{"id":111124,"date":"2026-01-24T15:59:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111124\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T15:59:29","slug":"runnin-bulldogs-fall-to-queens-in-friday-morning-asun-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111124\/","title":{"rendered":"Runnin&#8217; Bulldogs Fall to Queens in Friday Morning ASUN Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                 CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8211; The Gardner-Webb swimming team returned to the pool on Friday morning at Queens, falling in both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s ASUN action<\/p>\n<p>Despite the team loss, there were some good individual performances for Gardner-Webb, including that of junior <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/luke-weber\/10572\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10572\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Weber<\/a>. Weber won the men&#8217;s 1650 yard freestyle by four seconds, posting a time of 15:39.84. Teammate freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/victor-cury\/11336\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11336\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Cury<\/a> was third in the event in 15:50.17<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/jillian-hawkins\/10581\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10581\" target=\"_blank\">Jillian Hawkins<\/a> posted a fourth place run in the women&#8217;s 200 yard freestyle. Hawkins finished with a solid time of 1:56.75 to finish as the highest GWU finisher. Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/sara-michael-jann\/10554\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10554\" target=\"_blank\">Sara-Michael Jann<\/a> was fifth in 1:59.03 while freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/madison-richardson\/11340\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11340\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Richardson<\/a> was sixth in 1:59.09<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s 200 yard freestyle, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/manuel-brandner\/10576\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10576\" target=\"_blank\">Manuel Brandner<\/a> placed sixth for the Runnin&#8217; Bulldogs, finishing with a time of 1:41.61<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s 100 yard backstroke was one of the best events of the day for Gardner-Webb. Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/hannah-routh\/10564\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10564\" target=\"_blank\">Hannah Routh<\/a> was on the podium in 57.40 seconds, finishing third. Meanwhile, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/kaitlyn-estes\/10580\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10580\" target=\"_blank\">Kaitlyn Estes<\/a> was fifth in 57.77 seconds, and junior Bella Palazzo was eighth in 59.04 seconds<\/p>\n<p>Gardner-Webb finished as high as fourth place in both the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s 200 yard medley relays. On the men&#8217;s side, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/carter-redelman\/11345\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11345\" target=\"_blank\">Carter Redelman<\/a>, senior <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/justin-bender\/10544\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10544\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Bender<\/a>, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/jacob-jensen\/10555\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10555\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Jensen<\/a> and sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/luke-wesson\/11346\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11346\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Wesson<\/a> finished in 1:29.59. On the women&#8217;s side, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/slawka-ndubuisi\/10561\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10561\" target=\"_blank\">Slawka Ndubuisi<\/a>, freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/jenna-valentine\/11342\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11342\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Valentine<\/a>, sophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/gwusports.com\/sports\/mens-swimming-and-diving\/roster\/dakota-townley\/10585\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10585\" target=\"_blank\">Dakota Townley<\/a> and Richardson posted a time of 1:46.38<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nGardner-Webb is back at Bost Pool on January 31st at 12:00 pm, taking on Davidson for Senior Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8211; The Gardner-Webb swimming team returned to the pool on Friday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-111124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-queens","12":"tag-queens-headlines","13":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}