Ryan Held & NC State Headline OSU Invitational

Karl Ortegon
by Karl Ortegon 4

November 16th, 2017 News

2017 OHIO STATE INVITATIONAL

The 2017 Ohio State Invitational will kick off tomorrow morning for three days of competition.

PARTICIPATING TEAMS:

  • Ohio State
  • NC State
  • Kenyon
  • Notre Dame
  • West Virginia
  • Pitt
  • Yale
  • Penn State
  • Kentucky
  • FGCU (W)
  • Marshall (W)
  • Washington State (W)

There’s a big spread of schools, with Big Ten’s OSU playing host, along with several ACC teams, the SEC’s Kentucky, Ivy League’s Yale, Big 12’s WVU, Pac-12’s WSU, and a couple mid-majors. Division III Kenyon will also be racing in Columbus this weekend.

NC State is the biggest team on the men’s and women’s side, and they’ll clash with hosts OSU, a red-hot Notre Dame team, and Kentucky in a bunch of high-profile races.

Some matchups to look out for on the women’s side include the Kentucky backstroke group taking on ND’s Alice Treuth and NC State’s Elise Haan. Sprinter Abbie Dolan of Notre Dame has been having a breakout year, and she’ll try to defeat NC State’s Ky-lee Perry in a head-to-head battle.

The NC State men will be fun to watch this weekend, led by Ryan Held and Justin Ress, though ND and OSU, especially, might be able to steal some wins from the Wolfpack, along with Penn State thanks to 100 and 200 breast top seed Kaelan Freund. Held is entered in the 50 free, 100 free, 100 fly, and 100 back, while Ress will race the 50 free, 100 free, 200 free, and 100 back.

One standout name who has since departed from the NCAA system is OSU alum Aliena Schmidtke, who is seeded 1st in the 100 fly, 6th in the 50 free, and 6th in the 100 free.

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Sean
6 years ago

anyone else struggling to get the correct live results to come up?

Swimmer
6 years ago

Fear the beard

Uberfan
6 years ago

Held yeah this meet is gonna be awesome. Hopefully they Ress up the day before

ACC fan
Reply to  Uberfan
6 years ago

And on the women’s side NC STATE has Moore talent(s) that will Perry the competition in the Poole!

About Karl Ortegon

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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