Boston Faculty Golden Eagles vs. UMass Minutemen/Minutewomen
- October 5, 2024
- College of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass.
- Quick Course Yards (25 yards), school twin meet
- Full Meet Outcomes
- Workforce Scores
- Boston Faculty W 156 – UMass W 142
- Boston Faculty M 186 – UMass M 114
A yr and two weeks after the Boston Faculty swimming & diving program was suspended, with some fearing the Golden Eagles would by no means return to varsity competitors, the staff burst into the 2024-2025 season with a pair of victories over in-state foes UMass on Saturday afternoon. The meet marked the NCAA teaching debut of this system’s new head coach, 12-time Olympic medalist and 5 time Olympian Dara Torres.
Whereas the ladies’s meet was a nailbiter, with Boston Faculty needing a few late wins to drag out a 14-point victory, the lads’s meet was comparatively-lopsided, with the BC males profitable by 72 factors.
Whereas Boston Faculty, distinctive amongst Energy 4 applications with out athletic scholarships for his or her swimming & diving program, repeatedly finishes on the backside of the ACC, they nonetheless had a whole lot of upward momentum going into their suspended season. The staff was enhancing year-over-year each in variety of ACC Championship scorers and common rewrites of the college file books. The trustworthy will now hope that the hiring of Torres, one of many few American swimmers whose stardom transcends the game, will resume that upward momentum.
For UMass, the outcomes are flipped from what may be anticipated – the UMass males had been 2nd finally yr’s Atlantic 10 Championship meet out of 8 groups, whereas the ladies had been seventh out of 11 squads – and misplaced a lot of high quality swimmers to commencement.
Girls’s Recap
Highlights:
- A younger Boston Faculty dash group leads a sweep of the freestyle occasions for the Golden Eagles.
- Amanda Calderon had a breakthrough win within the 100 fly after a really quick relay cut up.
The UMass 200 medley relay was their power final season, however these had been veteran relays. Three of the 4 legs of their squad that positioned third at ACCs have graduated, however none-the-less the Minutewomen roared to a tone-setting two-plus second margin of victory, touching in 1:46.14. That’s thanks partially to the lone returning leg Lindsay Burbage, who cut up 28.94 on the breaststroke leg to open her sophomore season. Coupled with fifth yr Ashley Calderon on the fly leg (25.14 – 1.4 second margin on BC), UMass opened up a 3 second lead after three legs earlier than giving some again on the freestyle leg to BC freshman Lizzie Olpihant (24.04).
The margin may not inform the total story, although – BC’s finest back-half was truly on their second relay, which completed 4th. That features one other freshman, Lauren Lee, who anchored in 23.96 because the Golden Eagles rebuild with a younger group of swimmers who resemble their coach Torres, a sprinter.
It was that younger dash group that actually took management for the BC girls in the course of the meet. Lee and Oliphant went 1-2 within the 50 free in 23.84 and 24.00, each instances quicker than the staff’s finest of their opener within the 2022-2023 season; whereas Oliphant (52.59) and sophomore Madison Connor (53.35) went 1-2 within the 100 free just a few occasions later.
Lee added a win within the 200 free in 1:54.52. With senior Megan Kramer sweeping the five hundred free (5:10.87) and 1000 free (10:35.92), plus a meet-concluding win within the 200 free relay (1:37.47 – Oliphant anchored in 23.75), the Eagles swept the day’s freestyle races.
The UMass girls, in the meantime, made their hay and stored the meet shut through their success in stroke occasions and diving.
That included the aforementioned Calderone main a 1-2 end within the 100 fly, touching in 56.45 – greater than two seconds forward of Boston Faculty’s prime finisher. That’s quicker than she was in a twin meet all of final season by half-a-second as she appears to maneuver into the scoring finals on the Atlantic 10 Championships following a Seventeenth-place end final yr.
Her freshman teammate Hannah Schoenauer gained the 200 fly in 2:06.78 and sophomore Lindsay Burbage gained the 100 breast in 1:04.01.
UMass dominated girls’s diving, scoring most factors towards simply 1 diver for Boston Faculty. In whole, UMass had a 32-4 diving benefit, together with a 1-meter win from freshman Danielle Guerin, who might present the staff a lift in an occasion the place they didn’t rating at A-10s final yr.
Males’s Recap
Highlights:
- Freshman PJ Nolan kicked off his Boston Faculty profession with a win within the 200 free in 1:41.67.
- UMass’ Sammy Quigg swept the dash free occasions in 20.34/45.24, respectively.
The UMass males began out the session with a win within the 200 medley relay thanks largely to a 21.99 butterfly cut up from senior Grant Beebe, however from there-out it was all Golden Eagles. BC gained 10 out of 14 swimming occasions on the day.
That included extra optimistic outcomes for the freestyle crew, together with an early win from freshman PJ Nolan within the 200 free.
Nolan, the staff’s prime recruit this offseason, dominated the race, touching in a profitable time of 1:41.67. That was virtually three seconds away from UMass sophomore Cole Brooks, who was 2nd in 1:44.50.
For Nolan, that was the most effective time he has been exterior of a giant championship meet, displaying off large progress in his new coaching residence.
Junior Ben Huffman put in the same degree of dominance within the 500 free (4:43.19) and 1000 free (9:48.45), profitable the previous by six-and-a-half seconds.
It was not a freestyle sweep for the BC males: UMass junior Sammy Quigg swept the sprints with a 20.34 within the 50 free and 45.24 within the 100 free, in each circumstances holding off a pack of Golden Eagles behind him. Quigg completed seventh and 4th within the 50 and 100 free, respectively, finally yr’s A-10 Championships.
The final time BC was within the ACC Championships, Jack Doyle was the staff’s prime scorer, because of a thirteenth place end within the 400 IM. Even after a yr with out collegiate competitors (he raced in just a few membership meets in lengthy course), Doyle remained one of many staff’s prime performers, sweeping the breaststroke occasions in instances of 57.28 and a couple of:07.79, respectively.
He additionally touched comfortably first within the 200 IM in 1:51.4, however was disqualified.
Boston Faculty’s males completed the day with a win within the 200 free relay in essentially the most thrilling swim of the week. There, Luke Condon held off Quigg for a win in 1:24.33, giving them .18 seconds of margin over UMass.
UMass once more swept the diving occasions, although Boston Faculty was extra aggressive on the lads’s facet. UMass junior Andrew Bell gained each springboard competitions.
