The Emory University swimming & diving teams hold down the top spots on the team leaderboard following night one of competition of the Emory Fall Invitational. The Eagles recorded nine event wins on the evening to lead Wingate and Carson-Newman in the annual invitational at the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center.
Through one session of events, the Emory women lead the three-team field with 342 points while the men's team tops the leaderboard with 307.5 points. The women turned in six event victories on Friday with three coming on the men's side. As a unit, the Eagles had 13 NCAA B Cut performances across the 16 events.
For the women, four different Gold caps registered event wins to go along with a relay sweep on day one. The Eagles also secured 11 of Emory's NCAA B Cuts in a strong opening night of swims.
Earning event wins for the Emory women were Elodie Mitchell in the 500 Freestyle (4:59.95), Katie Cohen in the 100 Breaststroke (1:04.11), sophomore Holly Brundage in the 200 Backstroke (1:59.41) and Rebecca Fury in the 100 Freestyle (50.83).
Emory had double-digit top-three individual efforts on the women's side including a showcase in the 200 Backstroke where the Eagles claimed all five top spots with the three top finishes all notching NCAA qualifying marks with Brundage followed by Emma Lunn (1:59.84) and Victoria Layden (2:02.02). Additionally, second place finishes were turned in from Allison Greeneway in the 200 IM (2:04.54), Maddy Lu in the 100 Breast (1:04.28), Natalie Boorjian in the 100 Freestyle (51.45) and Aubrey Mitchell in the 200 Fly (2:00.75).
The women's relay swept came from the teams of Boorjian, Fury, Caitlin Crysel and Lola Early in the 200 Freestyle (1:32.82) and from Brundage, Cohen, Crysel and Fury in the 400 Medley (3:45.80), with both teams coming in under the NCAA B Cut threshold.
On the men's side of the meet, Carson Kalish was the headliner Eagle as he posted two event wins on the night as he tied for first in the 200 IM with a NCAA B cut time of 1:49.67 before taking the top spot in the 200 Fly at 1:48.96, also representing a NCAA B Cut.
Additionally, the Eagles saw Ryan Schnur (55.95) in the 100 Breaststroke, Zachary Spicer (1:49.73) in the 200 Backstroke and Hayden Tupper (1:49.73) in the 100 Freestyle record second place showings to highlight the Emory men.
To go along with the individual efforts, the Eagles' 200 Freestyle Relay team of Tupper, Anthony Pham, Colin Zexter and Fred Brown claimed the top spot at 1:21.60 before the group of Spicer, Schnur, Kalish and Tupper closed out the evening in second in the 400 Medley Relay at 3:18.07.
The Emory Fall Invitational will conclude on Saturday with Session II getting under at 11:00 AM in Atlanta.
