Senior Brad Crist was on two relay teams that finished second in both the 200 freestyle and the 200 medley during Saturday’s Senior Day meet against Catholic.
The Georgetown swimming and diving team handed Catholic University two losses on Saturday afternoon at McCarthy Pool, as both the men’s and women’s teams trounced their District rivals.
Georgetown swept virtually every event in a solid team win. The Hoyas earned first-place finishes in 21 out of 22 contested events.
It was the last home meet for the Hoyas this season, and nine seniors were honored prior to the meet.
Head Coach Jamie Holder also paid tribute to the seniors during the meet, putting together two all-senior squads for the men’s 200-yard freestyle and medley relay events.
“I thought it was a great meet because the energy was ridiculously high. We were going to celebrate our seniors against a team we felt really confident against,” junior Paul Quincy said.
Seniors Greg Germain, Chris Finnegan, Robert Gokey and Brad Crist finished in second place in the 200 freestyle relay with a time of 1:29.94.
The seniors finished just a quarter of a second behind the young group of freshman Michael Henze, sophomore Matthew Mandel, freshman William Lawler and freshman Michael Young.
Another relay team, comprised of senior captain Kyle Chow, Crist, Gokey and fellow senior Trevor Kosmo, competed in the 200 medley and finished, as the other other group of seniors did, in second place — this time in 1:38.32. Freshman Michael Ng, sophomore Christian Kilgore, Germain and Mandel earned top honors with a time of 1:37.75.
The revamped lineups also meant that some swimmers, like Quincy, were put in events that are not part of their usual repertoire.
“I personally got to swim some events I hadn’t gotten to compete in for years. It’s always a good benchmark as an athlete to get to race [against] old times from a few seasons ago and see that you’re improving, even if that’s not a particularly good event for you,” Quincy said. “Everyone had a lot of fun at the meet; it was good to send the seniors off with a W.”
Freshman Zoey Krulick and junior Brian McCallister will join their fellow divers in the Big East Diving Championships in Pittsburgh, as they both made Big East cuts in the 1-meter diving event. Krulick scored a 216.60 and McCallister received a 254.85.
For the women’s team, Holder included all three seniors in the 200 medley and 200 freestyle relay groups. Senior captains Kathryn Berg and Kelly Donlin and senior Kristen Pratt all swam both relay events together, finishing second in the 200 medley with a time of 1:56.44, and placing third in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:46.87.
The Hoyas have three more meets before the Big East championships in February. The Big East diving championships start Feb. 10 and the swimming championships will begin on Feb. 15.
The squad will also have time to recover and prepare for their next meet on Jan. 14. The Hoyas will face off against James Madison, VMI and American in Harrisburg, Va., to kick off the spring semester.
