FSU Dominates Quad Meet With UNF, Florida Southern & West Florida

TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  – The Florida State swimming and diving teams picked up four wins on Friday at the Morcom Aquatics Center.

The men’s team (1-0) defeated Florida Southern (192-69) and the women (3-0) were victorious over West Florida (224-73), North Florida (238.00) and FSC (232-59).

“We swam very well today,” FSU head coach Neal Studd said. “We had quite a few highlights throughout the meet and we’re very pleased with the effort and attention to detail. Tomorrow is going to be a big day for us. We haven’t hosted a big opponent like Georgia at Morcom in a couple of years, so we’ll have to bring our energy and create an awesome atmosphere and be ready.”

On short rest, the Seminoles will host No. 7/15 Georgia on Saturday at 12 p.m.

The women won 14 events on the day, while the men picked up 12.

After a sweep of the 200 medley relay, Ella Dyjak posted a 10-second victory in the 1000 free, touching at 10:20.40.

Sophie Freeman added two wins, placing first in the 200 free (1:51.45) ahead of Edith Jernstedt (1:52.23).  Freeman also won the 200 back (2:00.66) touching ahead of Jaden Herbet in second place (2:04.93).

Herbet led the way in the 100 back (56.52), finishing first ahead of Sydney Cole (58.74) in second and Natalie Peterson in third (59.37).

Rachel Moran (1:05.64) and Malaika Schneider (1:06.09) added a one-two showing in the 100 breast and Sarah Evans (23.54) and Alexandra Dicks (23.92) followed with another in the 50 free.

After the break, Evans added another victory in the 100 free (51.40) ahead of Brooke Arnold (51.89) in second and Phoebe Griffiths (52.03) in third.

The Noles added another sweep, as Sydney VanOvermeiren (2:21.36) outlasted Anna Metzler (2:21.86) for the win, ahead of Moran (2:22.29) in third.

Julia Brzozowski made her debut in the Garnet and Gold, leading wire-to-wire in the 500 free, touching at 5:02.51.

Aryanna Fernandes was the winner in the 200 IM, touching with a time of 2:05.87 ahead of Julia Mansson (2:09.54) in second place.

The ladies closed out the meet with a win in the 200 free relay behind Dicks, Gloria Muzito, Freeman and Zsofia Kurdi with a time of 1:34.12.

Samantha Vear led the Noles in diving, winning both springboard events.

Vear started with a victory on 1-meter (301.88) finishing ahead of Izzy Gregersen in second (290.55) and Jessica Buntman (270.15) in third.  On 3-meter, Vear turned in the top score of 336.90, ahead of Vivian Johnson (322.13) and Gregersen (319.50) for the sweep.

“For our first meet of the year I am very excited with how our women performed,” FSU head diving coach John Proctor said. “I think this is a sign of good things to come.”

The men also opened the meet with a sweep of the 200 medley relay.

Zach Smith posted an eight-second victory in the 1000 free, touching at 9:24.31.

Yordan Yanchev added two wins, first taking the 200 free (1:38.40) ahead of Jack Hall (1:40.12) in second and David Quirie (1:41.51) in third.  Yanchev later added a victory in the 100 free (44.60), holding off Varis Monroe (44.72) in second and Aziz Ghaffari (45.29) in third.

Monroe’s time was a career-best.

Max Wilson made his debut for the Noles, touching first in the 100 back at 48.84 behind a personal best, ahead of Arijus Pavlidi (49.05) in second.

Mason Herbet (55.50) out-touched Marcos Egri-Martin (55.84) for the win in the 100 breast and Smith added another victory, winning the 200 fly at 1:50.80.

The Noles were dominant in the 50 free, led by Peter Varjasi (19.82), Jokubas Keblys (20.73) in second and Blake Moran (20.76) in third.

FSU went one-two in the 200 back, led by Tyler Hanley (1:51.52) and Quirie (1:52.07).

Brennan Hammond (49.31) led the sweep of the 100 fly, ahead of Auben Nugent (50.13) and Carlos Vasquez (50.48).

Varjasi picked up his second win, touching at 1:48.25 in the 200 IM before the Noles swept the 200 free relay to close out the meet.

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