2024 ATLANTIC SUN CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP
- Dates: Wednesday, February 21 – Saturday, February 24
- Location: Allan Jones Aquatic Middle, Knoxville, TN
- Mixed women and men
- Defending Champions: N/A (inaugural meet)
- Dwell Outcomes
- Dwell Video: ESPN+
- Championship Central: males’s website ׀ girls’s website
- Psych Sheet
- Groups: Bellarmine, Florida Atlantic (males), Gardner-Webb, Liberty (girls), North Florida (girls), Outdated Dominion, Queens, SMU (males), UNC Asheville (girls)
The 2024 Atlantic Solar Championships are within the books. The Liberty girls and SMU males are strolling away victorious, each posting decisive wins en path to the general titles.
Jack Hoagland of SMU kicked off the ultimate day sturdy, successful the 1650 freestyle in 14:54.77. He led a 1-2-3 end for the Mustangs, as Jack Forrest (15:17.61) and Hunter Lund (15:25.27) joined him on the rostrum. The ladies’s race showcased a dominant efficiency from Liberty senior Sophie Lange, who touched in 16:24.06 to win by over 20 seconds. Lange gained the five hundred free earlier within the meet, touching in 4:48.12 there.
Queens swept the 100 freestyle occasions, as Danielle Melilli touched in 48.44 to clear the ladies’s discipline earlier than Matej Dusa (42.63) gained the lads’s race. Kamryn Cannings gave Melilli an ideal race, additionally ending in a sub-49 time of 48.84. Cannings doubled up on fly wins earlier within the week, and practically grabbed a 3rd win right here.
Liberty senior Abbie Shaw accomplished her sweep of the backstroke occasions, ending in 1:55.36 to safe 200 gold. It was a 1-2 end for Liberty, with sophomore Malia Francis checking-in at 1:56.50 for runner-up standing. Queens freshman Haley Ross (1:57.37) outpaced Liberty senior Sydney Houtz (1:57.44) to seize third, stopping a sweep of the highest three podium positions.
The lads’s 200 again was led by SMU’s Cotton Fields. Fields was runner-up in each IM races earlier within the meet, however led an SMU 1-2-3 sweep on this occasion. Three swimmers broke the 1:44-barrier, with Fields (1:43.79) narrowly touching forward of teammates John Culver (1:43.93) and Jack Easton (1:43.95).
After inserting 2nd within the 100 breast a day earlier, Queens sophomore Annika Huber (2:12.09) scored 200 breast victory. She gained by a 1.68 seconds, getting her arms on the wall forward of Liberty teammates Genna Joyce (2:13.77) and Jamyson Robb (2:14.49).
SMU freshman Kristaps Mikelsons gained the lads’s 200 breast, doubling up on his win within the 100-yard distance. He touched the wall in 1:54.90, with Outdated Dominion’s Bryce Mortimer (1:55.58) and Gardner-Webb’s Justin Bender (1:56.98) grabbing 2nd and third.
Queens took a cushty win within the girls’s 400 free relay, because the squad of Danielle Melilli (48.23), Ryley Heck (49.76), Abigail Zboran (48.84), and Madeline Foster (49.97) completed in 3:16.80. The lead-off break up from Melilli was significantly spectacular, because it undercut the 48.44 she posted en path to the person win. Liberty (3:19.81) touched for 2nd and Florida Gulf Coast (3:21.36) completed third.
SMU touched over a second forward of Queens within the 400 free relay, successful in 2:50.71. Their quartet was comprised of Danny Kovac (43.30), Lance Butler (42.33), Christopher Mykkanen (42.63), and Sage Sungail (42.45). Queens hit the wall in a closing time of two:51.81, highlighted by Matej Dusa‘s lead-off break up of 42.60, which was sooner than his time from the person occasion.
Meet Awards
- Atlantic Solar Most Excellent Girls’s Swimmer of the Championship — Danielle Melilli (Queens)
- Atlantic Solar Most Excellent Males’s Swimmer of the Championship — Jack Hoagland (SMU)
- Atlantic Solar Most Excellent Girls’s Diver of the Championship — Maddie Freece (Liberty)
- Atlantic Solar Most Excellent Males’s Diver of the Championship — Tyler Coffey (SMU) & John Dymond (SMU)
- Atlantic Solar Most Excellent Girls’s Freshman Performer — Abigail Zboran (Queens) & Kamryn Cannings (Liberty)
- Atlantic Solar Most Excellent Males’s Freshman Performer — Kristaps Mikelsons (SMU)
- Atlantic Solar Girls’s Swimming Coach of the 12 months — Jake Shellenberger (Liberty)
- Atlantic Solar Males’s Swimming Coach of the 12 months — Greg Rhodenbaugh (SMU)
- Atlantic Solar Girls’s Diving Coach of the 12 months — Andrew Helmich (Liberty)
- Atlantic Solar Males’s Swimming Coach of the 12 months — Darian Schmidt (SMU)
Remaining Group Scores
Girls:
- Liberty — 897.5 factors
- Queens — 792 factors
- Florida Gulf Coast — 579.5 factors
- UNC Asheville — 535.5 factors
- North Florida — 236 factors
- Gardner-Webb — 218.5 factors
- Bellarmine — 134 factors
Males:
- SMU — 1059 factors
- Queens — 699 factors
- Florida Atlantic — 568 factors
- Outdated Dominion — 342 factors
- Gardner-Webb — 249 factors
- Bellarmine — 146 factors
