Swimming & Diving Splits With Johns Hopkins

WASHINGTON – Georgetown University's men's and women's swimming & diving teams split with the Johns Hopkins University Blue Jays at McCarthy Pool on Friday. The women's squad moved to 3-3 on the season with a 153-140 victory while the men fell to 5-1 with a 170-124 setback.

"It felt great to be back at Yates competing," Head Coach Jack Leavitt said. "I'm really proud of the effort and our team taking advantage of the opportunity to compete while they're beat up from training. Looking forward to getting back after it tomorrow against GW."

HOYA HIGHLIGHTS

GU won 12 events, placed second in 17 and added 20 third-place times on the day.
Women's Erin Hood captured three first-place finishes on the day, earning top times in the 100 breast (1:05.79), 200 breast (2:19.94) and 200 IM (2:05.15).
The Hoyas opened the meet with three-straight first-place marks as the men's and women's 200 medley relay teams and Corey Moon (1,000 free) beat out the competition.
Grace Chen and Kylie Stronko went 1-2 in the 100 back after Matthew Braviak and Brett Sherman secured third in the 1,000 free and 200 free, respectively.
Drew Carbone captured first in the 100 back, finishing four seconds ahead of the competition with a time of 50.84 while Liam Ryan finished in third.
In the 100 back, Carson Temple and Ansen Meyer went 2-3 before Genevieve Youngman and Michael Wheeler earned second and third in the 200 fly, respectively.
Lily Gremmels picked up a second-place finish in the 50 free while men's Sean Devlin scored a third-place mark in the same event.
Women's 1m divers Emilie Ginovker, Wynter Bramao and Sara Warm swept the podium, with Warm posting a season-best 210.15. The trio also podiumed the 3m dive with Bramao earning the top spot, followed by Warm and Ginokver.
Men's 1m divers Kyle Maziarz, Joseph Hofman and Charlie Reichle also successfully swept the top three spots in their event.
Men's Jack Muratori and Sean Percin went 2-3 in the 100 free before Stronko placed second in the 200 back and the duo of Carbone and Ryan secured the last two podium spots in the same event.
After women's Hood and Emily Giesler finished 1-3 in the 200 back, Temple (200 breast), Wheeler (500 free) and Moon (500 free) each earned second-place marks while Ryan Evangelista placed third (500 free).
Youngman edged out a win in the 100 fly while teammate Gabriella Meringolo earned the final podium spot.
Following a second-place finish from Baldini (100 fly) and a 2-3 punch from Jack Brearton and Carbone (200 IM), the men's and women's 200 free relay teams finished the meet with second-best times.

ON DECK
GU will return to McCarthy Pool tomorrow afternoon against George Washington, beginning at 1 p.m. The Hoyas wrap up the regular season at home 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.

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