NEW ROCHELLE, NY - The Iona College men's and women's swimming & diving teams kicked off the 2018-19 season with a pair of resounding victories against Southern Connecticut State University. Both the men and women captured 13 out of the 14 swimming events. The Iona women claimed a 210-74 victory and the Iona men posted a 198.5 to 81.5 score.
SCSU gained touch out wins in the both the men's and women's 200-Butterfly events and grabbed uncontested wins in the one and three-meter springboards.
WOMEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
- Sophomores Adrienne Bilello, Kate DiRaimo and Kate Flynn all had two wins.
- Bilello touched first in both the 1000 and 500-yard Freestyle events with respective times of 10:49.92 and 5:21.95.
- DiRaimo took the 100 and 200-Breaststroke events at 1:10.72 and 2:32.83.
- Flynn posted career best times winning the 50 and 100-Free at 24.26 and 53.08.
- Junior Alyssa Chain took first in the 100-Butterfly at 59.56
- Seniors Maria DiBella and Jessica Schmidt won the 200-Backstroke at 2:10.43 and 200-Individual Medley at 2:15.66, respectively.
- Sophomore Willow Lopez-Silvers won the 200-Free with a career best of 1:56.89
- Freshmen Veronica Sowinski provided gold in the 100-Backstroke at 1:01.49 in her first collegiate event
MEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
- Junior Matt Anderson, who posted three wins on the day, won the 500 and 1000-Free at 4:48.06 and 9:57.44, respectively. He also tied for first in the 100-Free at 48.58 with SCSU swimmer Bryce Murad.
- Sophomore Conor Mullin took both the 50-Free and 100-Butterfly at 21.78 and 50.50.
- Freshmen Jackson Madonia captured both the 100 and 200-Breaststroke at 59.29 and 2:11.06.
- Senior Matthew Bosse won the 2200-Individual Medley at 2:02.97.
- Sophomores Gabriel Finch and Spencer Moran posted wins in the 100-Backststroke at 53.69 and in the 200-Backstroke at 1:54.76.
- Freshmen Daniel Hadary closed out his first collegiate event winning the 200-Freestyle with a 1:44.70 clocking.
COACH'S THOUGHTS
"Both myself and Assistant Coach
Bryan Dorsey are very pleased with today's efforts. We raced aggressively in every event and posted some very solid times in every event. With 19 freshmen on the roster, there was a bit of an unknown factor going into the first meet but, the group really added to the energy and excitement today and the results were positive up and down the line."
UP NEXT
The team returns to action next Saturday, Oct. 13 in the Hynes Center Pool as they face Patriot League member, the College of the Holy Cross at 1 p.m.
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