The Georgetown diving team has ended its season with a disappointing showing at the Big East diving championships in Pittsburgh, Pa., while the swimming team is making its final preparations to head there tomorrow for this week’s swimming championship. The Hoyas look forward to three full days of swimming, which will conclude on Feb. 18.

In the diving championships, the Hoyas faced stiff competition in every category and struggled to put up points.

On Friday, freshman diver Bryan Dorames took the 20thspot in the men’s 1-meter preliminaries with a score of 185.5. On the women’s side, sophomore Shannon Donohue placed 23rd overall in the 1m with 200.25 points.

Freshman Lauren Kahan and sophomore Jennifer Purksplaced 30th and 31st, respectively, with freshman ZoeyKrulick rounding out the field in 33rd place with a score of 165.55.

In the 3m competition last Saturday, Donohue scored 188.80 to finish 21st overall. Purks and Kahanonce again placed next to each other, with the sophomore finishing in 25th place and the freshman in26th.

Dorames’ showing in the 3m championship was a bright spot in the Hoyas’ otherwise lackluster performance. He finished 16th overall with a score of 220.65, helping the men’s team take 6th overall in the team standings for the diving championship.

In this week’s swimming championships, several Hoyas have a chance to perform strongly, as they have put up several of the top 100 Big East times this season.

Junior Paul Quincy has some of the best opportunities. For the men’s 200-yard freestyle race, Quincy is the top-ranked Hoya, having recorded a time of 1:41.86. He is also the highest-ranked Georgetown swimmer for the 500 freestyle, coming in ninth in the league with a time of 4:32.39. Impressively, Quincy ranks seventh for the 5000 freestyle and 13th for the 1650 race as well.

Other swimmers with potential for strong showings in Pittsburgh include sophomore Matt Mandel, who is ranked 20th for the 50 race and 33rd in the 100 race, and sophomore Christian Kilgore, who is ranked 22nd in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke.

Members of the Blue and Gray’s impressive freshman class also show up in the top 100, led by Michael Ng, who ranks 17th in the conference in the 100 backstroke. He is also the top-ranked Hoya in the 200 backstroke and in the 100 butterfly, coming in 20th and 33rd in the Big East in those events, respectively.

Senior Greg Germain hopes to end his Georgetown career in style in the 200 butterfly, where he currently sits at 32nd in the conference with a time of 1:55.48.

Sophomore Lauren Opatrny leads Georgetown’s women as the top-ranked Hoya in five different events. In the 100 freestyle, Opatrny is ranked 24th with a time of 52.33. She also recorded a 58-second finish in the 100 backstroke to gain a 26th-place ranking in that event. But her best showings are three top-15 rankings: in the 200 backstroke, where she is 15th, in the 100 butterfly, where she is 14th and in the 200 individual medley, where she is 10th.

Junior Sarah Chiles also has multiple rankings entering the championship meet in the 200, 500 and 1000 freestyle races. Chiles is ranked 42nd, 37th and 35th, respectively, in the three races.

The Hoyas also boast some solid freshmen swimmers on the women’s side. Bailey Dowe ranks 30th in the 100 breaststroke and 28th in the 200 breaststroke, while Casey Bandman and Kim DiNapoli rank 23rd in the 200 butterfly and 35th in the 400 individual medley, respectively.

With so many Georgetown swimmers on the cusp of placing at the Big East championship, expectations are high that the Hoyas can improve on their bottom-of-the-barrel performances last season.

“I’m very optimistic about how they are going to do,” Head Coach Jamie Holder told The Hoya in an interview Feb. 8.