Virginia Tech Wrecks Queens Record Board with Charlotte Sweep
Virginia Tech left 19 new records on the boards Friday night after a meet at Queens University, the Hokies toting home a pair of victories.
The women won 157-100, with the men prevailing 178-79. The men led the way with 10 of the 19 pool marks.
The most intriguing was the back-and-forth in the women’s 50 freestyle. Ryley Heck secured a consolation prize for the Royals by fending off the field in the individual event, her time of 22.77 downing the school record that had stood since 2013 in the hands of Auburn swimmer Allyx Purcell (22.90). That time survived a charge by Va Tech’s Carmen Weiler Sastre off the front of the 200 free relay, the Spanish international evening the mark at 22.77.
Weiler Sastre started the meet by leading off the Hokies’ winning 200 medley relay in a pool record 1:38.94, teaming with Emily Santos, Athena Meneses Kovacs and Emily Claesson. Weiler Sastre downed pool marks in winning the 200 free in 1:46.30 and the 100 free in 49.13.
Another decade-old record fell in the women’s 100 breaststroke, with Santos going 1:01.79. That chips a hundredth of a second off the record set in 2013 by Olympic medalist Katie Meili.
The most impressive swim came on the men’s side, with Carles Coll Marti ripping an NCAA A cut in the 200 breast to win in 1:50.53. That is 6.5 seconds quicker than his pool record from 2023. Coll Marti also set the pool record in the 100 breast (51.46), was the fastest performer in the 200 individual medley in 1:42.70 and teamed with Youssef Ramadan, William Hayon and Brendan Whitfield for a pool record in the 200 medley relay.
On the women’s side, Delaney Bookstein started the record onslaught with a time of 16:37.57. Emma Atkinson went 53.40 for the facility record in the 100 backstroke, then 1:56.28 to claim it in the 200 back, outdueling Meneses Kovacs. Santos won the 200 breast, Kate Anderson set a pool record in winning the 500 free and Claesson went 53.88 for the 100 fly mark.
Va Tech didn’t have it all its way on the women’s side. Heck’s win in the 50 followed up on Abigail Zboran’s win in the 200 fly. Zboran was the 500 free runner-up. Tova Andersson’s 2:03.22 was the top time of three 2:03s in the 200 IM. Madeline Foster was second in the 100 free and 200 free.
The men’s records were defined by the margins by which the Hokies dashed them. The 200 medley relay’s time of 1:24.18 was nearly 3.8 seconds quicker than Virginia Tech was in 2023, with Ramadan the only holdover (and he swam fly on the previous record). Ramadan went 41.95 in the 100 free, 1.4 seconds quicker than the record., and 1.75 seconds quicker than Marius Kusch’s 100 fly mark with his winning result of 45.20. Mario Molla Yanes clubbed 2.5 seconds off the mark in the 200 back in 1:43.53. Ramadan went 19.40 off the front of the 200 free relay for the pool record in the 50 free.
Molla Yanes also won the 100 back. Luis Dominguez Calonge won the 200 free and the 500 free, the former a record. Second in the 500 was Lee Naber, whose 15:13.23 set the 1,650 mark. Brendan Whitfield won the 50 in 19.59 and was second in the 100.
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