By Will Baxley on SwimSwam
George Washington vs Virginia Tech
October 3-4, 2025
Washington, DC
Outcomes:
Males – #17 Virginia Tech 218 – George Washington 81
Ladies – Virginia Tech 211 – George Washington 89
Full Outcomes
To kick off their season, the Virginia Tech Hokies travelled as much as Washington, D.C. to face the George Washington College. Tech captured decisive victories in each the lads’s and ladies’s meets, whereas the house crew GWU confirmed its distance prowess with a number of wins within the self-discipline. The Hokie males transfer to 9-3 all-time in opposition to the reigning A-10 champions, whereas Tech’s ladies advance to 10-2.
The boys’s 100 breaststroke ACC Champion, Eli Martin, confirmed no indicators of a sophomore stoop in his season debut. Martin received the 100 breaststroke in 55.03, the 200 breast in 2:00.28, and the 200 IM in 1:49.65. In comparison with this meet throughout his freshman season, his instances at present have been 1.2, 1.5, and 6 seconds quicker, respectively.
Along with his particular person slate of occasions, Martin kicked off the meet with a 200 medley relay win in 1:27.46. The Hokies tapped Brendan Whitfield, Martin, Landon Gentry, and William Hayon for this relay, so as.
Whitfield and Gentry left D.C. with two particular person wins every of their very own. Now a junior, Whitfield impressed with a 1:36.70 win instantly following the medley relay in addition to a 42.87 victory within the 100 free. This kick-off bodes nicely for the NCAA 100 free B-finalist, as his 200 free improved over two seconds from this meet final yr.
Gentry, in the meantime, picked up the butterfly sweep on the graduation of his senior season. The Virginia native stopped the clock in 47.86/1:47.43, a respective 2/4 second drop from his season-opening instances as a junior.
The lone freshman Hokie winner, Andy Roose touched first in each the 100 (49.18) and 200 (1:45.89) backstroke occasions.
Roose’ feminine counterpart for the meet was NCAA finalist Carmen Weiler, who additionally swept the backstroke occasions this weekend. Weiler, who enters her last yr as a Hokie, turned in a robust 53.60/1:55.65 combo individually. She additionally took half in each of Tech’s successful relays: the 200 medley (1:40.76) and 400 free (3:22.45).
Tech discovered its greatest particular person winner on the ladies’s aspect in junior Nichelly Lysy, who swept each breaststroke occasions and the 200 IM. She registered 1:02.23/2:15.79 within the breaststrokes and a pair of:02.75 within the IMs.
Emily Claesson’s dash free double reveals she’s going to as soon as once more be one in all VT’s go-to sprinters throughout her senior yr. She received the occasions in 23.22/50.06, the latter representing a half second enchancment from this meet in 2024.
GW’s strongest performances got here from the space occasions, of which they received three out of 4. A-10 mile and 500 champion Ava Topolewski continues to impress as she picked up twin first locations within the 500 (4:50.42) and 100 (9:53.60). Of word, her 500 time at present sits lower than 4 seconds away from her convention successful time from the spring, whereas her 1000 free marks a 23-second drop from this meet in 2024.
Daniel Choi made it a GWU sweep within the meet’s longest occasion by handing over a 9:19.03 victory within the males’s 1000. Choi additionally loved a large drop from this meet final yr, by which he went 9:35.75.
George Washington will face sufficient Energy 4 crew within the College of Georgia in two weeks. Virginia Tech, in the meantime, will host its first house meet in opposition to ACC foe Duke in three weeks’ time.
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