Kimmy Shannon Blasts 400 IM Report as Pitt Sweeps Villanova
Kimmy Shannon lowered her Pittsburgh college report within the 400 particular person medley as Pitt swept in-state foe Villanova Friday night time.
The Panthers’ ladies’s workforce prevailed by a 211-87 margin, the boys by a 228-70 rating. Pitt gained 30 of 32 occasions at Timber Pool, setting 4 facility data plus the college mark by Shannon.
Shannon owned the college report at 4:08.47 from ACCs within the spring of 2025, however she obliterated that point Friday by going 4:06.18. Shannon additionally gained the 1,000 free with a time of 9:46.05.
The meet began with matching meet data within the 400 medley relays. The ladies’s quartet of Claire Jansen, Angelina Messina, Sydney Gring and Avery Kudlac took down the report with a time of three:33.14. The boys’s workforce (Mason Leach, Eli Hobson, Alan Vergine, Julian Koch) additionally took the mark in 3:07.85. The ladies’s 200 free relay of Kudlac, Gring, Mary Clarke and Jansen went 1:29.04 to set a pool mark within the 200 free relay.
Gring and Kudlac went 1-2 in each the 200 free and 100 free, Gring profitable in 1:46.61 and 43.59, respectively. Jansen did the backstroke double, profitable the 100 in 53.22 and the 200 in 1:53.81 with Shannon second.  Messina gained the 100 breast, Allie Witdoeckt claimed the 100 fly and Avery Hafele’s 23.03 outsprinting teammate Sof Tijunelis by .11 seconds for the 50 free crown.
Pitt additionally swept diving, Mariana Osorio Mendoza scoring practically similar 297-point scores on each boards.
Koch swam a pool report of 45.58 seconds within the 100 fly to steer the boys’s workforce. Koch additionally gained the 200 free in 1:35.83.
Cy Zhang gained the five hundred free and 1,000 free. Vergine was second to Koch within the 100 fly and second to Alex Bauer within the 400 IM round profitable the 200 fly. Joseph Gardner gained the 100 breast, and runner-up Grey Attmore gained the 200. The identical held true in backstroke with 200 again winner Jacobo Nuca first ending runner-up to Leach within the 100. Donat Fabian’s 20.06 edged Hobson within the 50, Merlin Belmon gained the 100 free in 43.59.
Villanova’s wins got here by way of Meghan Tiernan, who went 1:58.48 to edge Olivia Yoo by .08 seconds within the ladies’s 200 fly, and Nate Warson 338.40 to win males’s 1-meter diving.
