The Grand Canyon University men's and women's swim teams today completed
the last of their two dual meets against North Dakota at the Hyslop
Sports Center in Grand Forks, N.D. For the second straight day, the
Antelopes men were victorious in their dual, as they also remained
perfect on the season, with a 169-125 win. The women were narrowly
outdueled by UND 154-140.
The two GCU teams combined for 22 first place finishes in 28 swimming events today.
Yesterday, the women defeated UND by a score of 124-113, while the men won 129-107. Hannah Kastigar, who had two individual wins yesterday, picked up three more to bring her weekend total to five to lead the GCU women. Iegor Lytvenok had four individual wins over the two days of action against UND.
The GCU relay teams started off the second dual in the same manner as
yesterday, taking first in both the men's and women's 400-medley relay.
The men, behind swims of Lytvenok, Aslan Burbayev, Ivan Nechunaev, and Illya Glazunov
won by nearly 10 seconds en route to setting a new pool record with a
time of 3:16.92. The women's squad of Kastigar, Kathleen Robertson, Rebecca Coan, and Jovanna Koens posted a time of 3:56.01 to win the event.
Following up on her win in the 1650-free yesterday, Inha Kotsur posted a victory in the 1000-free with a time of 10:33.27. On the men's side, Adam Kastigar was victorious after clocking in at a season best time of 9:59.46.
Freshman Jacob Lambros won the men's 200-free after touching the wall in 1:41.36.
The 'Lopes swept the top-three spots in the men's 100-back, led by Everton Kida's first place finish with a time of 51.19. Nechunaev (51.25) and John Feely (51.74) both finished within a second of their teammate to round out the top-three in the event.
Kastigar added to her individual win total after claiming the top spot
in the women's 200-fly and 200-back with times of 2:02.07 and 2:04.30,
respectively. Her 200-fly time was just .19 off the pool record. The GCU freshman already owns the
fastest mark in the conference at 1:58.06 in that event.
GCU also took second and third in the 200-fly, with Coan (2:10.50) and Diana Volk (2:11.68) completing the sweep. In the same event on the men's side, Stanislav Saiko touched the wall first in 1:53.65.
Koens bettered her 50-free time from yesterday to take first once again, this time in 23.93 seconds. She added another win in the 100-free with a time of 52.05 seconds.
Glazunov was the winner in the men's 50-free, clocking in at 20.58 seconds while Lytvenok won the 100-yard free in 44.87 seconds.
Feely and Kida went 1-2 in the men's 200-back with times of 1:54.79 and 1:56.31, respectively.
Kotsur picked up her second individual victory of the day in the women's
500-free after touching the wall in 5:09.74. Saiko also won his second
individual event with a first-place finish in men's 500-free, clocking
in at 4:37.66.
Hannah Peseau and Coan took first and second in the women's 100-fly and were
separated by just .47 seconds with times of 58.53 and 59.00 seconds,
respectively. On the men's side, GCU had another 1-2-3 finish with
Nechunaev leading the way at 48.49 seconds. Alexandr Dmityiyenko clocked in at 50.69 seconds, followed by Tanner Brotherton at 51.78 seconds.
Kastigar rounded out her individual events today with her third victory,
this time in the 200-IM with a time of 2:05.43 while Lytvenok added his second individual win of the day in the men's 200-IM
after touching the wall in 1:49.58. He
owns the best mark among WAC swimmers so far this season with his time
of 1:45.85.
Catherine Polito, Samantha Magnani, Coan, and Koens teamed to win the women's 200-free relay with a time of
1:37.03. GCU owns the
top WAC time in the event this season at 1:33.29.
Ending the meet on a high note, the 'Lopes men won the 200-free relay
with a time of 1:21.30 behind the swims of Nechunaev, Dmitriyenko, Michael Branning, and Glazunov. That time missed the pool record by just .22 seconds.
The 'Lopes will next be in action when the women welcome New Mexico
State and Northern Arizona to the Brophy Sports Complex in Phoenix on
Jan. 25 at 1 p.m. for their last home meet of the season. The men will
hold an intrasquad scrimmage at the same location
