The Emory University swimming & diving teams closed out their weekend sweep of the Emory Fall Invitational Saturday afternoon as the Eagles posted winning scores of 774 points on the women's side and 704.5 points on the men's to defeat visiting Carson-Newman, Wingate and Trinity (TX).
During the second session of the meet, the Eagles continued to dominate in the pool with the women's team racking up seven additional event victories to go along with 13 NCAA qualifying marks whereas the men's squad claimed three event wins and saw four NCAA B Cuts turned in.
Junior Caitlin Crysel was one of the team's top performers with two individual victories as she touched first in the 50 Freestyle at 23.39 before going for 55.37 to win the 100 Fly. Adding individual triumphs for the women were Holly Brundage in the 100 Backstroke (55.40), Ellis McGraw in the 200 Breaststroke (2:19.21) and Rebecca Fury in the 200 Freestyle (1:50.06).
The Eagles cleaned up points in the numerous events as the team swept the top four places in the 50 Freestyle, 200 Breaststroke, 100 Fly and 200 Freestyle, including the top five spots in the 50 and 200 Freestyles.
To go along with the individual wins, the Eagles exceled in both relay events on Saturday with the quartet of Brundage, Crysel, Katie Cohen and Allison Greeneway winning the 200 Medley Relay with a time of 1:42.55 and in the 400 Freestyle Relay, the group of Fury, Crysel, Lola Early and Natalie Boorjian threw down a blistering mark of 3:23.56 to win by over six seconds.
Friday's standout Carson Kalish recorded another event win to highlight the men's team in the pool during the final session as he won the 400 IM with a time of 3:56.91. Senior McKee Thorsen was an event winner as well in the 100 Fly as he touched with a leading time of 48.41.
Both Eagles' marks were NCAA B Cuts with Ben Pritchard (15:46.60) and Colin Zexter (49.19) joining them with NCAA qualifying marks in the 1650 Freestyle and 100 Backstroke.
On the diving boards, junior Solly Berkenwald swept both men's events with scores of 377.93 on the 1-meter and 415.95 on the 3-meter while Maya Kriz was the women's top performer as she took first place in Friday's 1-meter event at 289.05 and was second Saturday with a score of 280.95 in the 3-meter discipline.
Emory will close out the fall semester in a few weeks with the Denison Invitational running November 19-21 in Granville, Ohio.
