Pitt Meet

Had a good one today at the Reilly Center Pool with the Pitt Panthers coming in for a Saturday afternoon tilt. We came out of the gates quickly with wins in the 200 Medley Relay, 1:35.28 (Koenig, Michalik, Kundzik, Robinson) just off the their season best and Ethan Rowan continuing to improve in the 1000 free with a time of 9:44.24. Pitt won the next two events, the 200 free and 100 back despite some quality swims out of Chris Baker in the 200 free 1:45.57 and Peter Koenig 53.65 and Jake Greene 54.93 in the backstroke with season best times. The Bonnies jump back with wins in the 100 breast with Mariusz Michalik (59.13) and a strong 3rd and 4th place finish out of Mike Dansa and Ilya Nenashev. Pitt took a 1-2 in the 200 fly but we welcomed back sophomore Yi Liu who has been hampered by some illness over the past two weeks, then Dawid Kundzik took the 50 free with a 21.53. After the first break Jared Robinson took second in the 100 free(48.05). In the 200 back we knew we were going to take a hit but Jake Greene (1:58.31) and David Erickson(1:58.40/Lifetime Best) and Peter Koenig minimized the damage by finishing 3-4-5.The 200 breast saw SBU 1-2 Pitt with Michalik and Dansa posting season best times of 2:09.00 and 2:11.40 respectively. Ethan Rowas owned the 500 free and cruised to an easy victory and season best time of 4:44.80 while Elias Homerin fought back from a slow start to just get touched out for 2nd going 4:52.42. The 200 IM saw the Bonnies finish 1-2 once again with Mariusz finishing off a very solid meet of 3 individual wins and 1 relay victory going 1:57.17 and Yi Liu finishing second with a come from behind 1:58.31. The 400 Free Relay finished second going 3:08.78 to finish the meet.
It was a very fun and exciting meet with the Panthers and was a great testament as we did not compromise our training at all for the meet. We are very excited about where we are at this point of the season but our goal remains to be at the end of the year. The annual pre-season predictions came out and once again we were picked to be second by the A-10 Coaches, which is where we would expect to be but we realize that we could go up or down as there are many variables that go into a season.

Here is a link to our full results from the Pitt meet:http://www.gobonnies.com/sports/m-swim/stats/2009-2010/pittresults.html .