West Virginia Invitational: Navy Runs Away With Men’s Title; William & Mary Earns Women’s Crown

West Virginia Invitational: Navy Runs Away With Males’s Title; William & Mary Earns Ladies’s Crown

The 2024 West Virginia Invitational has wrapped up competitors, including its title to per week of extremely quick swimming. Navy gained the boys’s version of the meet with a decisive complete of two,600 factors, practically 900 factors forward of second place West Virginia (1,754). Villanova completed in third at 1,200 factors, whereas Previous Dominion was the one different crew with greater than 1,000 factors at 1,045.

The ladies’s version of the meet noticed a considerably tighter crew battle for the highest 4. In the long run, it was William & Mary taking the title with 1,853 factors. Villanova, after passing Navy for second on Day Two, took the silver place with 1,753.5 factors. Navy (1,621.5) took third over West Virginia (1,530).

Meet Outcomes

Males’s Highlights

West Virginia opened Night time One with a bang, profitable the 200 freestyle relay in a 1:19.32. Connor McBeth’s 19.17 anchor break up sealed the deal to assist WVU high Navy.

West Virginia’s Danny Berlitz recorded a formidable win within the 400 particular person medley on Day Two, clocking a 3:48.29. That swim slides just below the NCAA B-cut of three:49.53. Berlitz added the person medley double after his 1:45.90 on Day One within the 200 distance.

Relay hero McBeth tied with William & Mary’s Aiden Bond within the 50 freestyle, clocking a useless warmth 19.93 as the one athletes below 20 seconds.

Navy bought again at WVU within the 400 medley relay, profitable by a large margin due to a recreation altering breaststroke leg of 52.76 from Juan Mora in a 3:11.57 general mark. Owen Richter added a lot wanted diving factors for the Mountaineers by taking the three meter platform.

Navy prolonged its lead from the get-go on Day Two, swimming to a 1:26.47 time within the 200 yard medley relay. The lads’s 100 butterfly noticed a win for fifth place Previous Dominion, as Zach Redding out-touched Navy’s Ben Irwin, 47.12 to 47.67.

Redding pulled a double, taking the 200 freestyle simply three occasions after his 100 butterfly win. Mora gained the 100 breaststroke after placing up the quickest break up on the 400 medley relay the evening earlier than in a 52.82, main a 1-2 sweep for Navy. The Midshipmen additionally gained the 800 freestyle relay, going 6:30.67, two tenths forward of WVU.

Irwin secured the backstroke double with a victory within the 200 backstroke in a 1:42.53. Mora made it a double with a 1:55.32 to take the 200 breaststroke. Regardless of Navy’s overwhelming victory, WVU took the meet out on a excessive notice, profitable the 400 freestyle relay.

Remaining Outcomes

Navy- 2,600
West Virginia- 1,754
Villanova- 1,200
William & Mary- 894
Clarion- 212

Ladies’s Highlights

William & Mary gave early indicators of its victory on Day One, profitable the 200 freestyle relay by 4 tenths. Caroline Burgeson (23.27), Sarah Dunham (23.29), Zoe Arakelian (23.29) and Flynn Truskett (22.62) had been the foursome that bought it accomplished for a mixed time of 1:32.47.

Maddie Smutny was the victor within the 500 free by two seconds in a 4:51.02, representing the only real win the Mountaineers of the day.

Truskett adopted via on her relay swim with a nail biting victory within the 50 freestyle at a 23.00. Carlota Colomer Guasch was simply sixth hundredths behind for second. The ladies’s 400 medley relay was blown broad open when Burgeson anchored a 49.28 to make it a two second win for William & Mary.

Extending their streak on Day Two, the Griffins took the 200 medley relay by a second and a half margin, anchored once more by Burgeson in a 22.60.

Arabella Lee was the victor within the 100 butterfly for Villanova in a 53.71, a half second forward of W&M’s Lindsay Juhlin. It was again to the highest spot for the Griffins only one occasion later, as Claire Neilly took the 400 particular person medley by 5 seconds at a 4:15.28.

The Mountaineers picked up their second win from Gabriela Martin De La Torre within the 200 freestyle. Her 1:49.56 represented the one time below 1:50 within the subject. Navy discovered its manner onto the highest of the rostrum by advantage of Lauren Walsh within the 100 breaststroke. She gained a good contest by two tenths over Ellie Scherer. WVU capped the evening off with a win within the 800 yard freestyle relay.

Villanova took one other victory from Peri Gaguzis within the mile, profitable in a 16:51.79. Smutny confirmed her grit with a 200 butterfly victory, swimming to a 1:59.23.

Remaining Outcomes

William & Mary- 1,853
Villanova- 1,753.50
Navy- 1,621.50
West Virginia- 1,530
Previous Dominion- 504
James Madison- 187
Clarion-160
Duquesne- 72