Jan. 5, 2008
WASHINGTON - The American University men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed in the Florida International University Invitational Saturday, placing third and fourth, respectively. The men's team totaled 52 points with one third and two fourth-place finishes while the women's team totaled 38 points with one second and one third-place finish.
The University of Iowa won both the men's and women's competitions with 172 total points from the men's team 176 total points from the women's. Oakland (102 pts.) and Lake Forest (22 pts.) rounded out the men's competition while Oakland (98 pts.) and FIU (40 pts.) also competed on the women's side.
The FIU Invitational had an unusual format as the entire meet was comprised of relay events.
The men's team took third in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:31.25. Joe Coronato, Eric Sveum, Brian Galm and Matt Pelletier comprised the third place relay team from AU. Sveum, Pelletier, Coronato and Dan Nagelberg teamed up in the 500 free to take fourth place, finishing in a time of 4:22.43. Pelletier, Frank Carbone, Nagelberg and Jonathan Bateman swam to a fourth-place finish in the 200 free relay with a time of 1:46.50.
The men's team took also fifth in two separate 400 medley relay events. Pelletier, Michael DiDonato, Sveum and Coronato made the up one team which finished in 3:50.26 and DiDonato, Bateman, Carbone and Nagelberg comprised the second which finished in 4:04.24. DiDonato, Bateman, John Winters and Nagelberg swam on the 200 breast relay team which earned a third fifth-place finish for AU in a time of 2:05.84.
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In the women's competition, Dorothy Isaacs, Meghan Thiel, Eleanor Clay and Mary-Margaret Lopez took second place in one 400 medley event with a time of 4:22.90. Julia Anstadt, Clay, Michelle Holleran and Isaacs teamed up in the 200 breast relay to take third place, finishing in a time of 2:13.31.
The AU women also placed fifth in three events. Jessica Balance, Clay, Lopez and Thiel finished the first 400 medley relay event in 4:15.83 for fifth. In the 200 fly relay, Lopez, Holleran, Balance and Melinda Gilbert took fifth in a time of 1:58.69. AU's final fifth-place finish came in the 200 back relay in a time of 2:05.76, swam by Balance, Paige Mellers, Gilbert and Morgan Haycock.
The women's swimming and diving teams will be in competition again on Jan. 18 against both Georgetown and James Madison. The meet will be held at AU's Reeves Aquatic Complex and is scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.
