NC State Picks Up Six Wins on Day Two of Fall Invite

Friday, November 18

Greensboro, N.C.

9:30 AM Prelims, 5:30 PM Finals

NC State

NC State/GAC Invitational (Day 2)

Photo by: Jaylynn Nash

NC State Picks Up Six Wins on Day Two of Fall Invite

11/19/2022 6:27:00 AM | Swimming

GREENSBORO, N.C. — NC State finished day two of its midseason invitational with six wins during the Friday finals session. The Wolfpack women lead the meet in scoring with 1489.5 points, while the Pack men remain in second place behind No. 5 Arizona State heading into the final day of competition.

HIGHLIGHTS:

200-yard medley relay
In the first event of the night, Katharine Berkoff, Heather Maccausland, Kylee Alons, and Abby Arens combined efforts to gain automatic NCAA qualification in the event. Their time of 1:34.37 was over a second ahead of the second place finishing team and put them almost two full seconds faster than the NCAA A cut standard.

On the men's side, Aiden Hayes (20.86), Mason Hunter (23.56), Nyls Korstanje (20.32), and David Curtiss (18.60) finished in second place, with their time of 1:23.34 putting them faster than the team's meet record set last year. Though finishing in second place, the squad was still able to obtain automatic NCAA qualification in the event.

400-yard IM
Sophomore Grace Sheble led the charge for the Wolfpack at the start of the session by going 4:06.73 in the 400-yard IM, a swim that dropped over twelve seconds from her entry time. The win marked the first collegiate win of her career. Yara Hierath (4:15.41) and Caroline Sheble (4:17.51) also posted swims earning them consideration standards for the NCAA Championship meet.

100-yard butterfly
NC State junior Luke Miller knocked off almost a second from his morning swim to win the event (44.99) by two one-hundredths of a second and give him automatic NCAA qualification in the event.

200-yard freestyle
Bartosz Piszczorowicz (1:33.75) and Michael Cotter (1:34.45) were the Wolfpack's top finishers in the event with their fifth and sixth places, respectively. Both men dropped over two seconds from their entry time.

100-yard breaststroke
The Wolfpack women had a strong showing in the event with the team earning four of the top seven finishes. Heather Maccausland led the way by knocking a full second off of her personal best time to take the win in 58.16 seconds. The race moves Maccausland up to No. 3 all-time in program history.

Andrea Podmanikova completed the 1-2 punch for the Pack by finishing right behind Maccausland in second place (58.56). Aubree Brouwer (1:00.42) and Kaylee Hamblin (1:01.41) finished fifth and seventh with NCAA provisional standards.

On the men's side, Mason Hunter claimed his first win with the Wolfpack. The 52.57 second performance puts him fourth in program history.

100-yard backstroke
The Wolfpack women scored many points in the 100-yard backstroke with Berkoff (51.21), Alons (51.83), Noble (52.40), and Muzzy (52.47) going an impressive 2-3-4-5 in the event. All four ladies secured NCAA B cuts in the event.

Just a few heats later, Aiden Hayes, Giovanni Izzo, and Hunter Tapp made up three of the top six spots in the event. Hayes finished in third place going 56.06, with Izzo in 5th (46.71) and Tapp going 47.20 for sixth.

800-yard freestyle relay
The quartet of Abbey Webb, Annabel Crush, Katherine Helms, and Katharine Berkoff finished third in the event with their finishing time of 7:05.83 putting them just .05 faster than the NCAA B cut.

The Pack men finished out the night with an automatic NCAA qualification in the 800-yard freestyle relay (6:15.80). Luke Miller led off (1:32.15), Michael Cotter went second (1:34.52), Bartosz Piszczorowicz swam the third leg (1:34.86), and Noah Bowers brought the group home with a 1:34.27 anchor split.

DIVING HIGHLIGHTS:
On the women's one-meter board, Helene Synnott claimed the second place spot with her 290.45 points. For the men, freshman Renato Calderaro brought home yet another win for the Wolfpack. His 360.60 points put him a full 20 points ahead of the second-place finisher.

UP NEXT:
The Pack will wrap up the midseason prelims/finals meet with one more day of competition on Saturday. Prelims begin at 9:30 a.m. at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. The slower heats of the 1,650-yard freestyle will start mid-afternoon, with the remainder of the finals slated to begin at 5:30 p.m.

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