PJ Foy Returns as North Carolina Sweeps Queens<\/p>\n
PJ Foy returned after missing last season due to injury with a win in the 50 freestyle as North Carolina swept Queens University on Friday.<\/p>\n
The men\u2019s team claimed a 149-108 win, while the women prevailed, 156-101.<\/p>\n
Foy went 19.65, edging Queens\u2019 Nien Levy by .06 seconds for the win. Foy was also part of the exhibitioned UNC A relay with Sean Setzer, Nate Holm and Martin Kartavi that went 1:17.27 to set the Queens pool record, downing the mark set in 2025 by Virginia Tech by more than a half second. Foy also helped the 200 medley relay win in 1:25.45 (Colin Whelehan, Setzer, Kartavi).<\/p>\n
Whelehan won the 100 backstroke in 47.90 and the 200 in 1:45.44. Ben Delmar\u2019s 53.01 edged Setzer in the 100 breaststroke, then went 1:46.19 to dominate the 200 individual medley. Sean Huggins bested Seb Lunak to win the 200 free in 1:38.23.<\/p>\n
Freshman Blake Hill claimed the 200 fly in 1:46.61, Josh Parent won the 500 free and Xavier Ruiz claimed the 200 breast.<\/p>\n
Queens picked up wins via Akos Horvath in the 1,000 free, TJ Spokas in the 100 free and Emil Harlen in the 100 fly in a 1-2 with teammate Brett Bailey.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s meet, North Carolina came away with three pool records. Mary Macauley clocked in at 1:57.86 to down the mark in the 200 fly. Lillian Sawyer won the 100 fly in 53.35, and Samantha Armand\u2019s 1:01.34 claimed the 100 breast mark.<\/p>\n
Maren Conze paced the Tar Heels with a pair of distance wins, going 10:01.97 in the 1,000 free and 4:51.98. She was also third in the 200 free, with Sawyer second.<\/p>\n
Freshmen Kenzie Sellars and Cate Pawlaski notched wins. Sellars went 23.25, .03 up on teammate Eden Goettsch to win the 50 free. Pawlaski edged Armand by a half-second to win the 200 breast in 2:15.61. Macauley also posted the fastest time in the 200 IM at 2:01.51. Tom Mienis did the backstroke double, winning the 100 in 54.98 and the 200 in 1:57.83.<\/p>\n
Queens\u2019 Madeline Foster won the 200 free in 1:48.06, and teammate Maren Patterson claimed the 100 free in 50.46. Foster was second in the 100 fly in 54.17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PJ Foy Returns as North Carolina Sweeps Queens PJ Foy returned after missing last season due to injury…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[133777,133778,133779,133780,133781,133782,9,24,1064,63,133783,122,124,123,133784],"class_list":["post-359681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-acc-swimming","tag-blake-hill","tag-colin-whelehan","tag-lillian-sawyer","tag-maren-conze","tag-mary-macauley","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-north-carolina","tag-nyc","tag-pj-foy","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-samantha-armand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359681","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=359681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}