West Virginia Invite
- November 20-22, 2025
- Morgantown, West Virginia
- SCY (25 Yards)
- Participating Teams: West Virginia (Host), Georgetown, Drexel, William & Mary, James Madison, Duquesne, Toledo
- Live Results on Meet Mobile “2025 WVU Mountaineer Invitational”
- Day 1 Results | Day 2 Results
The West Virginia Invitational is two days in, and the West Virginia men hold a commanding lead over Georgetown with 1,656 points to Georgetown’s 1,071.5 points.
The women’s meet is much closer with the William and Mary Women currently holding the lead by just one point over West Virginia at 1,245 points to the Mountaineers’ 1,244.
Women’s Recap
So far the William and Mary women have won three of the four relays over the first two days which contributes to their current meet lead.
They started the meet with a top time in the 200 free relay, coming in about six tenths ahead of the field with their team of Zoe Arakelian (23.65), Lindsay Juhlin (22.94), Sarah Dunham (23.15), and Caroline Burgeson (22.37) swimming 1:32.11 to come in ahead of the Georgetown ‘A’ relays time of 1:32.79.
At the end of day one, they took the top spot in the 400 medley relay with the team of Julie Addison (53.85), Lindsay Juhlin (1:00.09), Lauren Klinefelter (53.76), and Caroline Burgeson (49.97) swimming 3:37.67.
They also won the 200 medley relay to open day two of the meet with the same collection of four swimmers. Addison swam 24.82. Juhlin was 27.85. Klinefelter was 24.10, and Burgeson was 22.58 to finish in 1:39.35.
The 800 freestyle relay went to West Virginia’s team of Maddie Smutny (1:50.81), Olivia Busch (1:50.94), Delia Ostafi (1:50.87), and Gabriela Martin de la Torre (1:48.01) swimming 7:20.63 to touch four tenths ahead of the William and Mary team’s 7:21.03.
William and Mary has had a few individual event winners over the first two days. Caroline Burgeson won the 50 free in 22.69, a new personal best time in the event, dropping from the 22.83 she swam at the 2025 Conference Championships.
Claire Neilly won the women’s 400 IM on day two in 4:18.00, about three seconds off her lifetime best 4:14.71 from the Conference Championships.
Lindsay Juhlin took the 100 breast in 1:01.42. This was a slight add from her prelims time of 1:00.79 which was a new lifetime best in the event. Her prelims swim was the 2nd time this season she dropped in the event with her previous best coming from William and Mary’s meet with George Mason at 1:00.84
The 100 back also went to William & Mary with Julie Addison‘s top time of 53.52 winning by more than a second. This was another new personal best, dropping from her preseason 54.22 from February of this year.
The West Virginia team has not had any individual event winners, but their depth is keeping them in the meet. They have had multiple ‘A’ finalists in numerous events and have taken at least three of the lanes in the ‘A’ final in four of the eight individual events that have swum so far: the 500 free, 200 free, 100 breast, and 100 back.
Other Event Winners
Day 1:
- 500 free: Brittany Corbett (Drexel) — 4:49.11
- 200 IM: Angelica Reali (Georgetown)- 2:01.31
Day 2:
- 100 fly: Megan Ehmefeldt (Drexel)- 53.54
- 200 free: Janne Slegers (Toledo)- 1:48.64
Men’s Recap
The West Virginia men are running away with the meet. They have won two of the four relays, one each day.
They started with the top time in the 400 medley relay on day one. The team of Szymon Mieczkowski (46.80), Erik Petruzzi (29.48), Dragos Ghile (25.63), and Nick Lugo (22.95) swam 3:12.04 to beat the Georgetown ‘A’ relay by three seconds.
The Mountaineers team of Christian Simpson (1:38.65), Max Nielsen (1:37.60), Nick Lugo (1:38.12), Vedaant Madhavan (1:37.36) swam 6:31.73 to come in four seconds ahead of the Drexel team.
There have also been a few individual event winners with Jake Salcedo winning the 500 free in 4:23.80, four hundredths off his lifetime best 4:23.46 from May of 2025.
Szymon Mieczkowski took the 200 IM with his 1:48.72 coming in three tenths ahead of teammate Zsombor Bujdoso‘s 1:49.03. Mieczkowski’s time was a new personal best by a little more than a second from the 1:50.06 he swam in January of 2024.
Mieczkowski also won the men’s 100 backstroke on day two, West Virginia’s only individual event win of the session. This was another new personal best, dropping from the 47.04 he swam in February of 2024.
Drexel won most of the individual events on day two. Sebastian Smith started them off with a win in the 100 fly, touching in 46.48, off his lifetime best of 45.60 from earlier this year in February.
The 400 IM went to Drexel freshman Roko Krpina in 3:53.74, nearly a second ahead of West Virginia’s Zsombor Bujdoso. This was Krpina’s first time swimming the event in SCY.
Fellow freshman Matas Cinga won the 200 free at 1:35.80, which was also his personal best time, dropping from the 1:38.22 he swam at the beginning of November.
Bart Loter took the men’s 100 breast in 53.54, a lifetime best, dropping from the 53.60 he swam at the Coastal Athletic Conference Championship in February.
The Drexel men also won the other two relays that did not go to the West Virginia men. They took the first event of the meet, the 200 freestyle relay, with their ‘A’ relay of Theo Andreopoulos (19.95), Matas Cinga (20.02), Declan Egger (19.87), and Sebastian Smith (19.34) swimming the top time of 1:19.18.
Their 200 medley relay team also took home the win with Theo Andreopoulos (21.79), Bart Loter (24.47), Sebastian Smith (20.74), and Declan Egger (19.50) swimming 1:26.50.
The men’s 50 free is the only event that went to someone from a different team. Owen Watkins won in 19.44, coming in three tenths ahead of William & Mary’s Aiden Bond. This was a new personal best, dropping three tenths from his previous best of 19.71 from the Conference Championships.
Team Scores
Women
- William and Mary — 1,245
- West Virginia — 1,244
- Duquesne — 815.50
- Georgetown — 779
- Drexel — 682.50
Men
- West Virginia — 1,646
- Georgetown — 1,071.50
- Drexel — 1,070.50
- William and Mary — 789
- Clarion — 177
