NCAA Championships
Swimming
ATHENS, Ga. — Vanderbilt swimming concluded the SEC Championships Saturday with seven career-low performances and a near-record relay at Gabrielsen Natatorium.
“I’m really proud of everybody and the work we put in over the course of the year, to have the kind of meet that we did is extremely fulfilling. Today was a good way to cap off the week,” head coach Jeremy Organ said. “We’ll go to a last-chance meet with most of the team next weekend just to have another opportunity to race, hopefully we’ll ensure that Kailia [Utley] will make it to NCAAs. We’ll see what we can get done next week and have some fun racing.”
The Commodores will be back in action Friday-Saturday next weekend at the Last Chance meet in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Meet Highlights
-In the final event of the championships, the team of Megan Ciezczak, Reagan Mathieson, Hannah Weissman and Ryen Bosuro recorded the program’s best time of the campaign in the 400 free relay.
-Aubrey Hull ended up among the top 35 in 200 back prelims to start the day for the Dores.
-Ciezczak paced a group of seven Commodores in the 100 free prelims.
-Emily Constable and Bailey Ratzburg finished within seven seconds of each other to lead Vandy in the prelims of the 200 breast.
Notes
-The Dores scored 165 points at the championships to finish in 13th place overall.
-Keyed by Mathieson’s 49.31 second leg, the 400 free relay squad combined to post a mark of 3:21.17 that now stands second on the school’s all-time performer list.
-Hull’s 1:57.26 time in the 200 back—the sophomore already ranked second in program history in the event coming into the championships—came within a second of breaking the school record.
-Both Quinlan Hinerfeld and Libby Gilbert moved up on the Commodores’ all-time performer list in the same event, with the former now standing third after touching the wall in 1:58.34 and the latter ranking sixth with a 1:59.41 mark.
-With a season-low time of 50.13 on the first leg of the 400 free relay, Ciezczak made the CSCAA National Invitational Championship B cut in the 100 free.
-Ratzburg’s career-best mark of 2:18.12 in the 200 breast also met the CSCAA NIC B standard.
-Both Weissman and Bosuro finished with season-best times in the 100 free prelims after touching the wall in 51.48 and 51.61, respectively.
-Karsyn Cook (51.66), Jenna Ravarino (51.83) and Olivia Solimine (52.04) all posted the best marks of their careers in the 100 free as well.
-The duo of Amelia Harper and Liv Gooding—with times of 2:19.66 and 2:20.12, respectively—had their best career performances in the 200 breast.
-Grace Ciaramitaro recorded a season-low 2:00.63 mark in the 200 back.
