By Bryan Dillon
The UMBC men are in first place with 288.5 points after the second day of the 2014 Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Swimming and Diving Championships contested Thursday at the University of Tennessee’s Allan Jones Aquatic Center.
The University of the Incarnate Word sits in second with 284 points. Davidson is in third with 219 points, while Gardner-Webb is fourth with 185 points. NJIT sits in fifth place with 110.5 points and VMI is in sixth with 82 points. Rounding out the men’s standings is Howard with 48 points.
Dylan Ludwick set a conference and meet record in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:23.19. University of the Incarnate Word’s Connor Hennessy followed in second with a time of 4:24.32, while UMBC’s Robert Breen took third-place with a time of 4:27.28.
After setting the pace in the preliminaries, UMBC’s Mohamed Hussein topped his mark in the final with a time of 1:44.50. UIW’s Evandro Silva finished second touching in 1:44.92. David Moore of UIW finished third with a time of 1:47.08. All three times qualified as NCAA “B” cut times.
Winning the 50-yard freestyle, topping his meet record he set earlier in the day, was UIW’s Alex Brouwer with a time of 20.16. UMBC’s Gregor Spoerlein took second place with a time of 20.29, while NJIT’s Brian Capozzola and UMBC’s Lauri Kaei finished tied for third-place touching in 20.52.
In the 3-meter dive UMBC swept the podium. Ryan Green finished in first-place with a score of 318.85 for the event. Pak Lam Wong finished second with a score of 295.70 and Timmy Perkins took third with a score 280.00.
In a record setting 200-yard freestyle relay, the Incarnate Word team of Silva, Scott Jonsson, Daniel Torres and Alex Brouwer set a meet and CCSA record with a time of 1:19.59. UMBC (Evan Carey, Trevor Doll, Lauri Kaei and Gregor Spoerlein) also topped the previous meet record with a time of 1:20.57 to finish second. Gardner-Webb (Nathan Lile, Cole Hickey, Brandon Searle and Matt Anderson) finished in third-place with a time of 1:21.24.
The CCSA Championship will continue with the third day of action on Friday, Feb. 21 at 10:00 a.m., starting with the men’s 400-yard individual medley preliminaries. The event finals for day three will start at 6:00 p.m.
The Liberty women are in first place with 264 points after the second day of the 2014 Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association (CCSA) Swimming and Diving Championships contested Thursday at the University of Tennessee’s Allan Jones Aquatic Center.
Florida Gulf Coast is second with 238 points and Incarnate Word is third with 154 points. Georgia Southern is fourth with 147 points, while Davidson is fifth with 134 points. Gardner-Webb is alone in sixth with 105 points and Campbell is in seventh with 100 points. Behind Campbell is North Florida with 89 points and Howard is ninth with 58 points. Radford is alone in 10th place, while VMI and UNC Asheville are tied for 11th place with 36 points. Rounding out the standings is North Carolina A&T with 22 points.
In the 500-yard freestyle Davidson freshman Elise Lankiewicz took first-place with a time of 4:48.65. Liberty’s Heather McCorkel finished second with a mark of 4:48.87. Lani Cabrera of Florida Gulf Coast touched third with a time of 4:49.88.
Liberty’s Emilie Kaufman won the women’s 200-yard individual medley with a time of 2:00.40 which was just a fraction off of the conference and meet record (2:00.29) she set in the preliminaries earlier in the day. Kylie Warne of Campbell finished second with an NCAA “B” cut of 2:01.70. In third-place, touching in at 2:03.84 was Samantha Rahael of Florida Gulf Coast.
Winning the 50-yard freestyle was FGCU’s Emma Svensson with a NCAA “B” cut time of 22.61. Lana Nguyen of the University of the Incarnate Word finished in second-place with a time of 22.95. Liberty’s Jess Reinhardt finished third with a mark of 23.01
In the one-meter diving event, Kali Lents of UIW took first-place by posting a meet record of 292.70. Kaliya Burton-Akright tallied 265.55 points to finish in second place. Incarnate Word’s Kim Foster finished third with a total score of 263.90.
In the 200-yard freestyle the Florida Gulf Coast team of Emma Svensson, Sara Hamilton, Christina Tanninen and Kira Toussaint finished in first place with a time 1:30.24. In second place was Liberty (Jess Reinhardt, Cori Gary, Chloe Thomas and Meghan Babcock) with a mark of 1:30.94, while Davidson’s (Eric Clancy, Elise Lankiewicz, Angie Healy and Kassie Shannon) touched third with a time of 1:33.01.
The CCSA Championship will continue with the third day of action on Friday, Feb. 21 at 10:00 a.m., starting with the women’s 400-yard individual medley preliminaries. The event finals for day three will start at 6:00 p.m.
