The Emory University swimming & diving teams were back in the pool Saturday afternoon, hosting crosstown foe Georgia Tech in dual meet action at the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
Competing against their Division I counterparts, the Eagles held their own with Emory athletes collecting a total of five event wins on the afternoon and turned in a pair of NCAA B Cut times. The Yellow Jackets secured wins on both ends of meet with the women recording a 185.5-111.5 result and the men defeating the Eagles, 218-81.
For the Emory women, sophomore Elodie Mitchell was a standout performer once again as she seized two of the team's wins on the afternoon. Mitchell lowered her season-best time in the 200 Fly for the win, touching with a NCAA qualifying mark of 2:02.01, before dominating in the 500 Freestyle, winning by close to five seconds at 5:03.28.
The Eagles added two event wins on the women's slate with senior Morgan Main leading the 1000 Freestyle field with time of 10:36.18 and in the 400 IM, classmate Meredith Liu threw down a 4:32.24 for the win.
Junior Hayden Tupper was one of the headliners for the Emory men in the pool on Saturday as he secured the lone event win with his leading time in the 100 Freestyle, touching first at 46.02. Additionally, classmate McKee Thorsen registered the men's first NCAA B Cut of the season with his mark of 1:48.80 in the 200 Fly, narrowly coming in second by .09 seconds in a wire-to-wire battle.
To go along with the team's four wins, the women's team saw second place finishes turned in by Liu in the 1000 Free (10:42.45), sophomore Maddy Lu in the 100 Breaststroke (1:06.04), junior Emma Lunn in the 200 Backstroke (2:03.88), sophomore Allison Greeneway in the 100 Fly (56.11) and the 200 Freestyle Relay team of Greeneway, sophomores Caitlin Crysel, Stephanie Lee and senior Ava Kennedy (1:35.48).
On the men's side, the Eagles had runner-up efforts turned in by sophomore Zachary Spicer in the 100 Backstroke (50.98), senior Henri Bonnault in the 100 Breaststoke (56.05) and Thorsen in the 100 Fly (49.07). Spicer and Bonnault also led a total of seven third place finishes as Spicer touched at 1:53.39 in the 200 Backstroke and Bonnault finished at 2:07.58 in the 200 Breaststroke.
Thorsen aided in the relay efforts as well as he was part of Emory's A teams that finished third in both the 400 Medley and 200 Freestyle. Thorsen, Bonnault, Tupper and sophomore Colin Zexter combined for a mark of 3:18.35 in the 400 Medley and in the 200 Freestyle, Thorsen and Tupper teamed with sophomore Connor McHugh and freshman Fred Brown for time of 1:23.78.
For diving events, reigning UAA Athletes of the Week graduate student Ariana Khan and sophomore Solly Berkenwald paced the Eagles with Khan taking fourth in both events and Berkenwald finishing inside the top three for the men. Khan scored 252.60 on the 1-meter followed by 259.58 on the 3-meter. Berkenwald started his day with a 320.78 score on the 3-meter before notching 323.55 on the 1-meter.
Emory will be off next weekend before traveling to Sewanee, Tennessee to take on the Sewanee Tigers in more dual action on Saturday, October 25th.
