North Carolina vs UNC Wilmington
- October 20, 2023
- Wilmington, N.C.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: UNC Athletics
WILMINGTON, N.C. – The UNC swimming and diving teams swept a dual meet from UNCW at Allen Natatorium Friday. The Carolina women posted a 215-80 victory, while Tar Heel men recorded a 197-96 win as each team improved to 2-0 in dual meet competition.
The Tar Heels won all 32 events and set six pool records as the ladies claimed the top three spots in 11 of 16 events, and the men took each podium spot in the 100 and 200 fly,1000 free, and 200 IM.
“Tonight was an entire team effort where everyone stepped up,” head coach Mark Gangloff said. “I’m so proud of how our team entered this meet and took control. It was particularly exciting because a handful of athletes took home their first college dual meet victory. I look forward to continuing this momentum as we approach our meet versus South Carolina.”
After helping the UNC women’s 200 medley B relay team edge the Tar Heels’ A squad by less than a second, Katja Pavicevic swept the breaststroke events. She finished 0.25 seconds in front of freshman teammate Samantha Armand in the 200-yard breaststroke, posting a time of 1:02.04. She later touched the wall 0.47 seconds before Armand in the 100-yard breaststroke with a mark of 54.06.
Juniors Olivia Nel and Greer Pattison also won a pair of events on the ladies side. Nel swept the sprint freestyle events, winning the 100-yard freestyle by 0.30 ahead of teammate Michaela Chokureva with a pool record time of 50.09 before edging Brie Romney by 0.15 in the 50-yard freestyle in 22.85.
Pattison posted a winning time of 54.60 in the 100-yard butterfly and 54.25 in the 100-yard backstroke.
Emma Karam shattered the pool record in the 200-yard backstroke by 2.58 with a time of 1:56.66, winning the event by four seconds over freshman teammate Mary Macaulay.
Macauley earned her first win as a Tar Heel in the 200 IM with a time of 2:03.36, as did freshman Ava Muzzy in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:56. Lily Reader (1000 free), Michelle Morgan (200 free) and Ellie VanNote (200 fly) also earned victories.
Van Note set the pool record in the women’s 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:58.89, while Sebastian Lunak duplicated the feat on the men’s side with a mark of 1:47.71.
Freshman Ben Delmar, Louis Dramm, and Matthew Van Deusen were each multi-event winners on the men’s side.
Delmar swept the breaststroke events for the second consecutive dual meet, winning the 100-yard breaststroke by 0.70 with a time of 55.27 and setting the pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:57.33.
Dramm was triumphant in the 100 and 200-yard freestyle, narrowly winning the 100 by 0.21 with a time of 45.39 before winning the 200 by nearly two seconds with a mark of 1:38.01. He also swam the anchor leg for the victorious 200-yard freestyle relay squad.
Van Deusen touched 0.01 ahead of Delmar to win the 200-yard IM in 1:51.16 after distancing the field by 0.65 in the 200-yard backstroke.
Walker Davis (100 back), Tiesyn Harris (50 free), Patrick Hussey (500 free), Boyd Poelke (100 fly), and Keith Williams (1000 free) were single-event winners.
Reigning NCAA women’s diving champion Aranza Vazquez Montano was victorious in her first competitions of the season, sweeping the one and three-meter springboard events. UNC senior Alex Hart won the men’s three-meter competition, and freshman Rodolfo Vazquez Montano claimed victory in the one-meter event.
The Tar Heels return to competition on Nov. 3 against South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.
Courtesy: UNCW Athletics
WILMINGTON, N.C. – UNCW’s men’s swimming and diving team dropped its first dual meet of the season as North Carolina knocked off the Seahawks on Friday at Hanover Hall. UNC finished off a sweep of the Seahawks with a win in the women’s meet.
The Tar Heels improved to 2-0 on both sides while the Seahawks slipped to 3-1 on the men’s side and the women dropped to 1-3.
Gil Shaw and Aidan Duffy won the women’s and men’s 200 IM, respectively, and the Seahawks won both sides of the 200 Free Relay.
The Seahawks visit Duke for their final dual meets of the fall semester on Oct. 27 at 4 p.m.
Scores
Women: North Carolina 215, UNCW 80
Men: North Carolina 197, UNCW 96
Chapel Hill tapered for this meet to make a statement
That is just absolutely not true. They had a full week of workout and lifted the day before the meet. Ignorant comment
Gangloff rested them 3 days prior get your facts straight
UNC was in no way rested for this meet.
citation: I am on the team
Weren’t the men’s teams ranked equally this month?