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Wrapping up the regular season this weekend against the Hokies!

Diving at 5 PM Friday, swimming at 11 AM Saturday.

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2IM and 200 free relay left to go. Should be another Pack win

For the second year in a row, the NC State swimming and diving teams ended the regular season with a sweep over the Hokies as both squads defeated Virginia Tech on Saturday afternoon.

The No. 6 Wolfpack women defeated the 14th-ranked Hokies 168-126, and the No. 6 Pack men wrapped up the outing with a 164-136 victory over No. 15 Virginia Tech. With the win, the men's squad finished the year with a perfect record in invitational and dual meet action.

INDIVIDUAL HIGHLIGHTS:
Multiple Wolfpack seniors picked up top finishes in their final home meet of the 2020-21 campaign.

Jacob Johnson finished a body length over the rest of the field in the 200-yard backstroke to take home the top finish. He touched at 1:43.88, just over a second off of the best time of his career.

Julia Poole added a victory in the 200-yard freestyle with a winning time of 1:49.21, and fellow seniors Victoria Fonville (22.95) and Sirena Rowe (23.04) went 1-2 in the 50-yard freestyle for the Wolfpack women.

Junior Kylee Alons continued her unbeaten streak with the fastest times in all three of her individual events. She kicked off her outing with the 100-yard backstroke victory (53.61) and also took first in the 100-yard freestyle (49.74). Alons also posted the fastest time of the day (2:00.15) in her first 200-yard individual medley race of the season, a race that she exhibitioned.

Ross Dant led the way for 1-2-3 sweeps for the Pack men in both distance free events, with his winning times of 9:05.74 in the 1,000-yard freestyle and 4:23.23 in the 500-yard freestyle.

Freshman Megan Pulley also impressed, with her winning 200-yard butterfly time of 1:59.46 checking in for a top finish and her fastest mark of the season. She also cracked the NC State all-time top-10 list, checking in at ninth in program history. Pulley also went on to win the 100-yard butterfly in 54.75.

NC State's divers kicked off weekend action on Friday night against the Hokies. In the final home meet of her career, senior Rachel Burston placed second on one-meter with a season-best score of 251.33. Helene Synnott made her season debut and joined her in the top three with a 239.40. Synnott also picked up a second-place finish on three-meter with an NCAA Zones cut of 290.33.

Bayne Bennett led the way for the Pack men on the boards, with his second-place one-meter score of 303.53 also checking in for a Zones cut. Patrick O'Brien also added a top-three finish on three-meter with a score of 301.50.

RELAY HIGHLIGHTS:
The Wolfpack women opened the meet by claiming the top two times in the 200-yard medley relay. Kylee Alons (24.56), Olivia Calegan (28.35), Sirena Rowe (23.72) and Heather Maccausland (22.47) went 1:39.10 for the win, followed closely by Katharine Berkoff (24.64), Andrea Podmanikova (28.63), Abby Arens (24.32) and Victoria Fonville (22.24) in 1:39.83.

On the men's side of the medley relay, the Pack posting a winning time with Kacper Stokowski (22.06), Rafal Kusto (24.16), Luke Sobolewski (20.90) and Giovanni Izzo (19.76) going 1:26.88 for the victory.

NC State rounded out the meet with a pair of victories in the 200-yard freestyle relays. The women put together a winning time of 1:30.62 with Katharine Berkoff (23.28), Sirena Rowe (22.12), Victoria Fonville (22.27) and Sophie Hansson (22.95), and the men won in 1:19.57 with Kacper Stokowski (20.55), Hunter Tapp (19.65), Noah Henderson (19.60), and Giovanni Izzo (19.77).


WOMEN'S TOP MARKS:

200 medley relay: Alons, Calegan, Rowe, Maccausland (1st - 1:39.10)
1000 freestyle: Yara Hierath (3rd - 10:00.00)
Three-meter dive: Helene Synnott (2nd - 290.33)
200 freestyle: Julia Poole (1st - 1:49.21)
100 backstroke: Kylee Alons (1st - 53.61)
100 breaststroke: Sophie Hansson (1st - 1:01.30)
200 butterfly: Megan Pulley (1st - 1:59.46)
50 freestyle: Victoria Fonville (1st - 22.95)
One-meter dive: Rachel Buston (2nd - 251.33)
100 freestyle: Kylee Alons (1st - 49.74)
200 backstroke: Emma Muzzy (1st - 1:54.49)
200 breaststroke: Abby Arens (1st - 2:12.96)
500 freestyle: Yara Hierath (3rd - 4:58.18)
100 butterfly: Megan Pulley (1st - 54.75)
200 IM: Kylee Alons (EXH - 2:00.15)
200 freestyle relay: Berkoff, Rowe, Fonville, Hansson (1st - 1:30.62)

MEN'S TOP MARKS:

200 medley relay: Stokowski, Kusto, Sobolewski, Izzo (1st - 1:26.88)
1000 freestyle: Ross Dant (1st - 9:05.74)
One-meter dive: Bayne Bennett (2nd - 303.53)
200 freestyle: Luke Miller (2nd - 1:36.03)
100 backstroke: Kacper Stokowski (1st - 47.50)
100 breaststroke: Rafal Kusto (1st - 54.56)
200 butterfly: Zach Brown (2nd - 1:45.07)
50 freestyle: Noah Henderson (1st - 20.11)
Three-meter dive: Patrick O'Brien (3rd - 301.50)
100 freestyle: Luke Miller (2nd - 44.22)
200 backstroke: Jacob Johnson (1st - 1:43.88)
200 breaststroke: Rafal Kusto (2nd - 1:59.96)
500 freestyle: Ross Dant (1st - 4:23.23)
100 butterfly: Noah Henderson (2nd - 47.30)
200 IM: Eric Knowles (2nd - 1:47.97)
200 freestyle relay: Stokowski, Tapp, Henderson, Izzo (1st - 1:19.57)


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UP NEXT:
The Pack will begin preparation for the 2021 ACC Swimming and Diving Championship meets, which will once again be contested at the Greensboro Aquatic Center. The women's championship will take place Feb. 17-20, with the men competing the following week from Feb. 24-27.

Men won 164-136
Women won 168-126

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Lots of kids swam off events, which was fun to watch.

Week 1 of the #ACCSD Championships is here!

Feb. 17 - Feb. 20
Women's Swimming
Men's and Women's Diving
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No spectators allowed, broadcast info is forthcoming

CHAMPIONSHIP MEET WEEK. Best of luck to the Wolfpack women and our men's divers as they compete at the @ACCSwimDive Championships starting tomorrow!

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Championship season.

11 AM : W 3M, M 1M prelims
2 PM : Diving finals
5:15 PM : 200 medley relay, 800 free relay

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The Wolfpack opened action at the 2021 ACC Championships on Wednesday evening by bettering the program records in both the 200-yard medley relay and the 800-yard freestyle relay. NC State's women finished second in both of those races.

Katharine Berkoff (23.37), Sophie Hansson (26.31), Sirena Rowe (23.02) and Kylee Alons (20.82) teamed up for a 1:33.52 200-yard medley relay time that was under the previous meet and ACC record. Their mark was the third-fastest swim in NCAA history, and they finished just behind Virginia's relay crew, which set a new NCAA and American record with the winning time of 1:32.93.

The Pack followed up with another No. 2 finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a final time of 6:58.48. The mark was just the third sub-seven minute time in the event in program history and lowered the previous school record of 6:59.73.

In that event, senior Julia Poole (1:44.82) opened with the fastest 200-yard freestyle time of her career, with Alons (1:44.25), Berkoff (1:43.72) and Kate Moore (1:45.69) following her to round out the race.

Both relay times were good for NCAA A cuts.

NC State's divers also opened competition at the meet, with both the women and men in action. Sophomore Helene Synnott reached the first ACC Championships final of her career on the three-meter springboard. She took seventh place with a score of 294.70 to score points for the Wolfpack women.

NC State will continue action at the ACC Championships on Thursday, with prelims scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., diving finals at 2:30 p.m. and swimming finals at 7 p.m. The entire day of action can be streamed live on ACCNX.

Full day ahead at #ACCSD!

11 AM : prelims
2:30 PM : diving finals
7 PM : swimming finals

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Junior Kylee Alons repeated as 50-yard freestyle champion to highlight four podium finishes for the Pack on the second day of action at the ACC Championships.

After two days of competition at the conference meet, the Wolfpack women stand in second place with 486 total points. The squad is just 24 points behind current leader Virginia.

50 FREESTYLE:
After the morning prelims session, Alons entered the night with the top seed in the A final. She was able to successfully defend the title that she first won in 2020, with her finals time of 21.78 clocking in at first place.

The Pack loaded up on points in this event, as Katharine Berkoff (4th, 22.08) and Heather Maccausland (6th, 22.32) also swam in the top flight.

B finalists: Sophie Hansson (22.40, 9th), Sirena Rowe (22.46, 11th) Victoria Fonville (22.56, 13th)
C finalist: Olivia Calegan (22.84, 21st)

200 IM:
The Wolfpack women also had three swimmers in the 200-yard individual medley A final. Julia Poole took third place with a 1:54.52 mark that was split seconds off the program record and was the best time of her career.

Freshman Abby Arens impressed with a fifth-place time of 1:55.45, which checks in at third in the school record books, and Emma Muzzy placed sixth in 1:56.66.

B finalist: Andrea Podmanikova (1:58.39, 13th)
C finalist: Olivia Fisher (2:01.61, 23rd)

500 FREESTYLE:
Kate Moore finished on the 500-yard freestyle podium for the third season in a row. The senior went 4:38.09 in the A final to take second place. Freshman Yara Hierath also swam in the A final, with her time of 4:44.83 checking in at eighth in program history. She took sixth place overall.

C finalist: Kay Foley (4:46.82, 18th)

200 FREE RELAY:
NC State capped off the night with another silver medal relay finish, this time in the 200-yard freestyle relay. Berkoff (21.85), Alons (21.11), Hansson (21.83) and Maccausland (21.81) went 1:26.59. They were narrowly out-touched by Virginia's winning relay that clocked in at 1:26.54.

DIVING:
NC State wrapped up action on the springboards before turning its attention to platform for the remainder of the meet. Rachel Burston was the only top-24 finisher for the Wolfpack women on one-meter with a score of 245.05, and Patrick O'Brien (316.70) and Bayne Bennett (300.90) earned top-20 finishes on three-meter to score for the Pack men headed into next week's action.

UP NEXT:
The Pack returns to the pool on Friday for the third day of competition at the ACC Championships. Prelims are set for an 11 a.m. start, with diving finals at 2:30 p.m. and swimming finals at 7 p.m. The full date will be aired live on the ACCNX.

The Wolfpack women's swimming and diving team continued to shine at the 2021 ACC Championships, with Friday's action at the meet highlighted by a pair of record-breaking wins from Sophie Hansson and Katharine Berkoff.

The Pack remains in second place as it goes into the last seven events of the women's conference championship meet on Saturday. NC State has now won a total of three events on the weekend and picked up a total of 13 podium finishes through three days of action in Greensboro. The team has 868 team points behind Virginia's 1,025 points.

100 BREASTSTROKE:
Hansson continued to show off her dominance in the 100-yard breaststroke as she took home her third-straight conference crown in the event. Virginia's Alex Wenger broke Hansson's conference record from 2020 in the morning prelims, putting Hansson as the two seed headed into the A final.

The junior captain drew even with Wenger at the final turn of the championship race and managed to surge past her at the finish. Hansson's winning time of 57.45 took back her conference record as she out-touched Wenger by .15 seconds. She became just the third swimmer in program history and the first since the mid-1980s (Tricia Butcher) to win an ACC individual title in the same event three seasons in a row.




Andrea Podmanikova joined her on the podium with a third-place finish. Her 58.10 mark took over the spot at No. 2 in the program record books and was also an NCAA A cut. Olivia Calegan rounded out the Pack's attack in the A final with a 59.17 for seventh place.

B finalists: Heather Maccausland (1:00.03, 9th), Anna Shumate (1:00.95, 14th)

100 BACKSTROKE:
Berkoff immediately followed with the defense of her 100-yard backstroke title. The sophomore entered the meet as the favorite, posted the top time in the prelims and cruised to her second-straight ACC victory in the event with a 50.45 meet record. NC State has now won the 100-yard backstroke every season since 2017.




Danika Huizinga also qualified for the A final. After cracking the NC State top 10 with a 52.90 in the prelims, she went 52.94 in the finals for seventh.

B finalist: Katey Lewicki (53.34, 13th)

400 IM:
Kate Moore earned another silver medal, this time in the 400-yard individual medley. A two-time champion in the event, Moore finished in 4:04.73 and was just split seconds off her lifetime best that ranks first in program history.

Emma Muzzy joined her in the A final, with her 4:05.60 checking in at fourth. Both of their times were season bests.

400 MEDLEY RELAY:
The Pack continued its silver medal relay streak on Friday night, ending its penultimate day of competition with second place in the 400-yard medley relay. Berkoff (50.53), Hansson (57.98), Kylee Alons (50.21) and Maccausland (48.16) teamed up for the 3:26.88 time that took over as the fastest mark in program history.

100 BUTTERFLY:
Alons picked up her second individual podium finish of the meet and took third place in the 100-yard butterfly. The NC State junior bettered her own program record in the prelims (51.11) and lowered that mark even further to 50.74 in the A final. Her NCAA A cut time made her the first Wolfpack woman in the team's history to touch in under 51 seconds in the event.

B finalist: Abby Arens (52.07, 10th)

200 FREESTYLE:
Julia Poole was the solo A finalist for the Pack in the 200-yard freestyle. She took home another bronze medal in 1:45.53.

PLATFORM:
The Wolfpack women finished up diving action on Friday morning with action on platform. Freshman Mary O'Neill secured a top-24 finish, with her score of 220.85 coming in at 16th overall.

UP NEXT:
The Wolfpack women and NC State's men's divers will conclude competition at the 2021 ACC Championships with a final day of action on Saturday. Prelims will begin at 11 a.m., the men's platform final is slated to start at 3 p.m., the 1,650-yard freestyle prelim heats will be raced beginning at 4 p.m. and swimming finals are set to start at 7 p.m. Saturday's session will be broadcast live on the ACCNX.


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The NC State women's swimming and diving team added a pair of first-place event finishes to its tally on its way to wrapping up the ACC Championships meet with a second-place finish as a team.

The squad's 1,317 points finished behind Virginia's 1,486. The Wolfpack women have now finished second two seasons in a row and in the top three at four-straight conference meets.

The Pack heads back to Raleigh with a total of five event titles from the conference meet. The Wolfpack women put together six of the fastest swims in program history in addition to two meet records and one conference record. Including the five gold medals, NC State earned a total of 18 podium finishes over the last four days.

Gold (5)
50 freestyle: Kylee Alons (21.78)
100 breaststroke Sophie Hansson (57.45 ACC record, meet record, program record)
100 backstroke: Katharine Berkoff (50.45 meet record)
200 backstroke: Emma Muzzy (1:51.12)
200 breaststroke: Sophie Hansson (2:04.87 program record)

Silver (9)
200 medley relay: Berkoff, Hansson, Rowe, Alons (1:33.52 program record)
800 freestyle relay: Poole, Alons, Berkoff, Moore (6:58.48 program record)
500 freestyle: Kate Moore (4:38.09)
200 freestyle relay: Berkoff, Alons, Hansson, Maccausland (1:26.59)
400 IM: Kate Moore (4:04.73)
400 medley relay: Berkoff, Hansson, Alons, Maccausland (3:26.88 program record)
200 backstroke: Katharine Berkoff (1:51.06)
200 breaststroke: Andrea Podmanikova (2:05.86)
400 freestyle relay: Poole, Maccausland, Rowe, Arens (3:14.63)

Bronze (4)
200 IM: Julia Poole (1:54.52)
100 butterfly: Kylee Alons (50.74 program record)
200 freestyle: Julia Poole (1:45.53)
100 breaststroke: Andrea Podmanikova (58.10)

200 BREASTSTROKE:
Sophie Hansson maintained her control of the breaststroke events as she picked up the win in the 200 with a time of 2:04.87. The swim made her the first sub-2:05 200-yard breaststroker in NC State women's swimming history. The race secured her breaststroke sweep at the ACC Championships, a feat which she has accomplished in each of her three seasons of action. She became just the second woman in program history to sweep a pair of events three times in her career and the first to do it three seasons in a row.





The A final was loaded with Wolfpack women, with four of eight spots claimed by the Red and White. All of the Pack's 200-yard breaststroke A finalists put together the fastest swims of their careers. Andrea Podmanikova joined Hansson on the podium, clocking in at second in 2:05.86 for an NCAA A cut. Abby Arens (2:07.56) and Julia Poole (2:07.73) finished fifth and sixth, respectively, with their lifetime bests.

B finalists: Heather Maccausland (2:10.56, 9th), Olivia Calegan (2:12.29, 13th), Anna Shumate (2:13.28, 14th)
C finalist: Olivia Fisher (2:13.89, 19th)

200 BACKSTROKE:
Emma Muzzy also took home her third-straight victory, with hers coming in the 200-yard backstroke. She and teammate Katharine Berkoff were neck and neck at the final turn, but Muzzy's final underwater helped her surge to the lead that she held on to over the final 25 yards. She clocked in with a winning time of 1:50.12, with Berkoff's second-place time coming in at 1:51.06.




Kate Moore placed seventh in the A final in 1:54.50 to add to the Pack's attack.

B finalists: Danika Huizinga (1:54.18, 10th), Katey Lewicki (1:55.34, 12th)

400 FREESTYLE RELAY:
NC State took silver in every relay event, capping off the meet with second in the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:14.63. Poole (48.84), Maccausland (48.59) Sirena Rowe (48.83) and Arens (48.37) teamed up for the final relay of the meet.

100 FREESTYLE:
After reaching the A finals in all three of her individual events, Kylee Alons secured her third podium finish of the conference meet in the 100-yard freestyle. She won a silver medal in the event for the second season in a row, with her 47.73 tying as her collegiate best. Victoria Fonville (49.76) joined her in the top heat and placed eighth.

B finalist: Sirena Rowe (49.36, 12th)

MILE:
Both of NC State's 1,650-yard freestyle swimmers competed in the fastest heat of the event. Yara Hierath led the way for the Pack, touching in fifth place with a time of 16:18.21. Kay Foley's time of 16:34.18 was good for 12th overall.

MEN'S PLATFORM:
Matt Sexton qualified for his first ACC Championships final and scored some points for the Pack men headed into next week's swimming events. The freshman placed eighth in the prelims to earn a spot in the final, and he bumped up a spot there with a 313.35 score to place seventh overall.


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The Wolfpack continues action at the 2021 ACC Championships as its men's swimmers wrap up conference action at the championship meet this weekend. The four-day meet only includes swimming events, as diving was contested last week, and is set to run Feb. 24-27 at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.

Information about video coverage for the meet will be updated soon.