Six seniors from the FGCU swimming and diving team swam and dove in their last home swim meet: Mikala Buening (diver), Barbara Caraballo (swimmer), Evita Leter (swimmer), Sandra Wilk (swimmer), Marcella Marinheiro (swimmer) and Ashley Wright (diver).
The Eagles faced FAU in their final home swim meet. I was unable to see the first few events including the 1650 yard freestyle. A source told me that sophomore Melissa Marinheiro had a come from behind win against Danielle Zacharias and Julia Alberti of FAU in a time of 17:46.39.
Aside from the first few events, I was able to see events 4-13 at the meet.
In the 50 yard freestyle, Caraballo and Leter finished first and second with times of 24.13 (Caraballo) and 24.70 (Leter). Junior Sommer Harris finished third while Wilk finished seventh.
During the diving portions, Wright finished second and Buening finished third in the three meter dive. Freshmen Stevie Meyerson and Natalie Keffer finished fifth and seventh while sophomore Morgot Kessler finished sixth.
In the one meter dive, Wright finished in first with a score of 271.42 while Buening finished third with a score of 246.22.
Back at the swimming area, sophomores Fanny Teijonsalo, Christina Kaas Elmgreen and Doris Eichorn and junior Yee Ching Wong won first through fourth in the 200 yard individual medley.
Freshman Cassidy Fry and sophomore Kiley Eble finished first and second respectively in the 100 yard butterfly.
Junior Madi Clarke and sophomore Linda Shaw finished first and second respectively in the 100 yard freestyle.
Sophomore Katie Latham, freshman Lindsay Manganiello and senior Marcella Marinheiro respectively finished first, second and third in the 100 yard backstroke.
In the 500 yard freestyle, sophomore Georgie Gardner finished first with a time of 5:09.34, while in the 100 yard breastroke, freshman Lizzy White, junior Vanessa Rivas and freshman Karin Schienvar finished first through third respectively.
Finally, in the last event of the meet, the 200 yard freestyle relay, FGCU finished first, third and fourth in the event.
In the end, FGCU won their swim meet 177-63 in all 13 events and when I showed a poster to the six seniors, they were in awe and thought I was really sweet to make them a poster to make them feel special.
It is sad that this was the last home meet, but it was wonderful that the FGCU swimming and diving finished on a good note with a win before they leave for Florida International University (FIU) for their final meet of the season before preparing for the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) Championship in Athens, Georgia before taking their attempts at the NCAA national tournament in Indianapolis.
Tune in for my next blog as I will be covering the FGCU men's tennis teams' official home match as they set off to play Bethune-Cookman University.
freshman diver Stevie Meyerson in her second attempt
FAU and FGCU swimmers take off in the 100 yard butterfly
Result of the 50 yard freestyle
FAU and FGCU Swimmer take off in the 100 yard backstroke
Senior Ashley Wright sets up for her second attempt in the one meter dive
2 comments:
This is funny cause I wrote about this meet for EagleNews. You definitely have a good writing style and skills. Where my concern comes in is how are you differentiating from the EagleNews sports section or an FGCU Athletics press release?
Jesse Martin
I just go by the athletics page and I had an outside source help me out when I was unable to see the first three events
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