th at 2024 NCAAs. He completed eighth in March in a 1:59.81.
After simply lacking out on the NCAA remaining within the 200 fly this previous season, Emory’s Jeff Echols swam season finest occasions within the 100 fly (47.77) and 200 fly (1:47.75). He swam a 1:48.21 in prelims at NCAAs for seventeenth because it took a 1:47.93 to make it again.
Additionally highlighting the lads’s aspect of the meet was Fernando Dehaudt of Division II Wingate. The primary-year swam to a win within the 1650 free touching in a 15:47.51. Initially from Belgium, he has already adjusted properly to the SCY format as that point earned him an NCAA Division II ‘B’ minimize.
Main the best way on the ladies’s aspect, Emory first-year Allison Greenway swam to 2 private finest occasions. Greenway touched in a 54.71 within the 100 fly and a 2:01.23 within the 200 IM. She additionally swam a 1:03.59 for third within the 100 breast. Her 200 IM and 100 fly occasions this weekend would have been third at 2024 NCAAs whereas her 100 breast would have simply missed the ‘B’ remaining by 0.21 seconds.
2024 NCAA All-American in each backstroke occasions, Megan Jungers of Emory posted occasions sooner this weekend than she was in March. She swam a 54.69 within the 100 again, sooner than her 54.80 that she swam for 4th in March. She additionally swam a 2:01.18 within the 200, sooner than her 2:01.60 for sixth in March.
One other first-year additionally already exhibiting her potential influence on the nationwide degree was Caitlin Crysel. Crysel swam to quite a few finest occasions together with a 23.41 within the 50 free, 1:03.27 within the 100 breast, and a 55.48 within the 100 fly.
