GWU Women, George Mason Men Looking to Defend A-10 Titles This Week

2021 ATLANTIC-10 CHAMPIONSHIPS

The 2021 Atlantic-10 Conference Championships for men’s and women’s swimming & diving begin tomorrow in Ohio with the 200 medley relay and 800 free relay timed finals. Diving, meanwhile, will be held separately at George Mason University on Thursday and Friday.

On the women’s side, George Washington will try to defend their 2020 A-10 title after scoring 608 points at last year’s meet. Fordham (533) and Duquesne (525) were not far behind. For the men, George Mason will look to defend their title, as they were able to just get by George Washington last year with a score of 657 to George Washington’s 636.

The George Washington men look very good on the psychs, which spells trouble for George Mason. GWU holds the top four seeds in the 500 free, 100 back and 200 back, five of the top six seeds in the 200 free, and a number of other top seeds sprinkled throughout.

Meanwhile, the women’s psychs are much harder to get a feel for how the team race might look, other than very competitive. A host of teams have strong events or top seeds, but it’s Davidson College, a team that finished fifth last year, who hold top seeds in four out of the five relays and several individual top seeds.

George Washington’s Karol Mlynarczyk is one of the big names to watch for the men; he has top seeds in the 100 back (46.97) and 100 fly (47.98) along with the 200 back (1:43.91). The Polish freshman is in striking distance of A-10 records in all three events. For the women, Davidson junior Siena Senn holds dominant top seeds in the 500 free (4:53.82) and 200 free (1:49.48), while Jacquee Clabeaux of George Mason and Duquesne freshman Laura Goettler should match-up for some good battles in breaststroke.

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Big Lou
3 years ago

If you ain’t got Mason your times a wastin’

Sid Frisco
Reply to  Big Lou
3 years ago

I don’t know…I watched the A10 hoops tourney.

AA Senn
3 years ago

GO SIENA!!

AA Senn
Reply to  AA Senn
3 years ago

Incredible race Siena Senn – way to turn it up at 350.

Last edited 3 years ago by AA Senn
swimswammy
3 years ago

Look out for King Walter On George Mason. He is going to be a force to be reckoned with this meet. You all are also overlooking all the No Times entered and the fact that no team but GW had a mid season meet, which is why they have all the high seeds.

Admin
Reply to  swimswammy
3 years ago

How many different usernames are you going to use? Hype up your teammates all you want – but stick to one username to do it, please.

horses
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

there are many of us gearge mason fans all logging on to make sure our team has the morale they need in these tough covid times

Admin
Reply to  horses
3 years ago

One of your friends wasn’t clever enough to even change his email address to pretend like it wasn’t the same person ;-).

Big Hoss
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

my bad

Last edited 3 years ago by Big Hoss
Andrew
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

hahaha

Thetruth
Reply to  horses
3 years ago

Morale alone clearly doesn’t win it

Last edited 3 years ago by Thetruth
Not Braden Keith
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

I think it’s ridiculous that only 1 team in the conference is fully funded and gets the crazy fast swimmers when they come in as freshmen! Everybody else has to develop their swimmers!

Admin
Reply to  Not Braden Keith
3 years ago

Lol so you think George Washington should defund their swim program?

Ice cold take. This might be the worst take we’ve had in the comments in a longgggggg time.

Andrew
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

first take with stephen a. smith and not braden keith

Horses
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

Yes the school would be better for it

Dave
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

I’m just saying when I have to work to pay my tuition, bills and rent while swimming it’s a little harder then being handed a bag am I right?

Not Braden Keith
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

Never said anything about defunding a swim team. It is unfair when they are fully funded and get to recruit 20 year old freshmen who have gotten on the podium at Polish Nationals!

Be better

Swimfan
Reply to  Not Braden Keith
3 years ago

Life’s not fair. Embrace the challenge like last years team did.

Sid Frisco
Reply to  Not Braden Keith
3 years ago

So it’s GW’s fault they are fully funded. what would have them do so it’s “fair”? Seriously, quit whining.
Be better.

DCSwim
Reply to  Not Braden Keith
3 years ago

This is the same argument ppl in the comments had when Andrea Bolognesi swam at GW smh

Thetruth
Reply to  DCSwim
3 years ago

Who is that

Sid Frisco
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

Mic drop. Thanks for coming….

coachymccoachface
Reply to  Not Braden Keith
3 years ago

Yeah some schools should use the fact their school is half the price and has an incredible facility on campus to recruit better swimmers from one of the fastest areas in the country.

John
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

Braden, is there going to be a story about the MAC Women’s Championship starting tomorrow?

free the MAAC
Reply to  Braden Keith
3 years ago

George Washington may have silly things like a scholarship advantage but George Mason winning the real battle in burner accounts

Kim
3 years ago

Why did GW entered their swimmers in every event?

Sid frisco
Reply to  Kim
3 years ago

To keep em guessing.

oldmanva
3 years ago

Where are the psych sheets?

Rich
Reply to  oldmanva
3 years ago

Answering my own question – live results now has the entries.

Dave
3 years ago

Lol sounds like GW is going to have another year of disappointment after all the money they paid to lose another championship.

big e
3 years ago

i think people are really underestimating Rigatoni on Mason. Under rated in my opinion, swimmer to watch.

Swimmer52
3 years ago

If you look at the psych sheets closely, GW does hold a lot of the top seeds. They also have lot of their swimmers entered in more than the number of allowed events and will have to scratch a bunch. It will be a close meet between GW and GMU.

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Karl Ortegon

Karl Ortegon studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, graduating in May of 2018. He began swimming on a club team in first grade and swam four years for Wesleyan.

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