Courtesy: Emmanuel College Athletics
FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. – The Emmanuel College Men’s swim team hosted the 7th annual EC Invite on Saturday October 5, 2019. This year’s invite was a quad meet. Competing teams included Milligan, Lagrange, and Point.
The Emmanuel Lions finished 1st overall and 1st in all 11 events contested.
NCAA national qualifying times earned: Alex Sobers (200 free), Igor Dantas (50 free, 100 fly) and Joao Santos (100 breast)
Top 10 individual national rankings:
- Alex Sobers 1st (200 free), 6th (500 free)
- Igor Dantas 1st (100 fly), 2nd (50 free)
- Thiago Rosa 4th (50 free), 4th (100 back)
- Joao Santos 1st (100 breast), 2nd (100 free)
- Pedro Terra 9th (1000 free)
Top 10 national relay rankings: Dantas, Rosa, Sobers, Santos currently 1st (200 free relay)
RESULTS:
- The 200 medley relay (Jones, Courteaux, Reyman, Brown) finished 1st (1:38.74). The B relay ( McGhee, Roberts, Reiter, Andrews) finished 4th (1:47.28).
- In the 1000 free, Pedro Terra finished 1st (9:59.04), Xzavier Reiter 2nd (10:08.78)
- In the 200 free, Alex Sobers finished 1st (1:36.59), Joshua Varrie 2nd (1:48.33), Simon Roberts 5th (2:01.00)
- In the 50 free, Igor Dantas 1st (20.29), Thiago Rosa 2nd (20.92), Alex Reyman 3rd (22.49)
- In the 200 IM, Alasdair McGhee finished 1st (2:03.30), Robert Jones 2nd (2:05.44), Harrison Andrews 6th (2:19.45)
- In the 100 fly, Igor Dantas finished 1st (48.99), Alex Reyman 2nd (53.73), Xzavier Reiter 3rd (54.49)
- In the 100 free, Joao Santos finished 1st (45.93), Joshua Varrie 2nd (49.30), Harrison Andrews 6th (56.18)
- In the 100 back, Thiago Rosa finished 1st (51.02), Alasdair McGhee 4th (57.40), David Brown 6th (57.99)
- In the 500 free, Alex Sobers finished 1st (4:39.76), Pedro Terra 2nd (4:54.91)
- In the 100 breast, Joao Santos finished 1st (55.45), Theo Courteaux 2nd (1:00.12), Robert Jones 3rd (1:03.01)
- The 200 free A relay (Dantas, Rosa, Sobers, Santos) finished 1st (1:21.21). The B relay (Brown, Varrie, Terra, Courteaux) finished 2nd (1:30.66)
The Emmanuel College Women’s swim team hosted the 7th annual EC Invite on Saturday October 5, 2019. This year’s invite was a quad meet. Competing teams included Milligan, Lagrange, and Point.
The Emmanuel Lady Lions finished 1st overall and 1st in 9 out of the 11 events contested. Finishing with 12 personal best regular season times. 8 different lady Lions earned first place.
RESULTS:
- The 200 medley A relay (Hunter, Simioni, Hayes, Arnold) finished 1st (1:50.86). The B relay (Svonja, Pieterse, Calka, Davidson) finished 2nd (1:58.08)
- In the 1000 free, Zuzanna Malinowska finished 2nd (11:14.47), Margo Koets 3rd (11:24.18), Victoria Carta 4th (11:30.90)
- In the 200 free, Gabriela Aguiar finished 1st (1:56.95), Karolina Ostojska 2nd (1:57.83), Natalia Rodriguez 4th (2:06.04)
- In the 50 free, Carmen Arnold 1st (24.69), Samantha Davidson 2nd (25.03), Lydia Scharff 3rd (25.59)
- In the 200 IM, Julia Simioni finished 1st (2:14.69), Anna Calka 2nd (2:16.53), Paula Chenquer 5th (2:27.71)
- In the 100 fly, Natalie Hayes finished 1st (59.68), Allison Hunter 2nd (1:01.57)
- In the 100 free, Gabriela Aguiar finished 1st (54.42), Karolina Ostojska 2nd (54.97), Natalia Rodriguez 3rd (58.81)
- In the 100 back, Anna Calka finished 1st (1:00.47), Allison Hunter 2nd (1:03.75), Mateja Svonja 3rd (1:04.61)
- In the 500 free, Zuzanna Malinowska finished 2nd (5:32.85), Victoria Carta 3rd (5:45.68)
- In the 100 breast, Julia Simioni finished 1st (1:08.12), Paula Chenquer 2nd (1:12.90), Denita Pieterse 5th (1:19.53)
- The 200 free A relay (Aguiar, Arnold, Davidson, Ostojska) finished 1st (1:39.83). The C relay (Carta, Koets, Malinowska, Koets) finished 2nd (1:48.72)
Next up, the Lions head to Converse College in Spartanburg, SC on Saturday October 12 for the Converse Relays Invite.
