Women’s
200 medley relay team of Ballard, Marecki, Palma and
Simmons sets meet and pool record
AKRON,
OH – The
University at Buffalo men’s and women’s swimming
and diving team wrapped up day two of the Zippy Invite tonight with
the women’s team moving up two places to sit in third place,
while the men’s team holds steady in second place.
Brynn
Marecki
The 200 medley relay of Jessica
Ballard, Brynn
Marecki,
Sam
Palma and Caroline
Simmons started the night off
right with a first-place finish, earning a Zippy Invite and Ocasek
Natatorium record in a time 1:44.92. Alie
Schirmers took second place in
the 400 IM in a season-best time 4:31.73. Palma picked up third-place
points in the 100 butterfly in a season-best time 56.61. The 200
freestyle was highlighted by a fourth-place finish from Jordan
Deren (1:52.82) and a sixth-place finish from Simmons (1:53.78).
Marecki stole the show in the 100
breaststroke, taking first place with a season-best time of 1:04.07 and
Ballard wrapped up the women’s individual events with an
eighth-place finish in the 100 backstroke (59.28). The Bulls closed out
the night with a fifth-place finish in the 800 freestyle relay,
finishing in a time of 7:46.74.
Matt
Schwippert
The men opened the night with
a third-place spot in the 200 medley relay as the team of Matt
Schwippert, Josh
Meints, Cory
Zorsch and Chad
Miller finished in a time of
1:34.03. In the men’s 400 IM, Zach
Ruske placed fifth (4:10.73),
with teammate Connor
Vander Zalm finishing close
behind in sixth place (4:11.53). Zorsch took away an eighth-place
finish in the 100 butterfly, finishing in a season-best time 51.51,
while Simon
Proudfoot won the consolation
heat of the 200 freestyle in a time of 1:43.94. Meints won the
consolation heat of the 100 breaststroke with a season-best time of
59.37, as well. Schwippert took second in the 100 backstroke with a
time of 51.35, followed closely by Andrew
Tamchyna, who finished third in
a time of 51.62.The men’s team finished out the night with a
third-place finish in the 800 freestyle relay, capturing a time of
6:56.41.
Meili
Carpenter
In Saturday’s
diving, Meili
Carpenter won the three-meter
event with a score of 316.65, giving her a sweep of the diving events
for the weekend. Ursula
Jeske earned 214.90 points in
the event, finishing eighth.The men’s divers kept the success
going as Kenny
Rhoades won the men’s
one-meter event with a score of 274.65, and teammate Colin
Patrican took second, finishing
with a score of 256.40, giving the Bulls a clean sweep of the diving
events for the day.
