GEORGIA TECH VS EMORY
- October 11, 2025
- Atlanta, Ga.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: GA Tech Athletics
ATLANTA – The Georgia Tech swimming and diving teams won their opening dual meet of the season at Emory with convincing wins for the men’s team, 218-81, and women’s team, 185.5-111.5. Max Fowler recorded top-10 school history marks in both diving events.
Tech won 27 of the 32 total events with 17 different event winners and swept all four relay races. Lukas Vetkoetter won all three individual races he competed in with five total Jackets recording multiple individual victories.
After winning both 400-yard medley relays, the Jackets had the lead finisher in 10 of the next 12 races before the first round of diving. All 10 race winners were different athletes.
GT dominated the first slate of diving with all five competitors placing ahead of Emory. Senior Katie McKyton scored a 286.13 to top the women’s one-meter event while Max Fowler earned a 388.35 to finish 50 points clear of the next score. Fowler’s dive is the 10th-highest scored dive off the three-meter in school history; he already holds two marks on the all-time list including the second and fifth-best dives in the discipline.
Tech kept its foot on the gas, sealing eight of the next 10 events including Phoebe Wright winning the 200-yard backstroke race by six seconds. The senior cracked the top-10 school leaderboard with the seventh-fastest time on record.
All three divers swept the podium in the women’s three-meter with NC State transfer Elisabeth Rockefeller leading the way with a 294.30 score. Fowler continued his form with a 370.28 score in the one-meter discipline, setting another top-10 with the seventh-highest score in the event in school history. The junior already holds the all-time program record.
Georgia Tech will return to its home pool for the inaugural Dual Meet Tournament from October 17-18. Eight total teams will compete for the ultimate prize with 12 total meets across the weekend. Tickets are available online at buzz.gt/TDMT.
Full Tech Winners’ List
400Y Medley Relay:
- W: Tech A (3:46.72)
- M: Tech A (3:16.72)
1000Y Free:
- M: Lukas Vetkoetter (9:34.59)
200Y Free:
- W: Giovana Reis (1:49.79)
- M: Vitor Sega (1:38.72)
100Y Back:
- W: Vivien Rothwell (55.06)
- M: Chris Richardson (49.52)
100Y Breast:
- W: Annabel Smith (1:03.41)
- M: Joao Caballero (55.71)
200Y Fly
- M: Tuncer Berk Ertürk (1:48.71)
50Y Free:
- W: Nina Stanisavljević (23.36)
- M: Robin Yeboah (20.47)
Diving 1
- W 1M: Katie McKyton (286.13)
- M 3M: Max Fowler (388.35)
200Y Back:
- W: Phoebe Wright (1:57.73)
- M: Chris Richardson (1:50.36)
200Y Breast:
- W: Annabel Smith (2:20.14)
- M: Tobin Uhl (2:01.83)
500Y Free:
- M: Lukas Vetkoetter (4:33.30)
100Y Fly:
- W: Zara Masud (54.67)
Diving 2:
- W 3M: Elisabeth Rockefeller (294.30)
- M 1M: Max Fowler (370.28)
400Y IM:
- M: Lukas Vetkoetter (3:59.55)
200Y Free Relay:
- W: Tech A (1:33.74)
- M: Tech A (1:22.68)
Courtesy: Emory Athletics
The Emory University swimming & diving teams were back in the pool Saturday afternoon, hosting crosstown foe Georgia Tech in dual meet action at the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center in Atlanta.
Competing against their Division I counterparts, the Eagles held their own with Emory athletes collecting a total of five event wins on the afternoon and turned in a pair of NCAA B Cut times. The Yellow Jackets secured wins on both ends of meet with the women recording a 185.5-111.5 result and the men defeating the Eagles, 218-81.
For the Emory women, sophomore Elodie Mitchell was a standout performer once again as she seized two of the team’s wins on the afternoon. Mitchell lowered her season-best time in the 200 Fly for the win, touching with a NCAA qualifying mark of 2:02.01, before dominating in the 500 Freestyle, winning by close to five seconds at 5:03.28.
The Eagles added two event wins on the women’s slate with senior Morgan Main leading the 1000 Freestyle field with time of 10:36.18 and in the 400 IM, classmate Meredith Liu threw down a 4:32.24 for the win.
Junior Hayden Tupper was one of the headliners for the Emory men in the pool on Saturday as he secured the lone event win with his leading time in the 100 Freestyle, touching first at 46.02. Additionally, classmate McKee Thorsen registered the men’s first NCAA B Cut of the season with his mark of 1:48.80 in the 200 Fly, narrowly coming in second by .09 seconds in a wire-to-wire battle.
To go along with the team’s four wins, the women’s team saw second place finishes turned in by Liu in the 1000 Free (10:42.45), sophomore Maddy Lu in the 100 Breaststroke (1:06.04), junior Emma Lunn in the 200 Backstroke (2:03.88), sophomore Allison Greeneway in the 100 Fly (56.11) and the 200 Freestyle Relay team of Greeneway, sophomores Caitlin Crysel, Stephanie Lee and senior Ava Kennedy (1:35.48).
On the men’s side, the Eagles had runner-up efforts turned in by sophomore Zachary Spicer in the 100 Backstroke (50.98), senior Henri Bonnault in the 100 Breaststoke (56.05) and Thorsen in the 100 Fly (49.07). Spicer and Bonnault also led a total of seven third place finishes as Spicer touched at 1:53.39 in the 200 Backstroke and Bonnault finished at 2:07.58 in the 200 Breaststroke.
Thorsen aided in the relay efforts as well as he was part of Emory’s A teams that finished third in both the 400 Medley and 200 Freestyle. Thorsen, Bonnault, Tupper and sophomore Colin Zexter combined for a mark of 3:18.35 in the 400 Medley and in the 200 Freestyle, Thorsen and Tupper teamed with sophomore Connor McHugh and freshman Fred Brown for time of 1:23.78.
For diving events, reigning UAA Athletes of the Week graduate student Ariana Khan and sophomore Solly Berkenwald paced the Eagles with Khan taking fourth in both events and Berkenwald finishing inside the top three for the men. Khan scored 252.60 on the 1-meter followed by 259.58 on the 3-meter. Berkenwald started his day with a 320.78 score on the 3-meter before notching 323.55 on the 1-meter.
Emory will be off next weekend before traveling to Sewanee, Tennessee to take on the Sewanee Tigers in more dual action on Saturday, October 25th.
