Swimming & Diving Sweep Dual Meet At UNCW

Friday, October 20

Wilmington, NC

4 p.m.

North Carolina

UNCW

Olivia Nel
University of North Carolina Swimming and Diving ACC Championship
Dean E. Smith Center
Greensboro, NC
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Photo by: Jerome M. Ibrahim

October 20, 2023 | Swimming & Diving

Complete Results (PDF)

By: UNC Athletics Communications

WILMINGTON, N.C. – The UNC swimming and diving teams swept a dual meet from UNCW at Allen Natatorium Friday. The No. 16 Carolina women posted a 215-80 victory, while Tar Heel men recorded a 197-96 win as each team improved to 2-0 in dual meet competition.

The Tar Heels won all 32 events and set six pool records as the ladies claimed the top three spots in 11 of 16 events, and the men took each podium spot in the 100 and 200 fly,1000 free, and 200 IM.

"Tonight was an entire team effort where everyone stepped up," head coach Mark Gangloff said. "I'm so proud of how our team entered this meet and took control. It was particularly exciting because a handful of athletes took home their first college dual meet victory. I look forward to continuing this momentum as we approach our meet versus South Carolina."

After helping the UNC women's 200 medley B relay team edge the Tar Heels' A squad by less than a second, Katja Pavicevic swept the breaststroke events. She finished 0.25 seconds in front of freshman teammate Samantha Armand in the 200-yard breaststroke, posting a time of 1:02.04. She later touched the wall 0.47 seconds before Armand in the 100-yard breaststroke with a mark of 54.06.

Juniors Olivia Nel and Greer Pattison also won a pair of events on the ladies side. Nel swept the sprint freestyle events, winning the 100-yard freestyle by 0.30 ahead of teammate Michaela Chokureva with a pool record time of 50.09 before edging Brie Romney by 0.15 in the 50-yard freestyle in 22.85.

Pattison posted a winning time of 54.60 in the 100-yard butterfly and 54.25 in the 100-yard backstroke.

Emma Karam shattered the pool record in the 200-yard backstroke by 2.58 with a time of 1:56.66, winning the event by four seconds over freshman teammate Mary Macaulay.

Macauley earned her first win as a Tar Heel in the 200 IM with a time of 2:03.36, as did freshman Ava Muzzy in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:56. Lily Reader (1000 free), Michelle Morgan (200 free) and Ellie VanNote (200 fly) also earned victories.

Van Note set the pool record in the women's 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:58.89, while Sebastian Lunak duplicated the feat on the men's side with a mark of 1:47.71.

Freshman Ben Delmar, Louis Dramm, and Matthew Van Deusen were each multi-event winners on the men's side.

Delmar swept the breaststroke events for the second consecutive dual meet, winning the 100-yard breaststroke by 0.70 with a time of 55.27 and setting the pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:57.33.

Dramm was triumphant in the 100 and 200-yard freestyle, narrowly winning the 100 by 0.21 with a time of 45.39 before winning the 200 by nearly two seconds with a mark of 1:38.01. He also swam the anchor leg for the victorious 200-yard freestyle relay squad.

Van Deusen touched 0.01 ahead of Delmar to win the 200-yard IM in 1:51.16 after distancing the field by 0.65 in the 200-yard backstroke.

Walker Davis (100 back), Tiesyn Harris (50 free), Patrick Hussey (500 free), Boyd Poelke (100 fly), and Keith Williams (1000 free) were single-event winners.

Reigning NCAA women's diving champion Aranza Vazquez Montano was victorious in her first competitions of the season, sweeping the one and three-meter springboard events. UNC senior Alex Hart won the men's three-meter competition, and freshman Rodolfo Vazquez Montano claimed victory in the one-meter event.

The Tar Heels return to competition on Nov. 3 against South Carolina in Columbia, S.C.