Emory (DIII) vs. Georgia
- February 1, 2025
- Gabrielsen Natatorium — Athens, GA
- 25 Yards (SCY)
- Scores:
- Girls: Georgia, 191 def. Emory, 102
- Males: Georgia, 198 def. Emory 80
- Full Outcomes
Males’s Recap
Contemporary off setting an NCAA and American document within the 200 butterfly final week, Luca Urlando stored rolling as Georgia defeated the DIII powerhouse Emory on Senior Day, 198-80. Urlando switched up his occasion lineup however nonetheless broke a document, taking down Ryan Murphy’s pool document from 2015 with a lifetime better of 1:38.18.
Urlando is the NCAA document holder within the 100 backstroke, however the 200 again isn’t an occasion he’s raced usually throughout his collegiate profession earlier than this season. That is Urlando’s third 200 backstroke lifetime better of the season; he’d beforehand swum 1:39-lows twice throughout the first semester (1:39.39, 1:39.12) in his first 200 backstroke swims since 2019. This time, an NCAA ‘A’ lower strikes him to 3rd all-time in Georgia historical past and to fourth within the league this season.
Talking of occasions that Urlando doesn’t race fairly often; he received the 50 freestyle in a lifetime finest 19.34. This swim marked the primary time Urlando raced the person 50 freestyle throughout his collegiate profession. He took on considered one of his bread-and-butter occasions, the 200 IM, to spherical out his particular person occasion slate, which he received in 1:42.20.
Urlando additionally led off Georgia’s ‘A’ 200 medley relay in 20.55. He, Kristian Pitshugin (23.42), Wesley Ng (20.29), and Reese Branzell (19.29) swam a season-best 1:23.55 to win the 200 medley relay, incomes the Dawgs’ ‘A’ lower within the occasion.
Georgia received each occasion in its Senior Day sweep of the Eagles. Jake Magahey was proper on his season finest to win the 200 freestyle, posting 1:33.05. Tomas Koski cruised to the five hundred freestyle win in 4:15.30, and freshman Tane Bidois picked up his first collegiate win with a 44.07 within the 100 freestyle.
Emory’s high finisher of the day was senior Liyang Solar, who was the lone male Eagle to the touch 2nd on the day in a person occasion. Solar, who ranks third within the Division III 200 breaststroke season ranks (1:57.75), put in a late cost to shut the hole to Arie Voloschin within the 200 breaststroke. Solar ran out of room to trace Voloschin down however took second in 1:58.71, .23 seconds behind the Dawg.
Freshman Zachary Spicer rattled Emory’s 200 backstroke program document. He swam a lifetime finest 1:45.90, lacking Sven Becker’s mark from 2022 by .56 seconds. The swim chopped 1.15 seconds from Spicer’s lifetime finest as he took Third within the occasion. Spicer is now Third within the season’s DIII rankings behind Eric Lundgren and Teddy McQuaid. Senior Jeff Echols grabbed Third within the 100/200 fly, clocking 48.25/1:48.86. Henri Bonnault and Dylan Yin added Third-place finishes of their very own, with Bonnault clocking 54.00 within the 100 breast and Yin 20.39 within the 50 freestyle. Notably, the Eagles have been with out reigning NCAA DIII 400 IM champion Crow Thorsen, who hasn’t raced for the reason that Eagles’ midseason invite.
Girls’s Recap
Georgia was equally dominant on the ladies’s facet of the meet, successful 191-102. Regardless of operating away with the win, the Georgia girls didn’t clean the Eagles in occasion wins as the boys’s staff did. Emory’s Megan Jungers bought her hand on the wall first within the 100 backstroke, swimming a season-best 54.83. Nevertheless, the spotlight of Emory’s meet got here within the 200 IM. Freshman Allison Greeneway broke the varsity document within the occasion for the third time this season, clocking a 2:00.28 to put 2nd, four-hundredths behind Georgia’s Marie Landreneau.
Greeneway’s 2:00.28 betters her earlier college document, a 2:00.79 swum on the Denison Invitational, by .51 seconds. She first took over the document with a 2:01.23 on the Emory Fall Invitational. As she continues to inch nearer to the two:00 barrier, she’s now the quickest girl in Division III this season by over two seconds. Kenyon’s Jennah Fadely, the newly minted DIII document holder within the 100 breast, sits second in 2:02.36.
Helena Jones, Olivia Dellatorre, and Ieva Maluka led the day’s efforts for the Dawgs, every claiming two particular person occasion wins. Jones received the 100/200 freestyle. First, she claimed victory within the 200 freestyle with a 1:45.80. Then, she edged out 50 freestyle winner Katie Belle Sikes within the 100 freestyle, 48.89 to 49.17. Dellatorre swept the butterfly occasions, clocking 53.53/2:00.48.
Maluka, a switch from Arizona State, continues to enhance in a Georgia cap. She swam a lifetime finest to win the 100 breaststroke in 1:01.34, then accomplished the breaststroke sweep in 2:11.67. This was Maluka’s second official time swimming the 100 breaststroke; she clocked 1:04.51 on the 2022 ASU Intrasquad meet.
Dune Coetzee received the five hundred freestyle for Georgia, clocking a season-best 4:39.89. Coetze is a part of a powerful mid/distance freestyle crew for Georgia. That is her first time breaking 4:40 within the 500 freestyle this season. She’s the twenty eighth girl to crack that barrier this season, highlighting the space renaissance girls’s collegiate swimming is present process.
Up Subsequent
Georgia and Emory have wrapped up the common season. Georgia will ship a handful of swimmers to the Auburn First Probability Meet subsequent weekend, earlier than internet hosting the SEC Championships from Feb. 18-22. In the meantime, Emory now turns its consideration to the UAA Championships from Feb. 12-15.
