UMBC-Bucknell Results
BALTIMORE – The UMBC swimming and
diving teams combined to win 25 events in their season-opening
exhibition with Bucknell, Saturday afternoon at the
newly-refurbished UMBC Aquatic Complex.
Senior captain Jennifer
Kotonias (Burtonsville, Md./Academy of Holy Cross) led the
way for the women's team with individual victories in the 100-yd.
and 400-yd. IM, as well as the 100 fly. She also helped
the 200 medley relay team to a win as the Retrievers swept the
relays by also claiming the 200 free relay.
Kotonias' co-captain Claire
Barron (Lowestoft, England/Benjamin Britten/New Orleans)
also had a strong meet for UMBC, winning the 50 and 200-yd
breaststoke events, and helping the victorious 200 medley
team. Classmate Tara
Morrissette (Somersworth, N.H./Saint Thomas Aquinas) also
won multiple events, earning first place in the 50 and 200 fly.
Senior Amy
Fay (Haverhill, Mass./Haverhill) returned from an arm
injury to win the 200 free while junior Erika
Ronning (Western Springs, Ill./Lyons Township) earned four
total wins, capturing the 50 and 100 free events, in addition to
anchoring both relays. Junior Talor
Tadena (Orangevale, Calif./Bella Vista) also picked up a win,
taking the 100-yd. breaststroke.
On the men's side, sophomore Rob
Breen (Danvers, Mass./St. John's Prep) and junior Johan Rohtla (Tallinn, Estonia/Tallin Secondary
Science) each picked up three individual wins. Breen
captured the 200, 500, and 1,000-yd. free events while Rohtla swept
the backstroke events while also leading off for the 200 medley
team which won.
Pierre De Waal (Pretoria, South Africa/Tuks
Sport/Cleveland State) started off his senior year well, sweeping
butterfly events while classmates Steve Gallagher (Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson)
and Mohamed Hussein (Cairo, Egypt/Victory College) won
the 50 breaststroke and 100 IM, respectively.
The Retrievers return to the pool in two weeks when the squads
host Rider, as well as the James Madison women's team on Oct. 13
for Parents' Weekend.
