South Carolina vs. Virginia Tech
- January 4, 2025
- Christiansburg Aquatic Middle — Christiansburg, VA
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Scores:
- Ladies: HM South Carolina, 175.16 def. #25 Virginia Tech, 124.83
- Males: #10 Virginia Tech, 204 def. NR South Carolina, 96
- Full Outcomes
Six pool data fell as Virginia Tech hosted South Carolina for the Hokies’ Senior Day. Virginia Tech earned a powerful victory on the lads’s aspect of the meet, outscoring South Carolina by 108 factors. The Gamecock girls have been victorious over the Hokies, 175.16 to 124.83.
Males’s Recap
Carles Coll Marti continues to roll lower than a month after changing into the short-course meters 200 breaststroke world champion. The fifth-year was integral to the Hokies’ win. He earned three particular person occasion wins, all in pool file time, contributing half of the pool data that fell in the course of the meet.
Coll Marti kicked issues off by posting a season-best 51.00 to win the 100 breaststroke by over two seconds. He break up 24.10/26.90 to maneuver up the NCAA season rankings to fifth, bettering from the 51.10 he swam on the Wolfpack Elite Invitational. The swim is simply five-hundredths off Coll Marti’s lifetime greatest of fifty.95, which he swam on the 2024 ACC Championships.
He earned a sweep of the breaststroke occasions on the meet, posting a pool file 1:50.88 to win. Coll Marti’s season greatest on this occasion is a 1:50.09 from the Wolfpack Elite Invite, however he’s been remarkably constant within the 200 breaststroke this season; that is his fourth 1:50-point swim of 2024-25. Lastly, Marti added his third occasion win and pool file of the day within the 200 IM, clocking 1:43.55.
Coll Marti swam the breaststroke leg on Virginia Tech’s successful 200 medley relay. Youssef Ramadan (21.04), Coll Marti (23.18), Will Hayon (20.50), and Brendan Whitfield (18.97) swam 1:23.69 to seize the primary win of the meet. Virginia Tech’s quickest 200 medley relay this season continues to be the 1:23.50 they swam on the SMU Basic, their first meet of the season.
That opening 200 medley relay victory started a dominant day for the Hokie males. Although South Carolina went 2-3 within the 200 medley relay, and certainly one of its two swimming occasion wins got here within the very subsequent occasion with Connor Fry successful the 1000 freestyle, the Hokies stepped on the fuel with a podium sweep of the 200 freestyle and didn’t look again. Virginia Tech earned 1-2 finishes in six occasions, which helped separate them from the Gamecocks.
Ramadan factored in two pool data on the day. His particular person pool file got here in his first particular person occasion, the 100 backstroke, the place he clocked 45.10, main a 1-2 end for Virginia Tech as he established his new mark. After he received the 100 fly, his second particular person occasion of the day, in 45.03, he break up 41.88 on Virginia Tech’s pool-record-setting 400 freestyle relay. Whitfield (42.29), Ramadan (41.88), Luis Dominguez Calonge (42.66), and Mario Molla Yannes (42.01) swam 2:48.84 to ascertain the brand new mark.
Whitfield and Dominguez Calonge have been the opposite double occasion winners on the lads’s aspect of the meet. The sophomore Whitfield clocked 19.47/42.54 to brush the dash freestyle occasions. Dominguez Calonge led the rostrum sweep within the 200 freestyle with a season-best 1:33.66. Then, he received the five hundred freestyle (4:24.44). Molla Yanes was Virginia Tech’s different particular person occasion winner within the pool, setting a lifetime better of 1:41.56 to win the 200 backstroke and transfer to sixth-best in program historical past. He additionally swam a lifetime better of 46.87 to complete second within the 100 again.
After the 1000 freestyle win by Fry, the one different occasion South Carolina received within the pool was the 200 butterfly. There, Tommy Eaton swam away from the sector. The fifth-year clocked 1:45.18, successful by virtually two seconds. Moreover, South Carolina added 2-3 finishes within the 200 breaststroke, 500 freestyle, and 200 IM although they may not hold tempo with the Hokies, who’ve completed ninth at NCAAs for the previous two seasons.
Ladies’s Recap
HM All-American Greta Pelzek broke the lone pool file on the ladies’s aspect of the meet, serving to South Carolina defeat Virginia Tech. Pelzek broke the five-year-old 200 butterfly pool file, rushing to a 1:55.51 and main a 1-2-3 end for the Gamecocks. She was inside a second of her season-best time, a 1:54.75 from the Gamecock Invitational. Later, Pelzek accomplished the butterfly sweep, main from wire to wire to win the 100 butterfly in 53.13.
The place the South Carolina males struggled to beat the Hokies and get their arms on the wall first, the Gamecock girls had no such bother, successful seven occasions within the pool. Delaney Franklin matched Pelzek’s double occasion win by hitting the wall first within the 200 breaststroke and 200 IM. She swam a private greatest of two:11.47 to win the breaststroke, then led a 1-2-3-4 end for South Carolina within the 200 IM, their highest-scoring occasion of the day.
The Gamecocks additionally acquired occasion wins from NCAA finalist Amy Riordan within the 200 free (1:46.14), Madison Kolessar within the 1000 free (9:49.56), and Peyton Curry within the 100 free (49.67). Curry tied with Virginia Tech’s Emily Claesson within the 100 freestyle, with 49.67 marking a brand new lifetime greatest for her.
Whereas Virginia Tech misplaced by 50.33 factors, that they had a number of robust occasions that helped them cease the Gamecocks from operating away with the meet. Carmen Weiler Sastre swept the backstroke occasions, clocking 52.22/1:53.32. The Hokies earned a 1-2 end within the 100 backstroke, and Emily Santos and Esther Park adopted that up with one other 1-2 end within the subsequent occasion, the 100 breaststroke. Earlier than tying within the 100 freestyle, Claesson took the 50 freestyle win in 22.73. Lastly, Kate Anderson denied the Gamecocks a 1-2-3-4 end within the 500 freestyle by successful the occasion in 4:47.49 forward of 4 Gamecock swimmers.
The Virginia Tech girls additionally received each relays. The quartet of Weiler Sastre (24.68), Santos (27.82), Athena Meneses Kovacs (24.06), and Claesson (21.93) swam 1:38.49 to win the opening 200 medley relay by almost a second. Their margin of victory was even higher within the 400 freestyle relay as Weiler Sastre (48.65), Claesson (49.51), Anna Summers (49.49), and Kovacs (49.71) hit 3:17.36 to beat the South Carolina ‘A’ relay by 1.36 seconds.
Up Subsequent
Each groups are again in motion this weekend. Virginia Tech heads to a rivalry meet with UVA on Jan. 10. In the meantime, South Carolina heads to Auburn for an in-conference twin meet on Jan. 11.
