Washington, D.C. – Spending the first part of the weekend in the nation's capital, Manhattan swimming and diving capitalized on the experience with great results in the pool and a great time as tourists outside the water.
In the tri-meet against American and Howard on Friday evening, the Jasper men defeated both teams to remain a perfect 6-0 against their competition this year. The women fell to the Eagles and were narrowly edged out by the Bison.
On Saturday, both teams went out on the town, visiting the Air and Space Museum, the Lincoln Memorial, the Capitol Building and more.
The Jaspers are idle until Sunday, October 21 when they participate in the NJIT Invitational in Newark, NJ. The women will face MAAC foe Saint Peter's as well as Mount St. Mary's, while the men battle those programs and the host Highlanders.
WOMEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
- Freshman diver Lexington Passamonte (Rochester, NY / Greece Athena) set the program's high mark in the 3-meter dive as she scored 194.40. She also notched a career-best on the 1-meter at 188.45. Both dives put her in third.
- Junior Kelsey Eastman (Effort, PA / Wagner) placed third in the 50 Free (25.17 seconds), 100 Breast (1:10.72) and tied for bronze in the 100 Free (55.78 seconds).
- Freshman Sarah Hamilton (Northland / New Zealand / St. Cuthbert's College) collected two bronzes in the 200 IM (2:18.72) and 500 Free (5:28.32).
- Seniors Cassandra Rubino (Thiells, NY / North Rockland) and Klaudia Nagrabska (Belmont, MA / Belmont) had top-five performances in the 100 Fly (1:01.90) and 100 Breast (1:12.55), respectively.
MEN'S HIGHLIGHTS
- Sophomore Andre van Huyssteen (Paarl, South Africa / Paarl Boys) won the gold in the 200 Free (1:43.44) as well as the 100 Fly (50.88 seconds).
- Sophomore Artur Polyak (Haifa, Israel / Pittsburgh) edged out Matt Bean of American to win the 100 Back in 54.48 seconds. He also finished second in the 200 IM with a time of 1:59.55.
- Freshman Branden Deiss (Benoni, South Africa / Crawford College Lonehill) finished in the top three in two of his individual races, placing first in the 1000 Free in 10:07.15 and second in the 500 Free in 4:53.26.
- In the 100 Free, freshman Kyle Bergin (Lynbrook, NY / Lynbrook Senior) was Manhattan's top finisher, beating classmate Matthew Shen (Waxhaw, NC / Marvin Ridge) by .08 seconds for the bronze.
- The 100 Breast had juniors Tyler Dalton (East Stroudsburg, PA / Pocono Mountain East) and Timothy Valentine (Massapequa, NY / Chaminade) as well as freshman Brian Coleman (Charlotte, NC / Charlotte Catholic) go back-to-back-back at third, fourth and fifth.
- Freshman diver Connor Marshall (West Hartford, CT / Avon Old Farms) was first in the 3-meter dive with his tally of 162.90.
- In the relays, Manhattan had two quartets finish third in the 200 Medley and 800 Free.
