The Emory University swimming and diving teams returned to the pool as part of the family weekend activities, hosting Birmingham-Southern College in the first home dual meet of the year. The Eagles put forth a dominating display as they swept the meet and were winners in all 32 events that were contested Saturday afternoon in Atlanta.
On the women's side, four Eagles were two-time event winners led by junior Megan Jungers who notched the lone NCAA B Cut of the meet. Jungers posted a NCAA qualifying mark in the 100 Backstroke with her time of 56.01, winning by nearly three seconds, before she added a win in the 200 Backstroke at 52.35.
Sophomore Jada Chatoor picked up wins in a pair of free style events, touching first in the 200 at 1:55.37 and later in the 500 at 5:07.05. Senior Allie MacMillan recorded wins in the 200 Fly (2:09.56) and 400 IM (4:34.49) while classmate Caroline Maki took first in both the 100 Freestyle (52.35) and 100 Fly (58.32).
Adding event wins for the Emory women were junior Sloane Donovan in the 1000 Freestyle (10:37.97), senior Anna Glowniak in the 100 Breaststroke (1:05.74), senior Sammie Kass in the 50 Free (24.35), junior Fiona Arwood in the 200 Breaststroke (2:22.47) and junior Tess Klugherz (262.35 – 1-meter) and sophomore Ariana Khan (255.35 – 3-meter) in the diving events.
On the men's side, five Eagles registered two individual wins apieceas they combined for 10 of the team's 16 event wins. Junior Ryan Gibbons paced the Eagles in the 1000 Freestyle (9:42.68) and 400 IM (4:03.67) events with sophomore Crow Thorsen notching first place efforts in the 200 Fly (1:51.06) and 500 Freestyle (4:39.32).
A trio of seniors combined for six more event wins with Pat Pema touching first in both the 100 (46.67) and 200 Freestyle (1:41.85) and Lawrence Redmond sweeping the 100 and 200 Backstrokes with times of 50.65 and 1:52.19. Lucas Bumgarner topped all divers in both events, recording scores of 353.30 in the 3-meter and 371.75 in the 1-meter.
Additional winners for the Emory men were sophomore Liyang Sun in the 100 Breaststroke (56.14), sophomore Dylan Yin in the 50 Freestyle (21.41), graduate student Justin Lum (2:02.64) and sophomore Jeff Echols in the 100 Fly (49.90).
The Eagles also went 4-for-4 in the relay events with the women picking up wins by Kass and freshmen Emily Noll, Keenan Day and Lily Consiglio in the 200 Medley (1:48.03) and Kass, senior Julia Colizzo and freshmen Avery Sammons and Claire DePiero in the 200 Freestyle (1:38.41). For the men, they saw the team of Lum, Echols, Thorsen and senior Ryan Soh win in the 200 Medley (1:31.47) with the team of Redmond, sophomore Nolan Lahmann, sophomore Johnny Bradshaw and freshman Caden Bjornstad closing out the meet with a time of 1:26.14 in the 200 Freestyle.
Emory is back to competition next Saturday, October 29 as a contingent of swimmers will head to Pembroke, North Carolina for a meet at UNC-Pembroke.