Tar Heel Swimmers & Divers Nab Dual Meet Wins

Saturday, January 14

Annapolis, Md.

11:00 AM

North Carolina

Navy

January 14, 2017 | Swimming & Diving

By: UNC Athletic Communications

ANNAPOLIS, MD. - Back from their holiday training trips, the University of North Carolina men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened action in the spring semester portion of their schedule with dual meets win at Navy on Saturday afternoon.

The Carolina men defeated the Midshipmen 170-130, while the Tar Heel women emerged with a 179-119 triumph. Both teams go to 1-3 on the season in dual meet action heading into next Saturday's dual meet at Koury Natatorium versus Virginia (12 noon start). It will be UNC's first home meet since early October when it faced Georgia on October 7.

“The upcoming week will be an extremely important one for our swimmers and divers. We need to sharpen things up, race each other in practice and get ready for our upcoming, exciting meets,” said head coach Rich DeSelm as UNC faces Virginia, NC State and Duke in the next 14 days.

The Tar Heel men were led to victory by a pair of multiple event individual winners – Henry Campbell in distance events and the 200 IM and Jorden Merrilees in the 200 free and 200 back. Altogether, the Tar Heels won 11 events on the men's side, including both diving events. The Carolina women also won 11 events with senior Macey Arnold sweeping the distance events and junior Elissa Dawson winning both diving events. The Tar Heel women won both relays, and five other Tar Heel women captured one event each.

“It was great to finally have our swimmers and divers compete again, having not competed since December,” said DeSelm. “We always enjoy competing against Navy, watching them honor their seniors, knowing their well-coached teams will fight us to the wall every time.”

DeSelm had particular praise for the UNC diving contingent.

“The divers had a terrific day, winning both boards for both the men and women and, especially for the men, having a lot of depth. As has been the case many times, divers Elissa Dawson and Jack Nyquist continue to lead our team, win events and build their readiness for ACCs and NCAAs,” said DeSelm. “Behind them, we have a terrific group working hard and developing. The divers' training trip over the break was extremely productive.

“On the swimming side, we had some strong racing, but the times are not where we need to be and we will need to be, much sharper next weekend and from now on,” said DeSelm. “We won enough events and had enough depth to come out victorious, but are a bit rusty and tired from training hard and from some travel.

“In today's meet, for the women, Macey Arnold won the two distance events while regular team leaders such as Hellen Moffitt, Caroline Baldwin, Sarah Hitchens, Caty Hulsey, Sarah Koucheki and Emily Slabe played a prominent role over the course of the day. It was also great to see a freshman get her hand on the wall first – Susanna LaRochelle in the 200 Back. Our men were challenged the entire day and, fortunately, several of our men stepped up to carry the team. Henry Campbell scored victories using some great race strategy in the 1000 Free, 500 Free and 200 IM. Jorden Merrilees pulled out some terrific finishes on his way to winning the 200 Free and 200 Back and anchoring our winning 400 Free Relay. Senior Lucas Popp had a nice day in his swims in the 50, 100 and 200 Freestyles. Freshman Collier Cobb won the 200 Butterfly with a great back half.”

MEN'S TEAM SCORE

North Carolina 170, Navy 130

WOMEN'S TEAM SCORE

North Carolina 179, Navy 119

TOP CAROLINA FINISHERS IN EACH EVENT--MEN

200-Yard Medley Relay – UNC, 3^rd Place, 1:32.26 (Patrick Cusick, Michael McBryan, Christian Caveness, Graham Weaver)
1000-Yd. Freestyle – Henry Campbell, UNC, 1^st Place, 9:23.34
200-Yd. Freestyle – Jorden Merrilees, UNC 1^st Place, 1:38.14
100-Yd. Backstroke – Patrick Cusick, UNC, 1^st Place, 50.01
100-Yd. Breaststroke – Craig Emslie, UNC, 2^nd Place, 55.12
200-Yd. Butterfly – Collier Cobb, UNC, 1^st Place, 1:51.32
50-Yd. Freestyle – Lucas Popp, UNC, 1^st Place, 20.85
Three-Meter Diving – Jack Nyquist, UNC, 1^st Place, 423.53
100-Yd. Freestyle – Philip Perdue, UNC, 3^rd Place, 45.93
200-Yd. Backstroke – Jorden Merrilees, UNC, 1^st Place, 1:49.34
200-Yd. Breaststroke – Michael McBryan, UNC, 2^nd Place, 2:00.56
500-Yd. Freestyle – Henry Campbell, UNC, 1^st Place, 4:30.33
100-Yd. Butterfly – Greg Brocato, UNC, 3^rd Place, 50.05
One-Meter Diving – Sean Burston, UNC, 1^st Place, 380.25
200-Yd. Individual Medley – Henry Campbell, UNC, 1^st Place, 1:51.20
400-Yd. Freestyle Relay – UNC, 1^st Place, 3:00.37 (J.T. Casey, Craig Emslie, Philip Perdue, Jorden Merrilees)

TOP CAROLINA FINISHERS IN EACH EVENT—WOMEN

200-Yard Medley Relay – UNC, 1^st Place, 1:42.29 (Caroline Baldwin, Emily Pfeiffer, Hellen Moffitt, Sarah Hitchens)
1000-Yd. Freestyle – Macey Arnold, UNC, 1^st Place, 10:10.07
200-Yd. Freestyle – Kylie Mihok, UNC, 2^nd Place, 1:51.97
100-Yd. Backstroke – Sarah Hitchens, UNC, 1^st Place, 56.08
100-Yd. Breaststroke – Emily Pfeiffer, UNC, 3^rd Place, 1:05.74
200-Yd. Butterfly – Madison Boswell, UNC, 2^nd Place, 2:04.27
50-Yd. Freestyle – Hellen Moffitt, UNC, 1^st Place, 23.57
One-Meter Diving – Elissa Dawson, UNC, 1^st Place, 310.50
100-Yd. Freestyle – Caroline Baldwin, UNC, 1^st Place, 50.40
200-Yd. Backstroke – Susanna LaRochelle, UNC, 1^st Place, 2:02.81
200-Yd. Breaststrioke – Abby Fisher, UNC, 2^nd Place, 2:17.28
500-Yd. Freestyle – Macey Arnold, UNC, 1^st Place, 4:59.30
100-Yd. Butterfly – Caty Hulsey, UNC, 1^st Place, 56.78
Three-Meter Diving – Elissa Dawson, UNC, 1^st Place, 378.60
200-Yd. Individual Medley – Hellen Moffitt, UNC, 2^nd Place, 2:02.78
400-Yd. Freestyle Relay – UNC, 1^st Place, 3:26.45 (Caroline Baldwin, Hellen Moffitt, Brooke Bauer, Sarah Hitchens)