The Georgia Tech swimming and diving team spilt the day with Pitt, with the No. 17 ranked Georgia Tech men’s team getting a 173-127 win over the Panthers, while the women dropped a close matchup, falling 161-139 to the home squad.
The Georgia Tech men’s team is 3-0 in dual meets on the season.
Action started Friday with the 1-meter diving event, where Yellow Jackets took second in both genders. Senior Anna Bradescu totaled a 282.83, while sophomore Max Fowler scored a 373.23. Saturday’s action started with the 3-meter event, where Bradescu and Fowler both took first, with Bradescu scoring a 306.15 and Fowler totaling a 411.60.
In the swimming events, Tech’s first win of the day was the men’s 200 medley relay (Berke Saka, Joao Caballero, Leandro Odorici, David Gapinski, 1:25.41). The Yellow Jackets and the Panthers then battled back-and-forth all day, exchanging race wins, before the Tech men were able to close out and get their third win of the season.
In the meet, Georgia Tech swept the podium in three events: men’s 1000 free, women’s 100 breast and men’s 200 fly. In addition, Mert Kilavuz, Sophie Murphy, Berke Saka and Sabyne Brisson won multiple events, with Kilavuz taking home the 1000 free (8:57.97, Pitt pool record) and 500 free (4:25.25), Murphy winning the 200 free (1:46.25) and 100 free (49.58), Saka taking first in the 100 back (46.34) and 200 back (1:41.28) and Brisson sweeping the breaststroke events, winning the 100 (1:00.37) and 200 (2:11.47).
Other event wins for Georgia Tech included: Zora Ripkova in the 200 fly (1:58.00), Antonio Romero in the 200 fly (1:47.07), Stephen Jones taking the 100 fly (47.23) and Kendal Chunn winning the 400 IM (4:15.61).
Georgia Tech closed the day with a win in the men’s 400 free relay, with the team of Odorici, Saka, Robin Yeboah and Gapinski finishing with a time of 2:53.19.
Pitt won the women’s 200 medley relay with Claire Jansen, Cecilia Viberg, Sophie Yendell and Avery Kudlac finishing in 1:37.28.
Jansen won the 100 back (52.96) and 200 back (1:55.88). Yendell won the 50 free (22.28) and 100 fly (52.41). Emily Bucaro won the 1000 free (10:03.36). Kimmy Shannon won the 500 free (4:50.18).
Kudlac, Jansen, Yendell and Sydney Gring won the 400 free relay in 3:16.76.
Pitt’s Max Matteazzi won the men’s 200 free in 1:35.39, the 400 IM in 3:43.63 and 200 breast (1:54.45). Eli Hobson won the 100 breast (53.72). Donat Fabian won the 50 free in 20.01. Julian Koch won the 100 free (42.93).
