2024 CAA CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Wednesday, February 28 – Saturday, March 2, 2024
- Hampton Aquaplex, Hampton, VA
- Defending Champions:
- Girls: UNCW (1x)
- Males: UNCW (2x)
- Groups: Campbell (W), Delaware, Drexel, Monmouth, Northeastern (W), Stony Brook (W), Towson, UNCW, William & Mary
- Championship Central
- Psych Sheets
- Dwell Outcomes
The 2024 CAA Championships closed out this weekend, and for the second yr in a row, the UNCW Seahawks gained each the lads’s and the ladies’s staff championships. Each Seahawks groups held leads heading into closing day, and whereas the lads cruised to their third-straight title, the ladies’s race virtually got here all the way down to the ultimate relay.
Girls’s Recap
Brooke Knisely bought the Seahawks going early with a 16:30.29 win within the 1650, as UNCW claimed three of the highest 4 spots within the occasion.
That may be UNCW’s solely win of the day, however they continued to pile on the factors with a ton depth. The decisive occasion was arguably the 200 breast, the place UNCW put 4 ladies into the A-final and constructed up a 200+ level lead that Delaware, the last word runner-ups, would by no means be capable to overcome.
The Blue Hens did their finest, although, as they gained the ultimate three swimming occasions of the meet. Within the 200 breast, Mania Tasakou was trailing by 0.08s on the midway level, however opened up a lead over 100 breast champ Ellie Scherer of W&M with a 33.55 third leg, and held on to win in 2:12.43. Subsequent, Victoria Novinskiy led from starting to finish within the 200 fly, profitable with a 1:59.11 as the one lady get underneath two minutes within the occasion.
Northeastern’s Kiki Murphy gained the 1m diving occasion with a rating of 285.30, however Delaware’s 4 championship finalists helped Delaware bridge the hole between them and UNCW. Nonetheless, the Blue Hens nonetheless ended the diving competitors 65 factors behind the Seahawks, and with the ultimate relay value 64 factors, even a Delaware victory and a Seahawk DQ would’ve given UNCW the win by a single level.
However although it couldn’t have an effect on the end result on the high of the staff standings, the 400 free nonetheless became an extremely shut and aggressive race.
Drexel’s Chelsea Gravereaux, who gained the person 100 free with time of 48.52, simply lacking the CAA file, led off the relay with a 49.32 to hit the wall first. UNCW then took the lead after Cameron Snowden cut up 49.66 on the second leg with the quickest non-leadoff cut up within the area.
Delaware took management on the again half, the place a 50.58 from Olivia Willemsen and a 50.08 from Anthi Lyra put the Blue Hens within the lead, and so they gained in 3:21.94. William & Mary bought 4 splits between 50.0 and 50.6 to take 2nd in 3:22.04, adopted by UNCW at 3:22.12, as the highest three groups all touched inside 0.18s of one another.
Last Scores & Awards
- UNCW – 1409
- Delaware – 1354
- William & Mary – 1107
- Northeastern – 1067
- Towson – 1024
- Drexel – 604
- Campbell – 527.5
- Stony Brook – 308
- Monmouth – 290.5
Most Excellent Girls’s Swimmer of the Meet: Chelsea Gravereaux, Drexel
Most Excellent Girls’s Diver of the Meet: Kiki Murphy, Northeastern
CAA Girls’s Swimming Coach of the Yr: Bobby Guntoro, UNCW
CAA Girls’s Diving Coach of the Yr: Lauren Colby, Northeastern
Males’s Recap
It was a reasonably comparable story on the lads’s facet, the place the Seahawks solely gained two occasions on the ultimate day, however had sufficient scorers that the last word final result was by no means actually unsure.
Similar to the ladies, the Seahawks began robust early by profitable the 1650. Silas Crosby gained with a 7.49s margin of victory over teammate Logan Adler, 15:23.43 to fifteen:30.82.
UNCW solely bought another win on the evening, and that got here within the closing occasion of the meet, the 400 free relay.
Mac Russell led off in 43.83, Jacob Duracinsky had the quickest cut up of the evening with a 42.73 second leg, Robert Tars cut up 43.68, and Kenneth Lowe anchored in 43.41 because the Seahawks stopped the clock in 2:53.65. The dwell outcomes point out that UNCW broke the meet file with that point, however that appears to be inaccurate, as Delaware gained final yr in 2:52.73.
UNCW dominated the CAA for over a decade, profitable the lads’s title yearly from 2002 to 2014 underneath head coach Dave Allen. After Allen’s retirement, William & Mary ripped off six-straight titles earlier than the staff was to be reduce after which reinstated in the course of the 2020-2021 season. Alumnus Bobby Guntoro took over UNCW in 2020, and now the Seahawk males have gained three straight championship (with Towson profitable in 2021 underneath Jake Schrum, now at UVA).
In between the Seahawk wins, Delaware and Drexel every earned two victories. Delaware went 1-2 within the 200 again, the place Kaloy Levterov gained in 1:41.90 and broke the CAA file of 1:42.33, set by teammate Gavin Currie final yr. Currie was swimming proper subsequent to Levterov and practically matched his time from final yr, swimming a 1:42.39 for 2nd. Teammate Toni Sabev gained the 100 breast in 1:55.92.
Drexel’s Sebastian Smith gained his second particular person title of the meet with a 43.08 win within the 100 free. Smith had gained the 50 free earlier within the week. Teammate Kuba Kwasny accomplished the butterfly sweep with 1:43.77 win within the 200 fly.
Last Scores & Awards
- UCNW – 845.5
- Delaware – 721
- Towson – 490
- Drexel – 448
- William & Mary – 362.5
- Monmouth – 197
Most Excellent Males’s Swimmer of the Meet: Brian Benzing, Towson
Most Excellent Males’s Diver of the Meet: Ethan Badrian, UNCW
CAA Males’s Swimming Coach of the Yr: Bobby Guntoro, UNCW
CAA Males’s Diving Coach of the Yr: Gavrilo Blijden, UNCW