KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – The Penn State men's swimming and diving team continued the Tennessee Invitational with senior Hector Garcia Boissier winning the 3-meter dive and two swimmers posting NCAA B-cut times and a pair of top five finishes Friday in the Jones Aquatic Center. Penn State had four swimmers make it to A-finals and five with NCAA B-cut times.
The Nittany Lions moved into fourth with a total of 410 points trailing No 12. Tennessee (848), Penn (480), Duke (193), and Duke (429). Both Denver and Carson-Newman follow Penn State with 404 and 119 points, respectively.
Garcia Boissier posted a season best score of 411.90 to take first place in the 3-meter. Fellow senior Jack Crow followed closely behind with a season-best 361.85 to claim fourth.
After becoming the fifth-fastest performer in Penn State history in the 200 IM Thursday, Hayden Harlow moved from the fourth to third-fastest performer in the 400 IM with an NCAA B-cut time of 3:49.09.
Freshman Michael Daly continued to strengthen his freshman campaign claiming third in the 400 IM with an NCAA B-cut time of 3:49.09. This time places Daly in second on the all-time top times for Penn State.
Sophomore Juliusz Gosieniecki made the A-final for the 100 butterfly taking sixth with a time of 48.21.
Both Nathan Schiffmann and Eben Krigger topped season-best times in the 200 freestyle. The men placed in the top-three within the B-final with Schiffmann claiming first (1:37.39) and Krigger coming in third (1:38.39).
Next Up
Penn State concludes the Tennessee Invitational Saturday morning starting with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m.
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A fundraiser has been launched to support freshman women's swimmer Nikolette Nolte and her family for costs associated with her leukemia treatment. Any surplus funds will be donated to THON and the Jessie Rees Foundation to help others facing pediatric cancer. Donate at gopsu.info/nikistrong.
