2019 TYR ’85 Invite
- November 22-24, 2019
- Annapolis, Md.
- Full Results
Courtesy: Navy Athletics
ANNAPOLIS, Md. –– The Navy swimming and diving teams spent the last few days competing at three-day meets. The men’s swimmers placed fifth at the Purdue Invite, the women’s swimmers won the TYR ’85 Invite, hosted by Liberty, and the divers competed at the unscored West Virginia Invite.
These were the last competitions for the Navy teams prior to the December 12 Army-Navy meet in Annapolis.
Headlining the results this weekend was Sydney Harrington (So., Fairfax, Va.) setting Navy and Patriot League records in each of the butterfly events.
Men’s Swimming – Placed fifth out of six teams at the Purdue Invitational
1 – Louisville – 967; 2 – Purdue – 625; 3 – Pittsburgh – 482; 4 – Grand Canyon – 469; 5 – Navy – 341; 6 – McKendree – 317
Micah Oh (Jr., Kent, Ohio) was the lone Mid to reach the championship final (top-eight) in multiple individual events. He placed fourth in the 400 IM and fifth in the 200 fly.
The best finish by a Mid in an event was a third-place showing by Dean Nguyen (Jr., Seattle, Wash.) in the 100 breaststroke.
“We are very pleased with our performances this week,” said Navy men’s swimming head coach Bill Roberts. “We were expecting this to be a terrific event as it was two years ago when we last participated here. I feel like we did a good job of improving upon our performances from 2017, as well as compared to the start of this season.
“We also want to say ‘thank you’ to our hosts, Purdue. Their staff did a great job of running the event which was highlighted by our service assignment announcement Thursday. That was a very special event for us.”
Championship Finalists
8th – 1:20.79 – 200 freestyle relay – Dean Nguyn, Callen Aulizia, Daniel Cook, Chris Mayer
7th – 1:28.70 – 200 medley relay – James Wilson, Dean Nguyen, Domick Wallace, Chris Mayer
4th – 3:53.96 – 400 individual medley – Micah Oh
7th – 1:38.10 – 200 freestyle – Daniel Cook
8th – 1:37.84 – 200 freestyle – Ryan Waters
3rd – 53.50 – 100 breaststroke – Dean Nguyen
6th – 6:36.54 – 800 freestyle relay – Matthew Fadel, Ryan Waters, Jack Dunworth, Daniel Cook
7th – 15:26.91 – 1650 freestyle – Luke Johnson
6th – 1:47.41 – 200 backstroke – Dominick Wallace
5th – 1:47.58 – 200 butterfly – Micah Oh
7th – 2:59.07 – 400 freestyle relay – Daniel Cook, Jack Dunworth, Matthew Fadel, Dominick Wallace
Men’s and Women’s Diving – No team scoring at the West Virginia Invitational
Navy divers combine to win five of the six contested events. Bradley Buchter (Sr., Hickory, N.C.) won both men’s springboard events, Jake Hedrick (Jr., Hummelstown, Pa.) won the men’s platform event, Hannah Montau (So., Germantown, Md.) won the women’s platform event and Meghan Gerdes (Jr., Spring, Texas) won the women’s three-meter board.
“I’m really proud of how our divers competed this weekend,” said Navy diving coach Rich MacDonald. “It was a good test to see where we are this early in the season. To win five of the six events against the level of competition we faced was pretty awesome. It is always good motivation after a meet like this to get back to training and doing all of the things we need to do to be prepared in the championship portion of our season.”
Championship Finalists
1st – 225.05 – women’s platform – Hannah Montau
1st – 353.50 – men’s platform – Jake Hedrick
1st – 301.95 – women’s three meter – Meghan Gerdes
5th – 264.90 – women’s three meter – Hannah Montau
1st – 380.65 – men’s one meter – Bradley Buchter
3rd – 298.95 – men’s one meter – Patrick Carter
4th – 280.85 – men’s one meter – Jake Hedrick
3rd – 260.65 – women’s one meter – Hannah Montau
1st – 352.20 – men’s three meter – Bradley Buchter
4th – 327.00 – men’s three meter – Jake Hedrick
5th – 306.40 – men’s three meter – Patrick Carter
6th – 298.65 – men’s three meter – Nash Nickerson
Women’s Swimming – Placed first out of nine teams at the TYR ’85 Invite (hosted by Liberty)
1 – Navy – 2,240; 2 – Duquesne – 1,481.5; 3 – Vanderbilt – 1,439.4; 4 – Marshall – 1,240; 5 – James Madison – 1,204.5; 6 – Liberty – 1,154; 7 – Campbell – 894; 8 – North Florida – 655.5; 9 – Saint Francis U. – 507
Harrington not only won three individual events, she did so while breaking school and league and attaining NCAA B cut times in two of them. She won the 100 fly in a time of 53.08, which was under the B cut standard of 53.76, improved upon the Navy record of 53.48 set by Delaney Walz (Sr., Mays Landing, N.J.) last February and broke the league record of 54.40 set by Army’s Ariana Bullard in February, 2014. She would go on to post a time of 1:56.53 in winning the 200 fly. That bettered the B cut standard of 1:59.23 and broke the school and league record of 1:57.06 set by Kelly Huffer (So., Phoenix, Ariz.) last December.
Harrington also won the 200 individual medley at the meet. Joining her with victories were Huffer in the 400 individual medley, Erin Scudder (Sr., Western Springs, Ill.) in the 500 freestyle and Martina Thomas (So., Fayetteville, Ark.) in the 200 free.
“We’re very pleased with the overall performance at our first championship format meet of the season,” said Navy women’s swimming head coach John Morrison. “Our team maintained strong energy throughout each of the six sessions. We are in a good spot for this time of year, but definitely need to clean some things up in the next two weeks.
“We had many swimmers set season-best performances and even some lifetime-best marks. Leading the way was Sydney Harrington. And Jamie Miller (Sr., Rochester Hills, Mich.) also swam to an NCAA provisional time in the 200 back.”
Event Winners
4:52.34 – 500 freestyle – Erin Scudder
2:01.00 – 200 individual medley – Sydney Harrington
3:40.94 – 400 medley relay – Brooke West, Reagan Johnson, Sydney Harrington, Martina Thomas
53.08 – 100 butterfly – Sydney Harrington
4:23.24 – 400 individual medley – Kelly Huffer
1:47.98 – 200 freestyle – Martina Thomas
7:23.08 – 800 freestyle relay – Elly Deas, Ali Kozlina, Erin Scudder, Martina Thomas
1:56.53 – 200 butterfly – Sydney Harrington
