EAST MEADOW, N.Y. – The Georgetown University's men's and women's swimming & diving teams medaled in four events, including a gold in the 800-yard free on day one of the BIG EAST Championships in East Meadow, New York on Wednesday evening.
"This is two years in the making and you saw a lot of passion and emotion tonight. The kids swam great, dropping a lot of time from their season-best and lifetime-best times. The guy's relay to come from behind and win the way they did was incredible. We are really pumped at where we are at right now and we're really excited about tomorrow morning." – Head Coach
Jack Leavitt
HOYA HIGHLIGHTS
- Georgetown leads the field with 252 combined points with the men's sitting in a tie with Seton Hall (72) for first and women ranking second (180).
- The men's 800-yard free team of Drew Carbone, Michael Wheeler, Will Barao and Brett Sherman stunned the competition, battling back from third place to pick up the winning time of 6:42.89. The group beat out Villanova by nearly two seconds.
- The women's 200 medley team of Grace Chen, Erin Hood, Isabella Wylie and Genevieve Youngman kicked off the night with a bronze medal, logging a time of 1:41.03 to set a program record.
- On the men's side, the 200 medley squad of Carbone, Michael Baldini, Sean Devlin and Ansen Meyer also scored a third-place time of 1:28.20.
- Emilie Ginovker earned the team's third bronze of the evening with a 3m dive score of 513.40.
- In the women's 800 free, the Hoyas battled and fell 0.53 seconds short of knocking UConn out of the top three with a time of 7:23.94.
UP NEXT
2022 BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT SCHEDULE
Thursday
500-yard freestyle, 200-yard IM, 50-yard freestyle, men's 1-meter diving, 200-yard freestyle relay
Friday
400-yard IM, 100-yard butterfly, 200-yard freestyle, 100-yard breaststroke, 100-yard backstroke, women's 1-meter diving, 400-yard medley relay
Saturday
1,650-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly, men's 3-meter diving, 400-yard freestyle relay.
For more information on the remaining three days, head to the
BIG EAST Championship Central.
