{"id":89217,"date":"2026-01-05T02:16:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89217\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T02:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T02:16:25","slug":"hokies-sweep-queens-to-kick-off-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/89217\/","title":{"rendered":"Hokies sweep Queens to kick off 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHRISTIANSBURG, Va.\u2014 The Hokies kicked off the new year with a sweep over Queens, with the women earning a 159-105 win and the men taking a 147-110 victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/carmen-weiler-sastre\" title=\"Carmen Weiler Sastre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carmen Weiler Sastre<\/a> logged two individual first-place finishes in the 100 back and 200 back, and contributed to two relay first-place finishes. <a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/brendan-whitfield\" title=\"Brendan Whitfield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Whitfield<\/a> posted three individual first-place finishes in the 50 free, 100 free and 200 free.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>First Place Finishers:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>400 Medley Relay: <br \/>Weiler Sastre, Santos, Meneses Kovacs, Claesson, 3:34.94<br \/>Roose, Martin, Hayon, George Mathew, 3:09.43<\/p>\n<p>1000 Free: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/lee-naber\" title=\"Lee Naber\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lee Naber<\/a>, 9:09.59<\/p>\n<p>200 Free: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/chiara-klein\" title=\"Chiara Klein\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chiara Klein<\/a>, 1:48.21<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/brendan-whitfield\" title=\"Brendan Whitfield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Whitfield<\/a>, 1:34.85<\/p>\n<p>100 Back:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/carmen-weiler-sastre\" title=\"Carmen Weiler Sastre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carmen Weiler Sastre<\/a>, 52.2<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/levente-balogh\" title=\"Levente Balogh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Levente Balogh<\/a>, 47.55<\/p>\n<p>100 Breast:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/emily-santos\" title=\"Emily Santos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Santos<\/a>, 1:02.11<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/eli-martin\" title=\"Eli Martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Martin<\/a>, 53.59<\/p>\n<p>200 Fly:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/julia-murphy\" title=\"Julia Murphy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Julia Murphy<\/a>, 1:59.71<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/carl-bloebaum\" title=\"Carl Bloebaum\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carl Bloebaum<\/a>, 1:47.35<\/p>\n<p>50 Free:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/emily-claesson\" title=\"Emily Claesson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Claesson<\/a>, 22.85<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/brendan-whitfield\" title=\"Brendan Whitfield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Whitfield<\/a>, 19.47<\/p>\n<p>100 Free:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/emily-claesson\" title=\"Emily Claesson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Claesson<\/a>, 49.39<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/brendan-whitfield\" title=\"Brendan Whitfield\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Whitfield<\/a>, 42.92<\/p>\n<p>200 Back: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/carmen-weiler-sastre\" title=\"Carmen Weiler Sastre\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carmen Weiler Sastre<\/a>, 1:54.38<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/andy-roose\" title=\"Andy Roose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Roose<\/a>, 1:43.31<\/p>\n<p>200 Breast:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/emily-santos\" title=\"Emily Santos\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Santos<\/a>, 2:15.51<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/eli-martin\" title=\"Eli Martin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Martin<\/a>, 1:57.38<\/p>\n<p>500 Free:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/kate-anderson\" title=\"Kate Anderson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Anderson<\/a>, 4:51.27<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/jakub-poliacik\" title=\"Jakub Poliacik\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakub Poliacik<\/a>, 4:25.05<\/p>\n<p>100 Fly:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/athena-meneses-kovacs\" title=\"Athena Meneses Kovacs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Athena Meneses Kovacs<\/a>, 54.01<br \/>Will Hayon, 46.18<\/p>\n<p>200 IM:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/amanda-barnard\" title=\"Amanda Barnard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amanda Barnard<\/a>, 2:01.13<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/clem-camacho\" title=\"Clem Camacho\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clem Camacho<\/a>, 1:47.12\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>200 Free Relay: <br \/>Weiler Sastre, Claesson, Gurinovics, Murphy, 1:31.28\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1m: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/grace-austin\" title=\"Grace Austin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Austin<\/a>, 259.20<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/nathan-cox\" title=\"Nathan Cox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Cox<\/a>, 347.55<\/p>\n<p>3m:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/grace-austin\" title=\"Grace Austin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Austin<\/a>, 284.10<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hokiesports.com\/sports\/swimming-diving\/roster\/player\/nathan-cox\" title=\"Nathan Cox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Cox<\/a>, 345.00<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Up Next:<\/p>\n<p>The Hokies travel to Columbia, S.C. to take on South Carolina on Jan. 10.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHRISTIANSBURG, Va.\u2014 The Hokies kicked off the new year with a sweep over Queens, with the women 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