ATLANTA – The College of Chicago swimming & diving groups received two occasions and broke a pair of butterfly information to focus on day three of the 2023 College Athletic Affiliation (UAA) Championships on Friday.
For the primary time in program historical past, UChicago’s males sit in first place going into the competitors’s ultimate day with 1,224 factors. Host Emory sits solely 4 factors behind (1,220).
The Maroon ladies are at the moment in second place behind Emory with 1,094 factors. It additionally marked probably the most factors UChicago has scored on each side after day three of a UAA championship meet.
Jesse Ssengonzi continued his butterfly dominance and broke one other convention report within the course of. His 46.85 within the 100-yard butterfly prelims set a brand new UAA meet report. The junior adopted up with a 47.07 within the finals to win the occasion.
Ssengonzi was additionally a part of the successful 200-yard medley relay staff alongside Hudson Tritter, Garrett Clasen and Jason Starbuck. The quartet touched the wall in 1:28.00.
UChicago was well-represented within the males’s 100-yard breaststroke with 4 swimmers within the night A-finals. Starbuck picked up All-UAA honors with a runner-up displaying in 54.60. The Maroons additionally took fourth, seventh and eighth within the occasion.
Kyle Garcia additionally secured All-UAA standing with a third-place end within the 200-yard freestyle (1:38.17).
On the ladies’s aspect, the Maroons accounted for half of the A-final swimmers with 4 representatives within the 200-yard freestyle. Annabel Olivo (1:50.52) and Karen Zhao (1:50.67) had been All-UAA finishers by taking second and third, respectively. UChicago additionally positioned fifth and eighth within the race.
Alicia Soosai’s third place within the 100-yard breaststroke (1:03.63) resulted in an All-UAA accolade. The 200-yard medley relay additionally took third with a time of 1:45.14.
Emily Xu broke the college report within the 100-yard butterfly with a mark of 55.44. She completed fourth total.
UChicago Males’s Prime Finishers100-yard Butterfly – 1st, Jesse Ssengonzi (47.07); eighth, Hudson Tritter (49.36)200-yard Medley Relay – 1st, 1:28.00 (Hudson Tritter, Garrett Clasen, Jesse Ssengonzi, Jason Starbuck)100-yard Breaststroke – 2nd, Jason Starbuck (54.60); 4th, Garrett Clasen (54.98); seventh, Dylan Danaie (55.59); eighth, Edward Tay (56.49)200-yard Freestyle – third, Kyle Garcia (1:38.17); sixth, Arthur Kiselnikov (1:38.98)Three-meter Dive – 4th, Logan Sherwin (486.25); fifth, Andrew Chen (473.50)100-yard Backstroke – fifth, John Paul Phillips (48.61); sixth, Winston Chen (49.12)400-yard IM – sixth, Marcell Milo-Sidlo (3:57.03)
UChicago Ladies’s Prime Finishers200-yard Freestyle – 2nd, Annabel Olivo (1:50.52); third, Karen Zhao (1:50.67); fifth, Addie Diaz (1:52.14); eighth, Filippa Kolokotsa (1:53.23)100-yard Breaststroke – third, Alicia Soosai (1:03.63)200-yard Medley Relay – third, 1:45.14 (Ioanna Georgopoulou, Chanell Kann, Kira Tiv, Annabel Olivo)100-yard Butterfly – 4th, Emily Xu (55.44); eighth, Kira Tiv (56.42)100-yard Backstroke – 4th, Ioanna Georgopoulou (56.24); eighth, Elisabella Forest (56.92)400-yard IM – seventh, Mackenzie Leblanc (4:37.33)
NEXT MEET:
Saturday, Feb. 11 @ 10:00 AM / 5:30 PM (ET) – UChicago at UAA Championships (at Atlanta, Ga.)
