Swimming and Diving Prep for Senior Day Against Georgetown

Saturday, January 19

Daskalakis Athletic Center

12 p.m.

Drexel University

Georgetown (Senior Meet & Alumni Social)

Swimming and Diving Prep for Senior Day Against Georgetown

1/18/2019 10:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Swimming & Diving

PHILADELPHIA – The Drexel men's and women's swimming and diving teams will host Georgetown at the Daskalakis Athletic Center on Saturday in a meet that gets underway at 12 p.m. The meet will be the final one at home for the Dragons, who will celebrate 13 seniors and their alumni at the meet.

Dane Bell, Joseph Brown, Greg Buckley, Ralph Cannarozzi III, Patrick Cobb, Luke Hanner, Alberto Lagrutta Saenz, Harrison Schultz, Sarah Cahill, Niki Fistrovic, April Forsthoffer, Charlotte Myers and Deborah Stoddard will all be making their final appearances in the DAC pool on Saturday as Drexel looks to grab a victory.

LAST TIME OUT
The Drexel men's and women's swimming and diving team split with Towson on Saturday afternoon at Burdick Hall. The men's team won 161 - 133 while the women's team fell 169-127.

The men's team had 10 first place finishes, highlighted by Jason Arthur who won three individual events (100 back, 200 back, 200 IM) and factored into a 400 free relay victory. He finished the 100 back in 50.34 and the 200 back in 1:49.58 while hitting the wall at 1:50.15 for the win in the 200 IM. The relay team included Stathis Malamas, John Scully, Arthur and Kiran Richardson, who finished in 3:06.82.

Alexa Kutch highlighted the women's meet, winning four events. She won both the 100 back (56.44) and 200 back (2:03.90) while also factoring into 200 medley relay and 400 free relay victories. The 200 medley relay team was made of Kutch, Gabrielle Rudy, Hollie Hopf and Victoria Palochik, who finished in 1:45.85. Alicia Diaz, Kutch, Charlotte Myers and Palochik later teamed up for the women's final win of the day in the 400 free relay (3:36.51).

For a full list of results from last weekend, click here.

ABOUT THE HOYAS
Georgetown enters this weekend after swimming in a match for the first time in nearly two months against local rivals George Washington and American on Saturday afternoon at McCarthy Pool. The Hoyas swept the Eagles, while both sides fell to the Colonials.

The GU men came away with seven individual wins, including two wins apiece from Brett Sherman and Drew Carbone while Belinda Donohue went on to win a pair of individual events for the women's team, touching the wall first in the 50 free and the 100 free.

EVENT SCHEDULE
1. 200 Medley Relay
2. 1000 Free
3. 200 Free
4. 100 Back
5. 100 Breast
6. 200 Fly
7. 50 Free
8. 3m Diving
9. 100 Free
10. 200 Back
11. 200 Breast
12. 500 Free
13. 100 Fly
14. 1m Diving
15. 200 IM
16. 200 Free Relay

UP NEXT
The Dragons will return to action went they head to the Colonial Athletic Association Swimming and Diving Championships in Christiansburg, Va. from Feb. 20-23.