ANNAPOLIS, Md. -- Thursday's opening day of the Navy Invitational at Lejeune Hall in Annapolis finished with the Navy men's swimming and diving team in first place and the women's team in third place. The men's team amassed 1,198 points to lead the field of four full teams and the women's squad tallied 580 points to place in the middle of five teams.
Winning events on the day for the men's team were the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relay teams,
Dean Jones in the 500 freestyle and
Coleman Yates in the 200 individual medley.
The three-day event resumes Friday with trials heats starting at 10 a.m., diving prelims at 12:30 p.m. and finals for swimming and diving at 6 p.m.
Top-10 (Championship Finalists) Navy Finishers
200 Freestyle Relay - Women
5th / 1:34.32 -
Kaitlyn Landers, Julianna McCranie,
Ela Habjan,
Elsie Delacruz
6th / 1:34.99 -
Addy Herl,
Samantha Clifford,
Erin Miller, Ana Fleming
200 Freestyle Relay - Men
1st / 1:18.38 -
Preston Kessler,
Gavin Green,
Lachlan Andrew,
Ben Denman-Grimm
T-2nd / 1:20.14 -
Juan Mora,
Henry Cain,
Matt Beehler,
Simon Thompson
500 Freestyle Relay - Women
4th / 4:54.43 -
Sarah Eldridge
9th / 4:57.47 -
Marin Rose
500 Freestyle - Men
1st / 4:21.74 -
Dean Jones
3rd / 4:25.47 -
Martin Perecinsky
4th / 4:25.74 -
George Ivascu
5th / 4:27.17 -
Chase Maier
8th / 4:30.14 -
Ben Mauldin
9th / 4:30.32 -
Luca Oliva
200 Individual Medley - Women
6th / 2:03.88 -
Elsie Delacruz
7th / 2:04.13 -
Lauren Walsh
200 Individual Medley - Men
1st / 1:47.76 -
Coleman Yates
3rd / 1:49.09 -
Kellan Pattison
6th / 1:49.82 -
Jaiden Sreenivasan
7th / 1:50.05 -
Gio Aguirre
8th / 1:50.08 -
Will Jones
9th / 1:50.28 -
Michael Phillips
50 Freestyle - Women
No Championship Finalists
50 Freestyle - Men
2nd / 20.00 -
Ben Denman-Grimm
3rd / 20.05 -
Lachlan Andrew
4th / 20.06 -
Preston Kessler
5th / 20.22 -
Juan Mora
6th / 20.23 -
Simon Thompson
7th / 20.25 -
Gavin Green
400 Medley Relay - Women
4th / 3:44.91 -
Ela Habjan,
Lauren Walsh, Julianne McCranie,
Kaitlyn Landers
6th / 3:45.22 -
Addy Herl,
Maddie Koutavas,
Clarice Spencer,
Viviana Vergara-Anglim
10th / 3:48.01 - Georgia Aguirre,
Corinne Warriner,
Samantha Aguirre,
Erin Miller (non-scoring finisher)
400 Medley Relay - Men
1st / 3:10.00 -
Ben Irwin,
Michael Phillips,
Lachlan Andrew,
Ben Denman-Grimm
2nd / 3:11.28 -
Luke Lamb,
Juan Mora,
Dean Jones,
Preston Kessler
6th / 3:16.05 -
Martin Perecinsky,
Noah Robinson,
Alex Park,
Simon Thompson (non-scoring finisher)
Three-Meter Diving - Women
5th / 259.20 -
Mackenzie Kim
One-Meter Diving - Men
2nd / 284.50 -
Anthony Sciulli
8th / 247.00 -
Luke Ogren
Women's Scores
1. 802.50 - UC Santa Barbara
2. 767.50 - Villanova
3. 580 - Navy
4. 497 - James Madison
5. 288 - Old Dominion
6. 137 - Rutgers (divers only)
7. 58 - North Carolina State (divers only)
Men's Scores
1. 1,198 - Navy
2. 643 - UC Santa Barbara
3. 521 - Villanova
4. 411 - Old Dominion
5. 125 - George Washington (divers only)