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Spiders Win Dual Meet With George Mason Friday
10/17/2015 | Women's Swimming & Diving
Richmond swimming and diving took out George Mason 184-110 to start the 2015-16 season in day one of the Richmond Duals.
By virtue of the win, the Spiders will face off against Duquesne in a dual Saturday. The Dukes defeated Davidson 168-119. In the men's dual, George Mason leads Davidson 118-81. The men's dual will be contested over the two days.
Diving took a starring role early in the day for the Spiders, with junior Irina Chiulli (Westwood, Massachusetts) already posting a Zone Qualifying score in her first day of competition for the year. On the 1m board, she posted a 274.40, just nine points from a personal-best score and putting her in the Zones by nearly 10 points. In 3m action, Chiulli led all divers with a 254.30 score. She posted the highest scores by anyone in the A-10 no both boards to this point of the season. Sophomore Laura Rokop (Wildwood, Missouri) was second in the 1m, with a score of 236.90 and junior Mikaela Gekas-Robinson (Woodbury, New Jersey) took second in the 3m with a persona-best 234.85 score.
“What a great way to start our season,” said UR head diving coach Sean Letsinger. “We took a risk and decided to compete some new dives and it really paid off. The divers demonstrated outstanding competitive maturity, and I am excited to come back tomorrow morning and see if we can improve our dives from today.”
Points were scored up and down the lineup for the Spiders on the swimming side, which took place at SwimRVA. Seniors Kelley Yang (Ellicott City, Maryland) and Melissa Ross (Warrington, Pennsylvania) both posted the fastest time of the day for all four teams in the 100 Fly (55.65) and 200 Fly (2:04.24), respectively.
Sophomore Erin Barry (Millington, New Jersey) posted the fastest time of all four teams in both the 100 (1:05.29) and 200 (2:18.98) Breast.
In her first collegiate meet, freshman Nicole Piercy (Newport News, Virginia / Hampton Roads Academy) was fastest in the mile, at 17:37.92, and was second-fastest for the day, but winning the dual meet with Mason in the 500 Free, with a 5:10.20 time.
Diving, at the Richmond Natatorium, begins at 9:30 a.m. The swimming events begin at 10 a.m. at SwimRVA. The live stream of both diving and swimming is available through the Atlantic 10 Digital Network.
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