Men's Swimming Knocks Off La Salle In Season Opener

Saturday, October 19

Philadelphia, Pa.

11:00am

Drexel University

226

La Salle

Men's Swimming Knocks Off La Salle In Season Opener

10/19/2024 6:39:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

PHILADELPHIA - The Drexel men's swimming and diving team opened its season with a win against the La Salle Explorers on Saturday, 226-73. The Dragons finished first in 13 of the events on the day.

Theo Andreopoulos set a new pool record with a time of 48.87 seconds in the 100 back. The previous time was 49.97 seconds set in 2017. Andreopoulos also added a first-place finish in 100 free and 4x50 freestyle.

Nate Piccolo, Colton Wade, Sebastian Smith, and Theo Andreopoulos set a new pool record in the 200 Free Relay, hitting the wall at 1:22.41. This beat the previous record by .06 seconds.

First Place

4x50 Yard Medley Relay - Dimi Gkelis, Bart Loter, Kuba Kwasny, Theo Andreopoulos -1:31.01
1000 Free – Reds Rullis  - 9:52.47
200 Free- Andrea Casini – 1:41.98
100 Back – Theo Andreopoulos – 48.87
100 Breast – Bart Loter – 58.10
200 Butterfly – Kuba Kwasny – 1:53.58
50 Free- Sebastian Smith – 20.41
100 Free- Theo Andreopoulos – 45.12
200 Back – Petar Pavalic – 1:51.06
200 Breast – Kacper Karnik – 2:10.33
500 Free – Red Rullis – 4:41.49
100 Butterfly – Sebastian Smith – 48.74
200 IM – Alessio Gianni – 1:57.04
4x50 Freestyle – Theo Andreopoulos, Nate Piccolo, Colton Wade, Sebastian Smith – 1:22.41

Second Place

1000 Free – Mohammed EITayeb - 10:02.74
200 Free – Youseff Bahgat  - 1:41.98
100 Back -Dimi Gkelis  - 4:54.56
200 Butterfly – Mohammed EITayeb – 1:56.29
100 Free – Sebastian Smith – 45.14
200 Back – Alessio Gianni – 1:52.05
200 Breast – Bart Loter – 2:10.44
500 Free – Youssef Bahgat – 4:42.26
200 IM – Dimi Gkelis – 1:57.44
4x50 – Red Rullis, Jakub Kwasny, Petar Pavalic, Andrea Casini – 1:24.45

Third Place

1000 Free – Grady Potter – 10.03.98
100 Back - Petar Pavalic - 50.63
100 Breast – Alex Blacker – 1:00.37
200 Butterfly – Youssef Bahgat – 1:58.32
50 Free – Colton Wade – 21.64
1M – Joshua Gratton – 222.00
100 Free – Colton Wade – 46.63
200 Back – Dimi Gkelis – 1:52.36
200 Breast – Eli Kofman – 2:13.58
500 Free – Grady Potter – 4:58.59
100 Butterfly - Kuba Kwasny – 50.35
3 M – Joshua Gratton – 262.35
200 IM - Eli Kofman – 1:57.45

Up Next
The Dragons will travel to Seton Hall on Saturday, November 9th.