2024 CSCAA Faculty Open Water Nationwide Championship
The 2024 CSCAA 5K Nationwide Championships made a much-anticipated comeback on December 15 at Florida Worldwide College in Biscayne Bay. Final 12 months’s occasion was canceled because of inclement climate, however this 12 months’s version greater than made up for it. To make issues much more thrilling, the highest 5 finishers in each the lads’s and ladies’s 5K races will earn spots on the 2025 U.S. Open Water Nationwide Championships in Sarasota, Florida. The 2024 CSCAA 5K Nationals returned with thrilling races in Biscayne Bay, the place prime 5 finishers earned spots on the 2025 U.S. Open Water Nationals.
The day began brilliant and early at 8:00 a.m. with the lads’s 5K race, the place Australia’s Ben Wainman placed on a clinic in open-water swimming. Representing Saginaw Valley State College, Wainman stormed to victory with a time of 1:00:41.97, ending a whopping 28.2 seconds forward of his closest competitor, Max Vega Cuevas from Texas A&M College, who clocked in at 1:01:10.17, simply beating out third place finisher Connor Fry (1:01:10.88) from the College of South Carolina. Trey Dickey from Texas A&M College positioned 4th with a time of 1:01:12.82, and Jacob Hamlin of the College of Tampa rounded out the highest 5 in 1:01:13.10.
Males’s Particular person 5K Outcomes
- Ben Wainman – 1:00:41.97 (Saginaw Valley State College)
- Max Vega Cuevas – 1:01:10.17 (Texas A&M College)
- Connor Fry – 1:01:10.88 (College of South Carolina)
- Trey Dickey – 1:01:12.82 (Texas A&M College)
- Jacob Hamlin – 1:01:13.10 (College of Tampa)
The ladies’s 5K kicked off at 10:00 a.m., with Ella Dyson from Rice College defending her title from 2022. Dyson, who hails from Marlow, England, cruised to the win with a time of 1:03:31.40. Miriam Frass from Youngstown State College completed 2nd in 1:06:40.41, adopted carefully by Villanova College’s Marlene Blanke in third with a time of 1:06:41.78. Nora Fluck from the College of South Carolina secured 4th place in 1:06:41.80, and Rice College’s Ava S. Hamblett accomplished the highest 5 with a time of 1:07:04.17.
Ladies’s Particular person 5K Outcomes
- Ella Dyson – 1:03:31.40 (Rice College)
- Miriam Frass – 1:06:40.41 (Youngstown State College)
- Marlene Blanke – 1:06:41.78 (Villanova College)
- Nora Fluck – 1:06:41.80 (College of South Carolina)
- Ava S. Hamblett – 1:07:04.17 (Rice College)
Notably, the lads’s prime 2 finishers, Wainman and Vega Cuevas, represented Australia and Mexico, respectively. On the ladies’s aspect, 4 of the highest 5 finishers hailed from exterior the U.S.: Dyson represented Nice Britain, Frass and Blanke have been from Germany, and Fluck got here from Hungary. Ava Hamblett, from Orange, Connecticut, was the one U.S.-based swimmer within the girls’s prime 5. Just like final month’s MPSF Championship, the place all the males’s prime 3 finishers have been worldwide, it stays unclear whether or not U.S. Swimming will lengthen bids to worldwide swimmers for the 2025 U.S. Open Water Nationals.
Males’s Staff Outcomes
- College of South Carolina: 3:03:58
- Denver College: 3:06:06
- College of Cincinnati: 3:08:50
Past particular person performances, the staff occasion introduced one other layer of competitors, with outcomes decided by the mixed instances of every college’s prime 3 finishers. The College of South Carolina claimed the lads’s staff title with standout performances by Connor Fry (1:01:10.88), Ryan Turner (1:01:21.00), and Umut Yildirim (1:01:26.00), combining for a complete time of three:03:58. Following carefully, Denver College secured 2nd place, with Connor Hughes (1:01:17), Joe Hancock (1:01:21), and Will Melsha (1:03:28) combining for a time of three:06:06. The College of Cincinnati rounded out the rostrum, as Ido Gal (1:01:17), Max Murray (1:03:34), and Brady Beyer (1:03:59) posted a collective 3:08:50.
Ladies’s Staff Outcomes
- Rice College: 3:17:44
- College of South Carolina: 3:22:16
- Purdue College: 3:23:38
On the ladies’s aspect, Rice College secured the staff victory, led by Ella Dyson (1:03:31.40), Ava Hamblett (1:07:04.17), and Amelia Kane (1:07:07.00), ending with a mixed time of three:17:44. The College of South Carolina got here in 2nd place with robust contributions from Nora Fluck (1:06:42), Sianna Savarda (1:07:15), and Emma Reiser (1:07:32), combining for 3:22:16. Purdue College adopted in third, powered by Adele Sands (1:07:20), Reagan Mattice (1:07:22), and Caitlin M. Hurley (1:07:34), ending with a complete time of three:23:38.
