| PENN STATE @ GEORGIA INVITE | |
| Dec. 5-7 | Gabrielsen Natatorium | Athens, Ga. | |
| Results | Day 1 | | |
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Top Times: Penn State Men| Event SheetDec. 5, 2014
ATHENS, Ga. - After one full day of competition at the Georgia Fall Invitational, the Penn State men's swimming and diving team sits in sixth place with a total of 82 points. Senior Nate Savoy (Reading, Pa.) had a standout day in the pool, scoring PSU a dozen points with his seventh place finish (20.23) in the 50-yard freestyle, just hours after setting a new career best time in the event, with a 20.17 effort during preliminaries.
Also earning their team points in the championship style meet were Nick Ankosko (East Brunswick, N.J.), Matt Stasiunas (Avondale, Pa.) and David Gross (Perryville, Md.), who netted the Nittany Lions a total of 10 points between the trio during the 500 freestyle. Senior Jeff Young (Hershey, Pa.) also scored a pair of points with his 20.48 performance in the 50 free.
Although he did not score any team points, redshirt senior Tim Maurer (Hershey, Pa.) did net some personal ones with a career best 1:48.78 time in the 200-yard IM. During the diving portion of the competition, freshman Conner Scanlon (Laurel, Md.) earned a 225.45 score in the one meter and fellow freshman Travis Wright (Derby, N.Y.) followed up his teammate with a 220.95 total in the same event.
As a team, the Lions finished fifth in the 200 freestyle relay with a season best 1:20.22 time, netting themselves 28 points. Another 26 points were scored during the final event of the night, with a 2014 top time of 3:13.82 and a sixth place performance in the 400-yard medley relay.
The second day of the three-day event starts Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m., with preliminaries. Finals then begin at 5 p.m. in Athens with a total of 16 events on the docket for both the men and the women.
As a unit, the Nittany Lion men and women sit in fifth place with a combined team score of 187 points. The Penn State men saw a total of 21 times during the first day of competition that were either career best or season fastest times in the pool.