Swim and Dive Compete Against UMBC in Penultimate Home Meet of Season

January 17, 2025

PHILADELPHIA – The La Salle swim and dive teams wrapped up its two-meet homestand Friday afternoon, competing at Kirk Pool for the second straight Friday.

The women's team defeated the UMBC Retrievers by a score of 171-129, while the men fell to UMBC by a decision of 178-121.

HOW IT HAPPENED:

The Explorers started off the meet strong, winning the first two events, which were the 200-yard medley relays.
The winning women's team in that event (Gabrysia Herbreder, Carlota Ungo, Camilla Frost, and Tori Fenn) finished in a time of 1:45.92.
Tarik Gusic, Andrea Savoca, Felix Jedbratt, and Carter Perkins made up the winning team in the men's event, completing the relay in 1:30.72.
Beren Celik won the 200-yard free by a hair, with her time of 1:57.93 edging out second place by six hundredths of a second.
Zyenna Martinez, Heather Levesque, and Shailla Mejia went 1-2-3 in the 100-yard backstroke.
On the men's side in that event, Gusic and Noah Fredriksson finished first and second.
Both teams dominated in the 100-yard back. Herbreder and Ungo placed in the top two on the women's side, and Savoca's time of 56.91 was easily the winner in the men's event.
In the women's 200-yard fly, the Frost twins, Cecilie and Camilla, went first and second.
Jedbratt went on to win two individual events, which was the 50-yard free and the 100-yard fly.
Martinez and Gusic each went on to win their second individual event in the 200-yard backstroke.
Ungo got her second win of the day in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:22.12.
Tori Fenn held off her competitors in the 100-yard fly, winning by a quarter of a second.
Herbreder got her third win of the day in the 200-yard IM, winning by nearly five seconds.
In the final swim event of the day, the men's 400-yard free relay team of Perkins, Jedbratt, Fredriksson, and Gusic took gold.
On the diving side, Tiffany Brawn won both the one-meter and three-meter events. Kelsie Waddington got third in each of those events.

UP NEXT

The Explorers will embark on its final road trip before conference championships next weekend, competing against Fordham on Saturday, January 25. The meet will start at 11:00 a.m.

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