The Emory University swimming & diving teams flexed their muscles in the team's official home opener, sweeping all 32 events in a dual meet triumph over the visiting Sewanee Tigers Saturday afternoon in front of a large capacity crowd for Family Weekend at the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
The Eagles claimed wins in all 32 events contested on Saturday with the women's team capturing the 239-58 win and the men posting the 245-48 score line. In addition to the event sweep, the Eagles saw one NCAA B Cut times turned in during the afternoon.
On the women's side of the meet, three Eagles were multi-event winners with junior Elodie Mitchell leading the way with first place efforts in the 200 Fly (2:04.19) and 500 Freestyle (5:10.75) with her mark in the butterfly representing the lone NCAA qualifying times recorded on the day. Junior Maddy Lu swept the breaststroke events with winning times of 1:05.70 in the 100 and 2:21.94 in the 200, and freshman Charlotte Brown claimed two wins by touching first in the 200 Backstroke at 2:05.37 and in the 200 IM at 2:08.35.
Additional event winners for the Emory women included senior Emma Lunn in the 1000 Freestyle (10:41.42), senior Natalie Boorjian in the 200 Freestyle (1:53.01), sophomore Holly Brundage in the 100 Backstroke (58.28), senior Pooja Hemige in the 50 Freestyle (24.95), junior Maya Kriz in the 1-meter dive (285.38), senior Meredith Teague in 100 Freestyle (53.72), junior Caitlin Crysel in the 100 Fly (56.53) and junior Jacqueline St. Clair in the 3-meter dive (264.68).
For the men's squad, four Eagles came through with double event wins as freshman Douglas Sims took the top spot in the 1000 Freestyle (9:46.55) and 500 Freestyle (4:38.07) while sophomore Carson Kalish won the 200 Freestyle (1:41.24) and 200 IM (1:53.10), sophomore Ryan Schnur earned the top spot in the 100 Breaststroke (57.21) and 200 Breaststroke (2:07.59) and senior Hayden Tupper swept the spring freestyles with times of 20.94 in the 50 and 46.14 in the 100.
Also adding event wins for the men's gold caps were sophomore Anthony Simmons Jr. in the 100 Backstroke (51.90), senior McKee Thorsen in the 200 Fly (1:53.33), junior Solly Berkenwald in the 3-meter (366.83), freshman Zachary Geller in the 200 Backstroke (1:55.69), junior Zachary Spicer in the 100 Fly (50.63) and sophomore Thomas Stone in the 1-meter (284.78).
Furthermore, the Eagles swept all four relay events with the women prevailing in the 200 Medley Relay by the C team of Victoria Layden, Katie Cohen, Stephanie Lee and Rebecca Fury (1:46.41) and in the 200 Freestyle Relay from the C group of Crysel, Lee, Lauren Opitz and Annabel Olivo (1:37.06) while the men's saw their B team of Spicer, Owen Howell, Kalish and Tupper touch first in the 200 Medley Relay at 1:31.54 before the A team of Anthony Pham, Fred Brown, Graham Zucker and Simmons Jr. closed out the meet with a win in the 200 Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:24.20.
The Eagles will be idle next weekend before returning to the home waters on October 30-31 for the annual Emory Fall Invitational in Atlanta.
