Florida Atlantic University's men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed against Indian River State College on Friday evening. The Owls' claimed eight victories in the meet with strong performances from Agnes Bucz, Abbey King, Michael Rahrig, and Paulina Boeger.

Bucz hit the pad in the 200 yard free, 100 yard free and 200 yard IM recording two first place finishes out of the three events. She recorded a final time of 1:53.88 in the 200 free and 53:36 in the 100 free, both first place finishes. Bucz also recorded a second place finish in the 200 yard IM with a final time of 2:09.93.

King recorded wins in the both of her events she competed in while recording season best times in both. Bringing home the victories in the 1000 yard freestyle and the 500 yard freestyle finishing in 10:23.20 and 5:06.64, respectively. Teammate and freshman Paulina Boeger contributed to the victory for the Owls today. Boeger competed in the 200 medley, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke, and 200 IM. Bringing home victories in 200 back (2:07.99), and a third place finish in the 100 back (59.32).  READ MORE

Christian Shaner and John Kelly had three podium finishes apiece, leading the VMI men's swimming and diving team to a split of a tri-meet held Saturday at Loyola in Baltimore, Md. The Keydets (2-4) defeated Howard 158-68, but lost to the host Loyola squad 164-75.

Shaner had one of two Keydet victories of the day, winning the 100 fly in 53.49 seconds. He also finished third in the 200 (1:49.09) and led off the runner-up 200 free relay squad that included Kelly, Christian Purdy and John Lancaster. That unit clocked in at 1:28.77. Kelly, meanwhile, was victorious in the 50 free (21.70) and was just outtouched at the wall in the 100, finishing second in 47.72.

Purdy was second in the 50 free (22.52) and Matt Johnson placed second in the 1000, timing in at 10:24.07. Finally, Bret Tomajczyk was third in the 100 breast with a time of 1:05.11.  READ MORE