BALTIMORE - The UMBC women's and men's swimming and diving teams will make their long-awaited home debuts when they host the VMI Keydets on Saturday, Nov. 12. The action gets underway at 1:30 p.m., but the student-athletes will honor several UMBC professors on Professor Appreciation Day at 1:15 p.m.
Live results will be available through the Meet Mobile app and via UMBC Swimming & Diving's Twitter account of @umbcswimdive.
Both squads have not been in the water since October 22. After a planned week off, the meet at Towson on Nov. 5 was postponed.
Juniors
Bode Neale and
Dani Nicusan highlighted an excellent effort by the UMBC men's swimming and diving squads at Navy on Oct. 22. Neale earned UMBC's lone gold of the meet, winning the 50 freestyle in a time of 21.07. He shaved .23 seconds off of his third place time of a week ago and matched
Tiago Asakawa's winning time in that meet at NJIT.
Nicusan set a UMBC school record in the 100 yard individual medley, posting a mark of 51.40 to finish third in the event. He bested the previous record of 51.58, held by recently-inducted UMBC Athletics Hall of Famer Mohamed Hussein, '14. Graduate student
Tiago Asakawa was not far behind Nicusan, placing fifth with a mark of 51.70.
Senior
Ethan Riser turned in an excellent effort in the 200 butterfly, placing third (1:53.8) and shaving nearly a second off of his winning time of a week ago.
Freshman diver
Anders Logas recorded a season high score of 264.53 in the 3-meter diving competition.
UMBC hosted VMI in 2021 and came away with a 227-70 victory.
To cap the meet, the quartet of
Tiago Asakawa, Ryan Harding, Gabe Laracuente and Niklas Weigelt completed the 200 yard freestyle relay in a time of 1:22.98, setting a new school record The previous mark of 1:23.43 was set in 2019 by a foursome which also included Asakawa.
The record capped a big day for Weigelt, who also captured the unlikely combo of the 50 (21.17) and 500 freestyle (4:41.92) events. Sophomore diver
Dom Tobin won both diving events, earning his first two collegiate golds. He amassed 248.48 points on the 1-meter board and 225.65 on the 3-meter board.
Two other members of the record-setting relay squad earned first-place finishes. Asakawa won the 100 freestyle in a time of 46.86, while Laracuente edged him for first place in the 100 butterfly (50.37).
Other winners for UMBC were;
- Senior Jimmy Dwyer – 200 free (1:45.19)
- Junior Charles Bennici – 200 backstroke (1:59.51)
- Junior Dani Nicusen– 200 breast (2:08.92)
UMBC heads to East Meadow, N.Y. an attempt to defend their title in the ECAC Winter Championships on Dec. 2-4.
