The Stevens Men’s and Women’s Swimming teams hosted Rowan University on October 10 in Hoboken. The men fell 135-127, while the women lost 146-116, despite winning eight events. The men recorded six individual victories, finishing eight points behind Rowan.
The Women’s Swimming team opened with a win in the 200-yard medley relay. Junior Delaney Klaus, senior Ashley Settle, sophomore Samantha Gallo, and freshman Caitlyn Baum finished in 1:52.20, beating Rowan’s top team by 0.74 seconds. Klaus won both backstroke events, taking the 100-yard race in 1:00.11 and the 200-yard race in 2:13.03. Junior Eszter Kiss also earned two individual wins, finishing the 200-yard freestyle in 2:00.25 and the 500-yard freestyle in 5:21.64. Baum and Kiss took first and second in the 50-yard freestyle with times of 25.73 and 25.92, respectively. Baum later placed second in the 100-yard freestyle in 57.42.
Junior Hanna Matheson added a victory in the 200-yard butterfly, finishing in 2:16.48. Junior Dora Dvorkin placed second in the 1,000-yard freestyle in 11:19.29 and third in the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:35.35. The women closed with another relay win. Klaus, Kiss, Gallo, and Baum completed the 200-yard freestyle relay in 1:42.46, finishing more than two seconds ahead of Rowan.
For the Men’s Swimming team, freshman Rahul Shahani earned Stevens’ first win in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:59.79. Sophomore Sebastien Nappi and graduate student Ron Gvishi finished first and second in the 100-yard freestyle, recording times of 48.73 and 49.71. Junior Ethan Emerton won the 200-yard backstroke in 1:57.57, while freshman Ryan Bailey took the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:14.22. Freshman Owen Yam and junior James Johnson followed Bailey in third and fourth, giving Stevens three of the event’s top four places.
Freshman Achilles Scaperdas added a win in the 500-yard freestyle in 4:52.66. Freshman Jonah Briggs then won the 100-yard butterfly in 52.62, finishing one-tenth of a second ahead of the runner-up. Sophomore Cooper Moffatt and Shahani placed second and third in the 200-yard individual medley, finishing in 2:01.98 and 2:02.93, respectively. The men finished second and third in the final 200-yard freestyle relay. Briggs, Nappi, Sean Perez, and Gvishi led Stevens with a time of 1:28.20.
The women will visit Kean University in Union, NJ, on October 23 at 6 p.m. The men will return to competition on November 6 and 7 at the NYU Fall Invitational.
