ATLANTA (Feb. 21, 2018) – Setting school records in both the 200 Medley and 800 Free Relays for the second straight year, the FIU swimming and diving team completed the first day of the 2018 Conference USA Swimming and Diving Championships with a 12-point lead, sitting atop the leader board from the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center on Wednesday.
FIU earned 40 points right off the bat winning the 200 Medley Relay. The team of junior
Naomi Ruele, freshman
Sara Gyertyanffy, senior
Letizia Bertelli and senior
Ally Mayhew took first place with a school-record time of 1:37.84. Ruele and Bertelli were part of the 200 Medley Relay team that set the school record at the 2017 C-USA Championships with a time of 1:38.18.
Carita Luukkanen and Jennifer Deisi were also part of that record.
FIU's second school record came in the 800 Free Relay. The team of senior
Skye Carey, senior
Kyna Pereira, sophomore
Berta Triola and sophomore
Megan Bowen took first place with a time of 7:08.64, nearly five seconds faster than second place Rice. All four repeated as champions and bested the record they set a season ago at the C-USA Championships when they swam 7:09.02, nearly four seconds faster than the school record set in 2013 (7:12.70).
FIU will enter day two of the championships leading Rice, 80-68.
The Panthers return to the pool for day two action on Thursday with prelims of the 500 Free, 200 IM, 50 Free and 3-meter dive beginning at 10:30 a.m. The Finals are slated to begin at 6 p.m.
Fans are encouraged to follow the Panthers on Twitter (@FIUSwimDive) and become a fan on Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUSwimmingAndDiving) for all the latest Swimming and Diving news. Follow all of FIU's 18 athletic teams on Twitter (@FIUAthletics), Facebook (Facebook.com/FIUSports), YouTube (FIUPanthers), and Instagram (FIUathletics).
The swimming finals are being streamed live on ESPN3 each day of the championship and links for streaming, live stats, C-USA Swimming and Diving Records and championship central can be found below.
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Conference USA Swimming and Diving fans are encouraged to follow along with the 2018 edition of the championship meet through a multitude of ways. ESPN3 will be broadcasting each night of the swimming finals live on the web and through the WatchESPN app. Additionally, live scoring and statistics will be available through Atlanta Swimming, for all events.
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Fans can follow C-USA online on Twitter (
@ConferenceUSA) with the hashtag
#CUSASWIM and on Facebook (
facebook.com/ConferenceUSA).
