The Duke swimming and diving team opened the 2020-21 season against Virginia Tech Saturday afternoon at Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion.
- Women: Duke 150, Virginia Tech 150
- Men: Virginia Tech 171.5, Duke. 120.5
- Results
“This was our first meet since February and it was awesome,” associate head coach Dawn Kane said after the meet. “It takes a little getting used to coming off of a long break and I think they did a great job getting up and racing. We have been practicing for this. We have been training really hard. They really stepped up and raced today.”
On the women’s side, Duke tied the Hokies 150-150. It was the first time in school history that the women have recorded a tie. The men last did so in 1967.
Prior to the swimming competition, the diving teams squared off on the boards. Junior diver Maddi Pullinger started the season strong with a sweep of both diving events. The Sydney, Australia, native posted scores of 323.33 and 324.53 in the one- and three-meter competitions, respectively.
The Duke women started the swimming portion meet off strong, placing first and second in the opening 200 medley relay. Sophomore Emma Shuppert, freshman Sarah Foley, freshman Aleyna Ozkan and junior Shayna Hollander placed first with a time of 1:40.19 while freshman Emily Lenihan, sophomore Kayle Park, graduate student Mia Bullock and sophomore Sarah Snyder touched second in 1:41.44.
Overall, Duke was led by Foley with three individual wins. She swam top-5 times in program history in each of the three events. She won the 100 breaststroke (1:01.38, fourth all-time at Duke), the 200 breaststroke (2:11.95, second all-time) and the 400 individual medley (4:13.87, fifth all-time).
Foley led the Blue Devils to sweep the top three spots of the 100 and 200 breaststroke as she was followed by Park and freshman Catherine Belyakov in second and third, respectively, in both events. Park clocked a 1:02.25 in the 100 and 2:13.80 in the 200 while Belyakov touched in 1:03.30 in the 100 and 2:18.39 in the 200.
Senior Quinn Scannell also sported a win for the Blue Devils as she touched first in the 200 freestyle in 1:50.26. Snyder took second in both of the freestyle sprints, the 50 and 100, with times of 23.39 and 51.53, respectively.
The men were led by junior Cole Reznick and sophomore Brendan Driscoll. Reznick sported wins in the 100 breaststroke (55.115) and the 400 individual medley (3:59.52). In addition, the Pleasanton, Calif., native touched in 2:02.46 in the 200 breaststroke to place third.
After missing the spring portion last season due to injury Driscoll placed first and second in the two distance freestyle events. He touched first in the 1,000 freestyle in 9:20.89 before placing second in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:34.95.
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