UIC vs Eastern Illinois
- January 10, 2025
- Chicago, Ill.
- SCY (25 yards)
- Results
Courtesy: UIC Athletics
CHICAGO (Jan. 11, 2024) – The UIC swimming and diving program had a great weekend, collecting four total victories against Eastern Illinois (186-70) (168-90) and Southern Indiana (200.5-85.5) (195-98) at the Flames Natatorium.
COMMENT FROM HEAD COACH ASHLEY DELL
“I’m very proud of the way the team competed in both meets this weekend. It’s not easy having back-to-back meets, especially after a week of hard winter training and they did great. We’re in a really solid place for the rest of the season and I’m excited to celebrate the seniors next Saturday!”
COMMENT FROM ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH/ HEAD DIVING COACH SUSAN BROMBERG
“The divers did great, we had two personal bests with Sami on three-meter and Camryn on one-meter and then five season best scores from Harrison, Cole, Christian and Gabby all on the three-meter, then Kerry on one-meter. You could really see that their hard training over winter break has really paid off and I’m excited to see how the rest of our season plays out.”
NOTABLE PERFORMERS FRIDAY
Men’s
Liam Davis (Naperville, Ill./Plainfield North)
100 Butterfly – 1st place | 51.21
200 Butterfly – 1st place | 1:52.28
Contributed to 1st place team in the 200-medley relay – 1:33.17
Contributed to 1st place team in the 400-freestyle relay – 3:05.92
Daniel Galinski (Elmwood Park, Ill./Elmwood Park)
100 Breaststroke – 1st place | 57.07
200 Breaststroke – 1st place | 2:07.43
Contributed to 1st place team in the 200-medley relay – 1:33.17
Women’s
Bella Drake (Hartland, Wisc./Arrowhead Union)
100 Backstroke – 1st place | 247.50 points
200 Backstroke – 1st place | 266.25 points
Contributed to the 2nd place team in the 200-medley relay – 1:47.50
Molly Kroeger (Easton, Md./Easton)
100 Freestyle – 2nd place | 53.91
200 Freestyle – 1st place | 1:53.21
500 Freestyle – 1st place | 5:02.56
Contributed to 1st place team in the 400-freestyle relay – 3:33.09
Courtesy: EIU Athletics
CHICAGO, Ill. – The Eastern Illinois men’s and women’s swim teams opened up the new year with a meet at UIC in Friday. The men fell by a score of 90-168, while they women lost 70-168.
On the men’s side, Conner Colston and Dismas Dillon both picked up first-place finishes for the Panthers. Colston won the 200 free with a time of 1:42.40, while Dillon took gold in the 50 free with a clip of 21.41.
Colston also picked up a third-place finish in the 100 free with a time of 47.45.
Other EIU men to earn podium finishes included Sebastian Rosales and Gavin Frigon, who finished second (53.24) and third (53.95) in the 100 fly, as well as Andrew Herman and Andrew Simonek, who were second (2:04.86) and third (2:09.20) in the 200 IM.
Nolan Wallace picked up two third-place finishes in the 100 breast (58.90) and 50 free (22.76) while Eddie Meyers clocked a season best time of 9:58.23 to finish third in the 1,000 free. Joseph Wyatt also earned a bronze with a time of 1:59.60 in the 200 fly.
For the women, Corinne Staneart and Autumn Grinter led the charge with a trio of top-three finishes each. Staneart placed second in the 200 breast (2:25.36) and 200 IM (2:13.93), while picking up a bronze in the 100 breast (1:08.18)
Grinter also collected a pair of second-place finishes in the 50 free (24.57) and 100 fly (1:00.56) while adding a third-place performance in the 100 free (54.52).
Meanwhile, Kaylan Ottosen picked up a couple of third-place finishes in the 200 free (2:02.05) and 100 fly (1:01.93)
Eastern’s meet at Lewis originally scheduled for Saturday was canceled. The Panthers will be back in action on Friday as they host Lewis at Padovan Pool. Competition is set to get underway at 4 p.m.
