Queens and FAU Men Tie for ASUN Men\u2019s Team Title; Delaware Claims Women\u2019s Crown<\/p>\n
The Queens University of Charlotte and Florida Atlantic University men tied to share the ASUN Conference championship over the weekend, while the University of Delaware clinched their first women\u2019s conference championship. Delaware finished third on the men\u2019s side. Florida Gulf Coast University and Queens placed second and third on the women\u2019s side, respectively.<\/p>\n
Wednesday<\/p>\n
Florida Gulf Coast began the meet in historic fashion, setting an ASUN record in the 200 medley relay. The team of Izzy Ackley, Cassie Bauer, Libby Russum\u00a0and Mia Burke finished in 1:36.80. The Queens men made sure to keep the energy going, setting a record in their 200 medley relay, with a team of Pablo Ortega, Cal Bartone, Emil Harlem\u00a0and Nien Levy finishing in 1:24.34.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The conference\u2019s youth made a strong first impression, as Queens freshman Leonzie Tenzer (4:46.80) and Florida Atlantic sophomore James Shevchenko (4:22.74) were victorious in the 500 freestyle. Queens then picked up two more wins, as Abigail Zboran (1:59.84) and Matheus Przewalla (1:45.65) were victorious in the 200 I.M. Russum (22.50)\u00a0got the Eagles on the board with a win in the 50 free, while FAU\u2019s Daniel Laureyssens (19.43) took victory on the men\u2019s side. Georgia State\u2019s Karlee Wells placed first in the women\u2019s 3-meter diving with a score of 292.05.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Thursday<\/p>\n
The University of Delaware started off the day with a statement, as a team of Angi Ragazzoni, Bri Cottingham, Victoria Novinskiy\u00a0and Judy Liu finished in 3:36.28 to earn the program\u2019s first win. This year marked the Blue Hens\u2019 first in the conference, moving from the Colonial Athletic Association. Queens continued its record-setting ways on the men\u2019s side, as a team of Caden Fritz, Bartone, Harlem, and Daniel Meszaros won in 3:07.13 in the 400 medley relay.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Blue Hens continued their strong day with senior Victoria Novinskiy (51.92) and sophomore Kade Snyder (46.27) prevailing in the 100 butterfly. \u00a0Freshman Piper Price added another win for the Blue Hens in the 400 I.M (4:15.97), while \u00a0Shevchenko took victory on the men\u2019s side (3:48.22). Delaware senior Angi Ragazzoni (1:48.41) continued the team\u2019s impressive night in the 200 free on the women\u2019s side, while Laureyssens (1:32.42) added another win on the men\u2019s side. Laureyssens\u2019 swim was a historic one, setting a new conference record. Blue Hen senior Alex Pastris scored a win in the women\u2019s 1-meter diving, with a score of 281.60. FAU\u2019s Rocco Simonelli won the men\u2019s 3-meter diving, scoring 368.90.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Friday<\/p>\n
Queens kicked off the day with an 800 freestyle relay win, as the team of Tenzer, Zboran, Sabina Kupcova\u00a0and Maddie Foster finished in 7:12.86. FAU took its first relay win on the men\u2019s side, with a team of Laureyssens, Simon Wright, Rush Clark\u00a0and Shevchenko finishing in 6:24.30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Florida Gulf Coast University got its first individual win of the meet as Ackley (53.04)\u00a0took the 100 back. Snyder (46.00) won the 100 back on the men\u2019s side for Delaware. The Blue Hens maintained their momentum into the 100 breast as senior Bri Cottingham (1:00.90) and senior Matvei Namakonov (51.51) earned wins. Delaware also won the 200 fly on the women\u2019s side as Novinskiy finished in 1:55.65 to clinch her second win of the meet. Nick Karaivanov (1:45.97) won the event on the men\u2019s side to give Queens University a great finish to the night. Queens\u2019 Juan Gonzalez placed first in the men\u2019s 1-meter diving, with a score of 303.30.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Saturday<\/p>\n
Florida Gulf Coast University nailed down a win in the 400 freestyle relay on Saturday. The team of Jasmin Kroll, Russum, Nadia Helm\u00a0and Leah Gentry-Tuney finished in 3:18.68. FAU took another relay win on the men\u2019s side as Leyton Roe, Laureyssans, Noah Reeves\u00a0and Shevchenko won in 2:52.64.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Delaware senior Lauren Hartzel earned crucial points for the team, winning the 1650 freestyle in 16:30.48. The Blue Hens stayed hot on the men\u2019s side, with freshman Cody Lonsberry winning the 1650 by just 0.10, finishing in 15:25.13. Florida Gulf Coast got its first win of the night as Kroll (49.41) won the 100 free for the women. Laureyssens was victorious on the men\u2019s side (42.59), his third win of the meet. Delaware\u2019s Ragazzoni (1:56.82) took the win in the 200 back while Agustin Orechia (1:43.15) eked out a victory on the men\u2019s side for Gardner-Webb. <\/p>\n
Florida Gulf Coast got a victory in the 200 breast as Aislyn Barnett (2:11.40) won on the women\u2019s side. Old Dominion closed out the night on a high note with Bryce Mortimer taking the team\u2019s lone win of the meet, finishing the 200 breast in 1:56.02. Florida Gulf Coast\u2019s Alexandra Anduezo finished first in the women\u2019s platform diving with a score of 220.95, while FAU\u2019s Trevor Kuhn placed first in the men\u2019s event with a score of 320.40.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Laureyssans was named the meet\u2019s Most Outstanding Swimmer on the men\u2019s side and Ragazzoni was Most Outstanding in the women\u2019s meet. Simonelli and Gonzalez tied for men\u2019s Most Outstanding Diver while Wells was named Most Outstanding Diver on the women\u2019s side. Queens\u2019 Akos Horvath was honored as men\u2019s Most Outstanding Rookie and Tenzer picked up the women\u2019s honor. Jeff Dugdale of Queens was the Men\u2019s Coach of the Year and Pablo Marmolejo of Delaware was the Women\u2019s Coach of the Year. Queens\u2019 Aaron Hintz was the Diving Coach of the Year for the men, and Florida Gulf Coast University\u2019s Chris Murray received the award for the women.<\/p>\n
ASUN Final Team Standings (Men)<\/p>\n
1. Queens University of Charlotte \u2013 782.5
1. Florida Atlantic University \u2013 782.5
3. University of Delaware \u2013 762
4. Gardner-Webb University \u2013 394
5. Old Dominion University \u2013 367
6. Bellarmine University \u2013 219<\/p>\n
ASUN Final Team Standings (Women)<\/p>\n
University of Delaware \u2013 1627
\nFlorida Gulf Coast University \u2013 1619
\nQueens University of Charlotte \u2013 1217.5
\nGeorgia Southern University \u2013 795.5
\nUniversity of North Carolina Asheville \u2013 768
\nUniversity of North Florida \u2013 648.5
\nOld Dominion University \u2013 563
\nGardner-Webb University \u2013 470.5
\nBellarmine University \u2013 286<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queens and FAU Men Tie for ASUN Men\u2019s Team Title; Delaware Claims Women\u2019s Crown The Queens University of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[49219,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-142214","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-queens","8":"tag-asun","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-nyc","12":"tag-queens","13":"tag-queens-headlines","14":"tag-queens-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142214","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=142214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}