FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – The Nova Southeastern University men's and women's swimming team dropped a dual-meet against Indian River State College by a score of 135-127 on the women's side and 144.5-117.5 on the men's side.
Men The men opened their afternoon finishing second in the 200-yard medley relay, after
Marco Aldabe,
Cory Klemm,
Victor Tarin and
Malique Elder swam a time of 1:32.91, .15 seconds away from a win.
Jean-David Rousseau then swam a second-place time of 9:52.99 in the 1000-yard freestyle. Following Rousseau was
Victor Tarin, who swam a NCAA B-Standard time of 1:40.50 to take second place in the 200-yard freestyle.
In the fourth men's event of the day, Aldabe took first place with a time of 51.08 in the 100-yard backstroke.
Cory Klemm followed Aldabe with a third-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke after swimming a time of 59.89.
Thomas Rutherford then took second place in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:55.72.
Continuing his success in just about every race he competes in,
Thiago Sickert won the next two races, the 50-yard freestyle and 100-yard freestyle, swimming NCAA B-Standard times of 20.61 and 45.15, respectively. Freshman
David Van Der Colff followed with a win in the 200-yard backstroke, swimming a time of 1:52.95.
Aldabe and Tarin would take second a third place in the next two events, respectively, as Aldabe swam a time of 2:05.13 in the 200-yard breaststroke and Tarin swam a time of 4:44.59 in the 500-yard freestyle. The Sharks would go on to win the final two individual events, as Sickert swam a NCAA B-Standard time of 49.22 in the 100-yard butterfly and Aldabe swam a time of 1:53.44 in the 200-yard individual medley.
The men would end their day with a second-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay, swimming a time of 3:05.80. Sickert,
Javier Caballero, Elder and Tarin were neck-and-neck with IRSC the whole race but were unable to pull out the first-place finish in the end.
Women The women opened the afternoon with a second-place finish in the 200-medley relay, as
Emma Wahlstrom,
Malin Westman,
Courtney DeVeny and
Sydney Panzarino swam a time of 1:46.64.
Brooke Munion then won the 1000-free, swimming a time of 1:37.51 to defeat her competition by nearly eight seconds.
In the third women's event of the day, the 200-free, Wahlstrom swam her first NCAA B-Standard time to take first place. Wahlstrom's time of 1:51.97 was trailed by DeVeny, who went on to win the 100-back with a time of 57.25, .02 seconds short of a NCAA B-Standard time. Westman then swam her first NCAA B-Standard time, finishing in second place in the 100-back with a time of 1:04.70.
Freshman
Caroline Oster took third place in the 200-fly with a time of 2:11.80 followed by a second-place finish from Panzarino in the 50-free with a time of 24.35. Wahlstrom followed with her second NCAA B-Standard time of the afternoon, swimming a time of 51.82 in the 100-free. DeVeny then swam a time of 2:03.79 to take first place in the 200-back.
In the 200-breast, Westman took second place after swimming a time of 2:21.10.
Georgina Allin followed with a win in the women's 500-free, swimming a time of 5:08.24. Oster then swam to a third-place finish in the 100-fly, swimming a time of 1:00.40. In the final individual event of the afternoon, the 200-IM, DeVeny took second place with a time of 2:07.50.
The women's meet came down to the final event, the 400-free relay. The Sharks fell to the Pioneers, taking second place in the event, but not before Wahlstrom, Panzarino,
Jordan Shows and Allin swam a NCAA B-Standard time of 3:29.99.
#TeamChlorine will be back in action on Saturday, November 7
th, as both the men and women's swimming team head to Winter Park, Fla. to take on Rollins College. The meet is set to begin at 1:00 PM.
