Georgia Tech vs. South Carolina
- January 25, 2025
- Columbia, SC
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Scores:
- Girls: South Carolina, 211.5 def. Georgia Tech, 86.5
- Males: Georgia Tech, 169 def. South Carolina, 131
- Full Outcomes
Girls’s Recap
The South Carolina ladies closed out the common season strongly, beating Georgia Tech 211.5-86.5 to win their third straight twin meet. Senior Greta Pelzek highlighted the motion for the Gamecocks, breaking her second pool report of the season. She took down the pool report within the 200 fly, her major occasion, with a season-best 1:53.93. The swim chops .75 seconds from her season-best, a 1:54.68 she swam at South Carolina’s twin in opposition to Auburn earlier this month.
Pelzek additionally gained the 100 butterfly with a 52.47 and contributed to the Gamecocks’ 200 medley relay win to start the meet. Amy Riordan (24.93), Annaliese Streeter (27.88), Pelzek (23.18), and Dylan Scholes (22.14) swam 1:38.13 to win the race, edging out Georgia Tech’s ‘A’ relay of Vivien Rothwell (24.62), Sabyne Brisson (27.90), Zora Ripkova (23.89), and Nina Stanisavljevic (21.88) by .16 seconds. Georgia Tech’s ‘A’ relay clocked 1:38.29, and it was an thrilling race to begin the day’s motion, as the highest three groups had been inside .38 seconds of one another.
After successful the 200 medley relay, the Gamecocks stored rolling, successful the following three occasions. Freshman Emma Reiser swam a lifetime better of 9:48.67 to guide a podium sweep for South Carolina within the 1000 freestyle. Then, Ellery Ottem gained the 200 freestyle in 1:46.02, simply two-hundredths off the lifetime finest she swam on the Gamecock Invitational this season.
Riordan owns the South Carolina program report within the 200 freestyle, 100 again, and 200 again. She targeted on the backstroke occasions at this meet, successful South Carolina’s fourth-straight occasion win with a 52.90 within the 100 again. Later, she accomplished the backstroke sweep with a 1:54.81 within the 200.
Brisson lastly broke via for the Yellowjackets. She earned the workforce’s first—and solely—occasion of the day, the 100 breaststroke. Brisson was behind South Carolina’s Elizabeth Goodwin-Birnie on the flip however rallied with a 31.71 again half to win.
The Gamecocks received proper again into the win column with Pelzek’s 200-fly pool report after Brisson’s win. Pelzek and Riordan weren’t the one double-event winners on the day, as Peyton Curry and Delaney Franklin every picked up a pair of occasion wins. Curry swept the dash freestyles, swimming a private finest 22.46 within the 50 that strikes her as much as fourth in program historical past. Franklin has been on hearth this month, swimming lifetime bests within the 200 breast and 200 IM. After successful the 200 breast (2:12.31), Franklin swam one other finest, this time to win the 400 IM (4:13.88).
Curry, Riordan, Ottem, and Scholes teamed up for the 400 freestyle relay, the ultimate occasion of the day. The quartet gained one other shut race in opposition to Georgia Tech’s ‘A’ relay, clocking 3:16.47 to the Yellowjackets’ 3:16.82.
Males’s Recap
The lads’s aspect of the meet was affected by shut races. Georgia Tech was on the appropriate aspect of most of them, which powered the workforce’s 169-131 win over the Gamecocks. The nail-biting races started within the first occasion, as Berke Saka (21.72), Uros Zivanovic (23.87), Leandro Odorici (20.65), and Robin Yeboah (19.73) swam 1:25.97, successful by a tenth over South Carolina.
That win kickstarted a three-event run for the Georgia Tech males, just like the South Carolina ladies’s run. Mert Kilavuz gained the 1000 freestyle (9:01.61), whereas Vitor Sega led a 1-2 end for the Yellowjackets within the 200 freestyle. Sega pressed the again half of the race, splitting 24.54/24.51 to the touch in 1:36.39, .04 seconds forward of teammate Ricky Balduccini and .33 seconds forward of South Carolina’s Ryan Hufford.
Michael Laitarovsky received the Gamecocks into the win column within the 100 backstroke, holding off a 23.89 back-half from Saka and successful in 46.52. Saka took second in 46.63. Then, South Carolina went on a three-event win streak of its personal. Linus Kahl took the 100 breaststroke in 53.50, hitting the wall a hundredth forward of Zivanovic. Then, Tommy Eaton gained the 200 butterfly (1:44.48).
Georgia Tech flexed within the dash freestyle occasions. Odorici and Yeboah took the highest two spots within the 50 freestyle, hitting 20.09 and 20.20. The Yellowjackets had been even stronger within the 100 free, incomes a podium sweep with Balduccini, Odorici, and Yeboah. Baldunccini swam 44.04 to the touch first forward of Odorici’s 44.11, and Yeboah’s 44.22.
After taking second within the 100 backstroke, Saka earned his first particular person occasion win of the day within the 200 again. He held off a giant shut from South Carolina’s Kaden Smesko, swimming 1:43.01 to the touch forward of Smesko. Georgia Tech and South Carolina additionally break up the butterfly occasions, as Balduccini swam 46.99 to win the 100 fly. Nevertheless, South Carolina managed the breaststrokes, as Kahl gained the 200 in 1:56.41 to finish the sweep and lead a Gamecock 1-2 end.
Connor Fry gained the five hundred freestyle (4:24.88) and Raymond Prosinski the 400 IM (3:51.41) for South Carolina. Odorici, Yeboah, Saka, and David Gapinski capped off the meet with a 2:55.02 to win the 400 freestyle relay.
Up Subsequent
This was the final twin meet for each South Carolina and Georgia Tech. Subsequent, South Carolina will ship choose swimmers to UVA’s Cavalier Invitational from Feb. 6-8. Georgia Tech will ship a contingent to the Auburn First Likelihood Meet from Feb. 7-8.
