The UMBC Swimming & Diving team returns to the pool for the first time since December 7 when it heads to Philadelphia to face La Salle on Friday at 12 p.m.

Last time out, Anders Logas won the Men's 3 Meter and Alicia Buteau had an impressive second place finish in the Women's 3 Meter as the UMBC Diving team had a strong showing against visiting Loyola and Towson on Saturday morning. 

"I was excited to host our first ever dive invitational of my tenure at UMBC," said head Diving Coach Jeff Fisher. "Our divers had mixed success in the meet, with some high level performances along with some frustrating disappointments. Many of our athletes are fighting through injuries and working to improve their competition mindset. That being said, we still saw some great dives and some personal best final scores. We are looking broadly at this meet as a fantastic learning experience - yet another opportunity to hone our skills and increase our ability to compete at the highest level possible. Our divers are in a very good position at this point in the season and we are poised to be in an even stronger position coming into the second half of the season and on into the Conference Championships."

Logas won the 3 Meter with a score of 266.95, while Grant Moore took third with 248.95. Alicia Buteau scored 241.10 in the event to take second, she took fourth in the 1 Meter with a score of 234.75. Kaleb Cave used a score of 279.95 to finish second in the 1 Meter on the Men's side.

On the swimming side that day, Boris Milev broke a 21 year old pool record set by Michael Phelps as the UMBC Men's Swimming team reset seven different pool records 

Cave and Milev were honored by the America East Conference on Tuesday afternoon. Cave was named the Diver and Rookie of the Week, while Milev was named Swimmer of the Week.

Kave placed second in the 1-meter diving event with a personal best 279.95, while Milev was part of three pool records, including a new 100 free record in 44.74, which broke Michael Phelps' 21 year-old pool record.

Milev was the starter on the 400 Free Relay and his 100 time of 44.74 broke Phelps' UMBC Aquatic Complex mark of 45.11 that had stood since 2003. Milev was joined in the relay by Sean Neils, Christian Coleman and Bode Neale to finish in a new pool record time of 3:00.23, to break the previous mark of 3:02.66 set by UMBC in 2020. 

"Our pool has a long history filled with Olympic Champions and world record holders," said head coach Matt Donovan. "To stand toe to toe with them today is a tremendous honor. This team is great at embracing challenges. Going ten for ten (overall) on pool relay records was a tall order and we did it. This was a total team effort. Every member of this team had a hand in our success today. I could not be more proud of this group. What an amazing day to be a Retriever!"

In the first race of the meet, the 200 Medley Relay team of Ryan Harding, Coleman, Oliver Gassmann and Neils won in 1:28.76 to best the previous mark of 1:30.40 set by UMBC in 2018.

Milev would again break a pool record when leading off a relay, as his starting 200 Free time in the 800 Free Relay of 1:38.31 reset the the top mark previously held by Ilya Rattsev's 1:39.62 in 2020. Andrew McEachern, Neale and Marko Kovacic would follow Milev in the relay to set a new pool record time of 6:39.45, smashing the previous record of 6:44.84 set by UMBC in 2020.

Neils, Coleman, Gassmann and Neale would set a new pool record in the 200 Free Relay with a time of 1:21.93, previously held by UMBC in 2022 (1:22.98).

In the very next event, Kovacic, Coleman, Gassmann and Milev would then set a new pool record in the 400 Medley Relay with a time of 3:18.60. The mark they beat was set by UMBC in 2020 with a time of. 3:21.64.

On the Women's side, the Dawgs went five-for-five in breaking UMBC Aquatic Complex pool records/

The first race of the day broke the first record of the day as Bruna de Padua, Elze Bielskute, Nicol Davanzo and Ashley Gutshall won the 200 Medley Relay in 1:43.80, besting the previous mark of 1:45.30 set by UMBC in 2015.

Minutes later, de Padua, Nicole Lopez Kohlmann, Megan Gangaway and Claire Oettinger set the 800 Free Relay pool record in a time of 7:35.12 to beat the previous best of 7:37.92 set in 2005 by New Hampshire.

Gutshall, Lopez Kohlmann, Oettinger and Makaela Hill would then break the pool record in the 200 Free Relay with a time of 1:34.42. The mark was previously held by the 2005 New Hampshire team who finished in 1:36.32.

In the very next event, de Padua, Bielskute, Davanzo and Hill broke the 400 Medley Relay record with a time of 3:48.49, to beat the previous best of 3:50.00 set by UMBC in 2019.

The final record of the day was broken in the final event of the day as de Padua, Hill, Gutshall and Oettinger completed the 400 Free Relay in 3:24.83 to smash the previous pool best mark of 3:29.20 which was set by Navy in 2015.