WASHINGTON – Georgetown University men's and women's swimming & diving teams will welcome Johns Hopkins University and George Washington University to McCarthy Pool this weekend to open action in 2022. The Hoyas will square off with the Blue Jays on Friday, Jan. 21, at 4 p.m., followed by a date with the Colonials on Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m.
"We're excited to get back to competition," Head Coach
Jack Leavitt said. "It's been since before Thanksgiving that we've got up and raced. We have trained really well over the break and I'm excited to see what both teams can do this weekend."
ABOUT THE HOYAS
- GU is coming off a strong fall slate that saw the men's team go undefeated with a 5-0 record and the women's team string together a pair of victories.
- In their last meet of 2021, the men's team finished the Terrier Invitational with 1,433 total points for a second-place finish, sitting behind Boston College with 1,552 points. The women's squad matched UMass for fourth place with 805.5 points.
- Drew Carbone snagged BIG EAST Swimming & Diving Athlete of the Week after a successful weekend that featured three individual wins, including an NCAA "B" qualifying time and pool record in the 200 back with a time of 1:44.85.
- Women's Erin Hood smashed a pair of records, logging a 4:21.8 in the 400 IM preliminaries to break Phoebe Slaughter's 2018 record by over two seconds and earning first place in the 200 IM with a time of 2:02.39 to surpass Laine Morgan's 2017 mark by 0.39 seconds.
- Men's Michael Baldini broke his own program record with a time of 48.89 in the 100 fly, beating his previous mark set at the 2020 BIG EAST Championships by 0.03 seconds.
JOHNS HOPKINS AT A GLANCE
- The Blue Jays men's team boasts a 5-2 record through their season while the women's squad picked up their lone win against New York University on Nov. 20.
- The men's side crushed Bucknell in their last outing, knocking off the Bison, 166-95, at home on Jan. 8.
- Seniors Sydney Okubo and Kristen Alicea-Jorgensen picked up individual wins in the 100 back and 50 free, respectively, against Bucknell on the women's side.
GEORGE WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE
- The Colonials will make their 2022 debut on Saturday, having last competed against Navy on Dec. 10.
- Against Navy, men's swimmer Durde Matic broke 28-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps pool record in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 46.14 after breaking the conference record a week earlier.
- Women's diver Dara Reyblat also broke the school's platform mark with a score of 213.83 against Navy.
ON DECK
The Hoyas wrap up the regular season at McCarthy Pool with Senior Day against conference foe Seton Hall on Saturday, Jan. 29 at 1 p.m., before heading to the BIG EAST Championships in New York (Feb. 23-26).
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All remaining Georgetown men's and women's swimming & diving home meets are currently scheduled to take place at McCarthy Pool. All Georgetown University indoor on-campus intercollegiate athletics events will be completed with no fans in attendance for the month of January due to the emergence and rapid spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the Washington, D.C., region, across the country, and globally.
