ECU Hosts Two Events At Minges Natatorium

GREENVILLE, N.C. – The East Carolina women's swimming and diving teams will be back in action on Friday, Oct. 7 and Saturday, Oct. 8 hosting a pair of events inside Minges Natatorium. The Pirates will welcome in Barton, Campbell and Chowan in a quad-swimming meet Friday at 4 p.m. before hosting Richmond in a heads-up event at 12 noon in the pool and diving well.

In ECU's first event of the 2022-23 campaign, junior Flanary Patterson claimed the top spot in Asheville with scores of 230.95 and 238.50. Redshirt freshman Caitlin Irvine Smith finished second with scores of 229.40 and 232.70, while senior Anna Otto took third after scoring 220.40 and 232.10 points.

Day two of the weekend was the swimming events. Graduate student Bryanna Wolfe, senior Caitlin Reynera, sophomore Laura Kellberg and freshman Claire Mowery finished second in the 200-medley relay.

Senior Polina Rukosuev won the 1000 free with a time of 10:29.60 and in the very next event (roughly two minutes later) almost pulled out the win in the 200 free getting out touched in the last 25 yards by Anna Marcotti. Rukosuev also claimed the 500 free with a time of 5:08.18.

Wolfe won a pair of races in the 100 (57.80) and 200 backstroke (2:05.38), while Reynera took first in the 100 (1:05.52) and 200 breaststroke (2:21.80). A trio of underclassmen in freshman Sadie Covington, sophomore Rachel Gibson and freshman Sara Kalawska each had stellar showings for the Pirates. Covington placed third in the 1000 free (10:39.36) and second in the 500 free (5:10.22). Gibson placed fourth in both the 100 (1:08.36) and 200 breaststroke (2:26.87), while Kalawska took second in the 100 (57.65) and 200 fly (2:09.22) and fourth in the 200 IM (2:13.97).

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Players Mentioned

Sadie Covington

Rachel Gibson

Caitlin Irvine-Smith

Sara Kalawska

Laura Kellberg

Claire Mowery

Anna Otto

Flanary Patterson

Caitlin Reynera

Polina Rukosuev

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