BUFFALO,
NY – The University
at Buffalo men’s
and women’s swimming and diving team started their season by
hosting the Western New York Invite this afternoon at UB’s
Alumni
Arena Natatorium. There was no team scoring, but Binghamton, Canisius,
Niagara and St. Bonaventure all competed in the event.
Brynn
Marecki
The women won twelve out of
fifteen events with Brynn
Marecki leading the way, winning
three events for Buffalo. Marecki
won the 200 IM (2:11.71), 100 breaststroke (1:07.03) and 200
breaststroke (2:24.15). Jordan
Deren and Caitlin
Reilly each won a pair of
events, with Deren taking first in the
500 freestyle (5:08.47) and 1000 freestyle (10:34.95) and Reilly
winning the 200 backstroke (2:10.36) and 100 backstroke (1:00.18).
On the men’s side, Zach
Ruske picked up a win in the 200
backstroke (1:54.36), while
freshman Josh
Meints won the 100 breaststroke
(1:01.50). Meints was followed
close behind by fellow freshman Christian
Muller, who took second place in
the 100 breaststroke, finishing
with a time of 1:01.86. Simon
Proudfoot added a first-place
finish, swimming to a time of 47.63
in the 100 freestyle. In addition to Meints and Muller, the Bulls
debuted seven other newcomers, including Paul
Garman, Matt
Hogan, Zach
Rice, Matt
Schwippert, Ryan
Smrekar, Curtis
Williams and Cory
Zorsch.
The Bulls will have their
first dual meet of the season on Friday,
October 23 when they host Duquesne. The meet is set for 4:00 pm at
Alumni Arena Natatorium.
