12 First Place Finishes Highlight Meet Versus CCSU, TCU

Thursday, January 8

Miami, Fla.

12:00 PM

Florida Atlantic

Central Connecticut State (Women Only)

1/8/2015 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving

Jan. 8, 2015

MIAMI, Fla. -

Complete Meet Results

Final Scores

Florida Atlantic University men's and women's swimming and diving accumulated 12 first place finishes in Thursday's meet against Central Connecticut State and Texas Christian with the women claiming victory over CCSU.

The Owls came away with a win in the first event of the meet, the 200 medley relay. The team of Rachel Crino, Hannah Roper, Frida Nilsson, and Agnes Bucz finished with a time of 1:47.66. The men's team of John Brennock, John Nolte, Torbjorn Persson, and Cole Wisecarver earned second in the event with a final time of 1:36.85.

The first individual victory came from junior Abbey King in the 1000 free where she put up a time of 10:20.56. Bridget Belcik and Sahra El-Hamaki both set lifetime bests in the event with times of 10:57.27 and 11:01.99, respectively. Aaron Spence put up a career-high time of 10:05.74, which earned him fourth place.

King followed her performance in the 1000 free with a second-place finish in the 500 free (5:06.10). Joseph Steele saw victory in the men's 500 free with a final time of 5:04.42. Bean finished in second (5:08.12) and Zachary Kitzis took third (5:09.23).

Bucz saw her next win of the day in the 200 free (1:51.83). Freshman Bennet Bean was the men's top performer in the 200 free, taking second place in 1:44.55. With her third win of the day, junior Bucz took the 100 free in 52.28. Nolte saw his first win in the 100 free with a time of 46.95.

In the 50 free, Nilsson was the women's top finisher earning fifth place (24.72). Persson saw his second top-three finish of the meet in the 50 free where he took second place with a time of 21.62.

Coming in second in the 100 back was veteran Iwona Lefanowicz (58.76) followed by Crino in fourth (59.63). Brennock took third on the men's side with a time of 54.25. Lefanowicz also claimed second place in the 200 back (2:07.77) again with Crino right behind her in third (2:07.90).

Senior Anett Kovacs claimed her first win of the day in the 200 fly (2:03.42). Spence finished fifth in the men's 200 fly with a time of 2:03.98. The women battled it out in the 100 fly with Frida Nilsson coming in first (56.51) just two one-hundredths of a second ahead of Kovacs who earned second (56.53). Persson took first in the 100 fly (52.87) followed by Malachi Oakes in second (54.47) and Austin Olivares in third (57.04).

Kovacs had a fifth place finish in the 200 IM (2:12.15) while Nolte took first for the men (1:58.38). The 400 free relay team of Nilsson, Kovacs, Katie Dodge and Bucz came in third (3:35.81). The men's group of Persson, Brennock, Hunter Swartsel and Wisecarver earned first in the 400 free relay with a time of 3:13.33.

With another strong performance, Kiley Kuether claimed first place in 3 meter diving with a final score of 275.18. Fellow freshman Alexa Elkins took fourth place with a score of 236.18.

The women's team defeated CCSU 178 to 119 and just barely fell to TCU with a final score of 151 to 149. The men fell to TCU 149 to 101. The team will host its final two meets of the spring season at home on Friday, Jan. 30 at 3 p.m. versus FIU and Saturday, Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. against Indian River State College.