October 10, 2009
UB Swimming and Diving Hosts WNY Invite
BUFFALO, NY – The University at
Buffalo men's and women's swimming and diving team
started their season by hosting the Western New York Invite this
afternoon at UB's Alumni Arena Natatorium. There was no team
scoring, but Binghamton, Canisius, Niagara and St. Bonaventure all
competed in the event.
The women won twelve out of fifteen events with
Brynn
Mareckileading the way, winning three events for Buffalo.
Marecki won the 200 IM (2:11.71), 100 breaststroke (1:07.03) and
200 breaststroke (2:24.15).
Jordan
Deren and
Caitlin
Reilly each won a pair of events, with Deren taking first
in the 500 freestyle (5:08.47) and 1000 freestyle (10:34.95) and
Reilly winning the 200 backstroke (2:10.36) and 100 backstroke
(1:00.18).
In the afternoon, freshman Caroline
Simmons opened the session with an impressive first-place
finish in the 100 freestyle (52.16) and Kim
Dale closed out the day with a win in the 400 IM
(4:40.52). Along with Simmons, the women's team debuted seven
freshmen. Dani
Adank, Logan
Mason, Emma
Miller , Karly
Moore, Katelyn
Pratt-Collins and Alex
Swies all had their first meet as a UB Bull.
On the men's side,
Zach
Ruske picked up a win in the 200 backstroke (1:54.36),
while freshman
Josh
Meints won the 100 breaststroke (1:01.50). Meints was
followed close behind by fellow freshman
Christian
Muller, who took second place in the 100 breaststroke,
finishing with a time of 1:01.86.
Simon
Proudfoot added a first-place finish, swimming to a time
of 47.63 in the 100 freestyle. In addition to Meints and Muller,
the Bulls debuted seven other newcomers, including
Paul
Garman,
Matt
Hogan,
Zach
Rice,
Matt
Schwippert,
Ryan
Smrekar,
Curtis
Williams and
Cory
Zorsch.
The Bulls will have their first dual meet of the season on
Friday, October 23 when they host Duquesne. The meet is set for
4:00 pm at Alumni Arena Natatorium.