2025 PITT RELAYS
- October 11, 2025
- Pittsburgh, Pa.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: Pitt Athletics
PITTSBURGH — The Pitt men’s and women’s swimming teams opened the season with dominant wins over Carnegie Mellon and Duquesne on Saturday, Oct. 11, at Trees Pool.
The Panthers earned first-place finishes in all 14 events and swept seven, including six on the women’s side. Junior Sydney Gring and sophomore Alex Bauer competed in every event throughout the meet.
It marks the second-straight year Pitt has started its season with a victory.
The Panthers will return to action next weekend, sending select individuals to the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup from Oct. 17–19. Pitt will be back at Trees Pool on Oct. 24–25 to host Penn State.
Courtesy: Carnegie Mellon Athletics
(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – The Carnegie Mellon University women’s swimming and diving team opened the 2025-26 season at the University of Pittsburgh for a relay meet against the Division I Panthers and Duquesne University.
Inside the Results
- The 200-yard medley relay started the event with a seventh-place showing behind a swim of 1:49.44 from senior Savannah Xu, senior Audrey Lambert, freshman Audrey Gil, and senior Grace Malinger.
- The 500-yard crescendo relay was next with the Tartans placing sixth in 4:49.84. Gil led off while junior Anna Zaniolo, freshman Victoria Sun, and freshman Chloe Mihaly closed the event.
- The 3×100-yard butterfly relay of Xu, Gil, and senior Audrey Soetanto placed second in 2:54.43.
- Lambert, Sun, and freshman Tran Doan swam the 3×100-yard breaststroke relay and placed fourth in 3:25.28.
- Xu, sophomore Yuchen Zhou, and sophomore Olivia Giuffre swam the 3×100-yard backstroke relay and finished in 2:51.10 to place fourth.
- Up next was the 400-yard medley relay. Lambert, Soetanto, Xu, and Gil combined for a time of 4:06.08 to place fourth.
- The women’s 200-yard freestyle relay of Gil, Giuffre Sun, and Malinger took sixth in 1:39.49.
Up Next
The divers will go to Kenyon College on Friday, October 17 through Saturday, October 18, while the swimmers head to Washington and Lee University on Saturday, October 18 for an 11:00 a.m. start.
(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) – The Carnegie Mellon University men’s swimming and diving team opened the 2025-26 season at the University of Pittsburgh for a relay meet against the Division I Panthers.
Inside the Results
- The 200-yard medley relay started the event with a third-place showing behind a swim of 1:32.60 from senior Arnav Deshpande, junior Aaron Lee, junior Brayden Morford, and sophomore Matthew Peitler.
- The 500-yard crescendo relay was next with the Tartans placing fourth in 4:07.02. Deshpande led off while Peitler, junior Cole Venters, and junior Jacob Quan closed the event.
- The 3×100-yard butterfly relay of Morford, junior Austin Lathrop, and junior Giulio Migliarina placed second in 2:29.71.
- Junior Andy Lu, junior Jerry Chu, and Lee swam the 3×100-yard breaststroke relay and placed third in 2:57.20.
- Morford, sophomore Matvey Malinovski, and freshman Max Gu swam the 3×100-yard backstroke relay and finished in 2:29.51 to place second. Morford’s split of 24.81 led the field.
- Up next was the 400-yard medley relay. Gu, Migliarina, Lu, and Malinovski combined for a time of 3:32.39 to place third.
- The men’s 200-yard freestyle relay of Morford, Peitler, freshman Noah Barrett,and Malinovski took second in 1:23.37.
Up Next
The divers will go to Kenyon College on Friday, October 17 through Saturday, October 18, while the swimmers head to Washington and Lee University on Saturday, October 18 for an 11:00 a.m. start.
Courtesy: Duquesne Athletics
Pittsburgh, Pa. – The Duquesne University swimming team opened its 2025–26 season on Saturday, competing at the Pitt Relays against the host Panthers and Carnegie Mellon.
The 200-yard medley relay opened the action on Saturday, as the team of sophomores Sierra Snow and Jess Burns, along with freshmen Kira Schrecongost and Lucy Backus, placed fourth with a time of 1:47.07. Close behind, the quartet of sophomore Ashley Freel, junior Sydney Severini, and sophomores Rachel Howard and Kaitlyn Connors took fifth, finishing in 1:48.05.
In the 500-yard freestyle relay, the Dukes placed two teams in the top five. The quartet of Backus, Connors, junior Lexi Sundgren, and Snow finished fourth with a time of 4:39.33, while senior Katie Simpson, Howard, junior Julia Sobun, and Freel followed in fifth at 4:44.49. The 3×100 butterfly relay was next, with Howard, Schrecongost, and Freel combining for a fourth-place finish in 2:54.20.
The Dukes brought home a bronze in the 3×100 breaststroke relay, as the team of Burns, sophomore Surrena Luna, and Severini touched the wall in 3:20.10. Duquesne added a fifth-place finish in the same event from Schrecongost, Snow, and Freel, who finished in 3:29.86. Later in the afternoon, Snow, freshman Norah Kotnik, and Freel took fifth in the 3×100 backstroke relay with a time of 2:51.11. The 200 yard freestyle wrapped up competition with Connors, freshman Emily Kyre, Howard, and freshman Lucy Backus touching the wall at 1:37.01 to be tabbed fourth.
QUOTABLE
“This meet was a great opportunity to test our resiliency,” head coach David Sheets said. “Most of the swimmers did all of the relays, so being able to get up and race back-to-back-to-back through seven events on short rest was a challenge. The one thing we stressed before the meet was being able to put it all out there regardless of how they felt as the meet progressed. I think the ladies did that. We also got to get a nice glimpse of our freshmen outside of a practice environment and see how they would respond. Overall, we are in a good place, we will keep working hard, focus on getting better, and continue to focus on building a great team environment.”
UP NEXT
The Duquesne swimming and diving team will be back in action on Friday, Oct. 17 and Saturday, Oct. 18 when it travels to Hampton, Va. to compete at the Richmond Duals.
