The men's and women's swimming teams returned to the pool Saturday afternoon with the Eagles taking on Division I foe Queens University of Charlotte in North Carolina.
For the afternoon, Emory recorded three event wins to go along with 14 NCAA B Cuts while the Royals swept the meet by scores of 198-64 on the men's side and 164-98 on the women's.
Twelve of the team's NCAA qualifying marks came from the Emory women including senior Katie Cohen's event win in the 100 Breaststroke where she touched at 1:03.27. Cohen added a B cut with her second place finish in the 200 Breast at 2:19.94, finishing behind Ellis McGraw's top time of 2:19.82, as the Eagles took the top three spots in the event.
Emory also saw a surge in the 200 Butterfly with three of the top four spots led by Aubrey Mitchell (2nd, 2:01.97), Elodie Mitchell (3rd, 2:03.25) and Lauren Opitz (4th, 2:03.73) with all three posted NCAA B Cuts. Adding qualifying times for the gold caps were senior Natalie Boorjian in the 200 Freestyle (2nd, 1:51.00), freshman Rebecca Fury in the 50 Freestyle (2nd, 23.48) and 100 Freestyle (3rd, 50.82), junior Caitlin Crysel in the 100 Freestyle (2nd, 50.50) and in the 200 Medley Relay (1:42.83) and 200 Freestyle Relay (2nd, 1:32.99).
For the men's team, freshman Douglas Sims claimed the team's lone event win as he was first in the 500 Freestyle with a time of 4:33.03.
The Eagles saw NCAA B Cuts turned in as well from senior McKee Thorsen in the 200 Fly (4th, 1:48.85) and sophomore Carson Kalish in the 400 IM (2nd, 3:57.10).
Additional top performers for the men's team were Ben Pritchard in the 1000 Freestyle (3rd, 9:36.41), Luke Hartman in the 200 Freestyle (2nd, 1:39.43), Zachary Spicer in the 100 Backstroke (3rd, 49.62) and 200 Backstroke (2nd, 1:48.35), Ryan Schnur in the 100 Breaststroke (55.64) and 200 Breaststroke (2:01.03), Anthony Pham in the 50 Free (20.83), Hayden Tupper in the 100 Freestyle (5th, 45.43) and Thorsen in the 100 Fly (4th, 48.83).
The Eagles will return to dual meet action next Saturday as the host Sewanee for Family Weekend at 2:00 PM.