In their ACC season-opener, the NC State Wolfpack men and women took down both Florida State and Georgia Tech in a double dual at the Georgia Tech Aquatic Center. NC State’s wins in 18 total events helped propel them to an overall win, as well as to a number of NCAA B cuts. The Wolfpack women took the Seminoles 164 to 131, and beat Georgia Tech 186 to 106. On the men’s side, NC State took down Florida State 173 to 115, and Georgia Tech 161 to 122.
NC State Sophomore Rachel Muller got her first event win in the 1000 Free (10:10.05), with Junior teammate Kristin Connors following behind for second (10:15.98) to complete a 1-2 Wolfpack sweep. The NC State men followed up with a 1-2-3 sweep in the event, led by Denmark native and Freshman Anton Ipsen (9:07.47). Sophomore Adam Linker (9:18.28) and Junior Austin Snyder (9:20.78) took second and third.
Wolfpack Junior Simonas Bilis swept the shorter freestyle events this meet, as he did in the last meet. He started with the 200 Free (1:36.22), and claimed an NCAA B cut in the process ahead of Georgia Tech Senior Andrew Kosic (1:38.18). That’s an even faster time from Bilis than he put up in the Wolfpack’s big win over Georgia last week. For the women, Florida State’ s Sami Pochowski (1:50.01) touched ahead of NC State’s Muller (1:50.71).
NC State Junior Ashlyn Koletic led the 1-2 Wolfpack charge in the 100 Back (55.49), with Sophomore Alexia Zevnik pulling in second place (55.78). Sophomore teammate Andreas Schiellerup touched first in the men’s 100 Back in an NCAA B Cut time (48.33) ahead of Georgia Tech Freshman Brian Woodbury (50.32).
Wolfpack Sophomore Kayla Brumbaum won both the 100 Breast (1:02.55) and 200 Breast (2:17.32). Georgia Tech Junior Darelle Cowley finished second in both events, swimming a 1:06.01 and a 2:18.91 respectively.
“Kayla Brumbaum was really good for us today in the breaststroke events,” said NC State Head Coach Braden Holloway. “She had a big win for us in the 100 and she is becoming more reliable for us in those events.”
NC State Junior Derek Hren touched first in the 100 Breast for the men in an NCAA B cut (55.08), and took second in the 200 Breast (2:03.06) behind Florida State’s Jason Coombs (2:02.86).
Seminole Sophomore Chelsea Britt claimed wins in both the 200 Fly (2:01.40) and 100 Fly (54.42), the latter of which was an NCAA B Cut. NC State Junior Christian McCurdy took first in the 200 Fly for the men with another NCAA B Cut (1:47.01) ahead of Georgia Tech Sophomore Ben Southern (1:48.06). Wolfpack Sophomore Soeren Dahl touched first in the 100 Fly for the men in an NCAA B Cut (48.01).
NC State Junior Riki Bonnema out-touched Florida State’s Kaitlyn Dressel by five one-hundreths of a second in the 50 Free for the win (22.68). The top three times in the event were quick enough of a B Cut. Bilis took home his second win for the Wolfpack in the 50 Free with a 20.00, an NCAA B Cut that was just one one-hundredth of a second ahead of Georgia Tech Senior Andrew Kosic (20.01).
Seminole Senior Dressel fought back for a win in the 100 Free (50.21) ahead of NC State Sophomore Lotta Nevalainen (50.47) and teammate Natalie Labonge (50.51).
Simonas continued the sprint domination in the 100 Free with a first-place finish (44.35) less than ten one-hundredths of a second ahead of Georgia Tech Senior Kosic (44.44), the runner up in the 50 Free as well.
Wolfpack Sophomore Alexia Zevnik touched first in the 200 Back (1:59.32), ahead of Georgia Tech Freshman Alex Rieger (2:02.30). NC State teammates Stephen Coetzer (1:48.53) and Jacob Siar (1:49.83) completed a 1-2 sweep in the 200 Back for the men.
NC State’s Muller won her second event of the meet in the 500 Free (4:55.70), ahead of teammates Connors (5:00.75) and Sophomore Kendall Pena (5:04.26). For the men, Wolfpack Freshman Ipsen completed his second win of the night (4:25.36) ahead of Georgia Tech Junior Yuval Safra (4:31.66).
Florida State’s Britt won her third event of the meet in the 20o IM (2:06.09), ahead of Georgia Tech’s Chiara Ruiu (2:07.10). In the men’s event, Coombs won his second event for the Seminoles as well, finishing in 1:50.43.
Read the full meet results here.
My original comment that said “it looks like wolfpack rested again” was oozing with so much sarcasm that I didn’t think I had to note it was sarcasm.
The ONLY rest that is needed in October is all the haters who are jelly of the Wolfpack swimming fast need to rest their trolling typing fingers . As Tswizzle would say, haters gonna hate hate hate.
Give all the rest talk…. A REST!
Well, if the Pack swim fast at duel meets and then swim fast at championships (both ACC and NCAA), then your “theory” should be that they are just fast and kicking butt. They are obviously doing something right:) Great job, Pack!
They work their butts off in and out of the pool. You can speculate about them resting, but they work super hard and show up ready to swim every day and work hard in the weight room as well. I give credit where credit is due, and Coach Holloway has done an unbelievable job as a coach.
maybe its because they DONT REST AT ALL. Don’t believe me, go watch them practice
I agree. I think NCS rests every week for every dual meet. They even rest for practices to put up fast times for get-out swims. Just not sure how they swim so fast at conference and nationals. I’m still working on that theory.
I’ve been looking for this formula for my age group swimmers for awhile, but no luck! Maybe one day! Kudos to the NC State coaches who seem to have mastered TOCTOBER (taper october) training cycle……
Joke aside, 2:55 in 400 Free Relay in October is FAST!! DeSorbo is building a sprint dynasty at NC State. Good to see a different team (other than the usual Auburn, Cal, Texas, USC, or Michigan) shines in sprint events!
RADIOFLYER I think NC state is still trying to figure out how to swim fast at nationals and conference as well. Their duel meet times are the fastest in the country, yet they didn’t even win their own conference? And what place were they at NCAA’s? Because it wasn’t close to the top 5…
Kudos to them for swimming well in season, but it certainly comes with its price come time championship season.
They swam out of their minds at ACC and NCAA…two things about not winning conference or ranking higher at NCAA:
Diving
DQ’s
You are comparing their current times to last year’s championship results…. They were not even expected to be fighting for the 2014 ACC team title based on their “in season times”. Prior to 2014 ACC Championship, it was all about VT, UNC, & UVA… then they blew up…
Let’s compare Bilis times:
2013-2014 “In season”: 19.9, 43.9, 1:38.9
2013-2014 ACC: 19.1, 42.1, 1:34.1
2014-2015 so far: 19.9, 43.7, 1:36
They are swimming faster than last year already which is very scary…
I don’t think the HC name at ncsu is Brandon, it is Braden.
It looks as if the Wolfpack rested again….