Women's Swimming and Diving | November 17, 2017

LEWISBURG, Pa. - The La Salle swimming and diving team is set to begin the Bucknell Invitational Friday and continue competing in the meet through the weekend. The Bucknell Invite includes some of the toughest competition in the country. Live results throughout the Invite can be found here.

Men's swimmer Fabian Bergman recently won Atlantic 10 Performer of the Week for the third time this season following a tri-meet with Delaware and Rider. Bergman, who has been named to the award after all three of La Salle's meets this season, won the 100 back with a finale time of 50 seconds flat, over two seconds ahead of second place. Even more impressively, Bergman won the 200 back by over five seconds with a time of 1:50.20. The senior was also part of the 200 medley relay team to touch the wall first. He picked up his third individual win and fourth total win of the day in the 200 IM with a final time of 1:53.91.

Women's swimmer Olivia DiStefano was named to the same award. She took first in the 100 back, touching the wall in 58.06 seconds, and also in the 50 free, clocking in at 24.66 seconds. She was also part of the 400 free relay team that placed first in 3:43.69. Her day wasn't done as the 200 medley relay team garnered a second place finish as foursome combined to clock in a final time of 1:49.13.