ODU Swimming Places 10th At WVU Invitational

MORGANTOWN, W.V. – The Old Dominion Men's and Women's Swimming teams wrapped up the three-day West Virginia Invitational on Saturday. The team finished ninth out of 16 teams scoring 786 points. The men's team placed eighth out of 12 teams scoring 491 points and the women's finished tenth out of 16 teams scoring 295 points. Gustaf Hansson broke a school record in the men's 100 backstroke finishing with a time of 48.65. 
 
ODU scored 12 points in the men's 200 freestyle relay as the team of Ben Schattenberg, Hansson, Dawson Truong and Ryan Lincicum placed 12^th with a time of 1:23.83.
 
In the men's 500 freestyle, Grey Bremer scored six points as he took 10^th place with a time of 4:29.93.
 
In the women's 200 IM, Martina Ciriesi scored 13 points after placing 6^th with a time of 2:02.07.
 
Mortimer scored 17 points after placing second in the men's 200 IM with a time of 1:49.27.
 
Mary Dunworth placed 10^th in the women's 50 freestyle with a time of 23.63 which was good enough for seven points. 
 
ODU scored eight points in the women's 400 medley relay. The team of Ally Hilbrich, Dunworth, Ciriesi and Lauren Masters placed 14^th with a time of 3:49.86.
 
In the men's 400 medley relay the ODU team of Schattenberg, Truong, Tristen Wells and Brice Bounds took 13^th and scored 12 points with a time of 3:22.56.
 
ODU scored 10 points in the women's 200 medley relay as the team of Hilbrich, Bridget Morris-Larkin, Ciriesi and Dunworth placed 12^th with a time of 1:44.26.
 
In the men's 200 medley relay the Monarchs scored 12 points after the team of Hansson, Toni Salluka, Jordan Davis and Lincicum placed 11^th with a time of 1:31.01.
 
Ciriesi placed second in the women's 100 butterfly with a time of 54.42 which was good enough for 17 points.
 
Truong scored four points after placing 13^th in the men's 100 butterfly with a time of 49.52.
 
Ciriesi scored four points in the women's 100 breaststroke after placing 13^th with a time of 1:04.06.
 
In the men's 100 breaststroke, Mortimer scored nine points after placing 9^th with a time of 55.70 and Truong scored three points after placing 14^th with a time of 56.21.
 
In the women's 100 backstroke, Hilbrich scored nine points after placing 9^th with a time of 55.95 and Dunworth scored three points after placing 14^th with a time of 57.03.
 
In the 100 backstroke Hansson scored 14 points after placing 5^th with a time of 48.65.
 
The Monarchs scored four points in the women's 800 freestyle. The team of Lilly Cleal, Sophia Kapla, Masters and Mallory Mackay placed 15^th with a time of 7:49.25.
 
In the men's 800 freestyle relay, the team of Yagiz Ari, Bremer, Bounds, and Schattenberg palced 10^th for 14 points and a time of 6:49.77. The second Monarch team of Ethan Reiser, Russell Hronek, Drew Vanden Heuvel and Alexander Schreck placed 16^th with a time of 7:03.54 and scored four points. 
 
In the women's 200 backstroke, Hilbrich placed 10^th scoring 17 points and finishing with a time of 2:01.88. Ciriesi placed 17^th and scored nine points as she finished with a time of 2:00.77.
 
Schattenberg placed 12^th in the men's 200 backstroke scoring 15 points with a time of 1:49.31. Hansson would score six points for the Monarchs after placing 19^th with a time of 1:50.50.
 
In the men's 1650 freestyle, Ari scored 23 points after placing 7^th with a time of 15:57.28, Bremer scored 14 points after placing 13^th with a time of 16:04.50 and Carson Doll scored three points after placing 22^nd with a time of 16:22.18.
 
In the men's 200 breaststroke, Mortimer placed 4^th scoring 26 points with a time of 1:59.27 and Michael Marotta placed 18^th for seven points and finished with a time of 2:07.09.
 
In the women's 200 butterfly, Ciriesi placed 24^th scoring one point and finished with a time of 2:08.22.
 
In the men's 200 butterfly, Alexander Schreck scored 13 points after placing 14^th with a time of 1:52.93, Wells scored five points after finishing in 20^th with a time of 1:55.40 and Zander Johnson placed 22^nd scoring three points with a time of 1:58.27.
 
In the women's 400 freestyle relay, ODU had a team of Dunworth, Masters, Peyton Turner and Tanya Yevminova place 24^th scoring 12 points with a time of 3:37.05 and the second team of Emma Seidel, Brina Uhlin, Angela Sicaja and Mackay placed 26^th for 10 points and a time of 3:37.87.
 
In the men's 400 freestyle relay the team of Schattenberg, Bounds, Truong and Lincicum placed 14^th scoring 28 points with a time of 3:05.02.
                                                                                                                                          
ODU is back in action on Dec. 17 at the Open Water Championships in Miami.