Shreveport - The Centenary men's and women's swimming teams finished second on Saturday afternoon in their annual Senior Day meet by a combined team score of 207-176 to the Austin College 'Roos in a dual meet inside the Centenary Fitness Center.
The Ladies picked up a 111-94 victory while the men fell 113-65. Centenary honored four swimmers during the meet - Anacelia Galeano-Balam (Baton Rouge, La.) Antonio Barbee (Plaquemine, La.), and Aiden Peterkin (Zachary, La.) as well as junior Madeline Vacula (Belton, Texas) who will be graduating early.
Centenary tallied 10 individual wins and the Ladies won the 200-yard medley relay. The Ladies claimed six wins and the Gents posted four. Austin College won 11 events and claimed wins in both the men's and women's 200 free relay and the men's 200-medley relay.
Barbee won the 200-yard butterfly as he swam a time of 2:09.12, Peterkin won the 200-yard freestyle (2:06.13), and Vacula claimed wins in the 100-yard backstroke (1:08.07) and the 1,000-yard freestyle (11:34.94).
Freshman Reece Esser (Huntsville, Texas) won the 100-yard butterfly (1:05.99) and teamed with Galeano-Balam, freshman Hannah Waddell (Shreveport, La.), and Vacula to win the 200-medley relay in a time of 2:03.63.
Waddell had a superb meet as she claimed three individual wins – in the 200-yard freestyle (2:06.58), 200-yard breaststroke (2:36.12), and in the 100-yard freestyle (59.36). Freshman Nick Gordon (Aurora, Colo.) picked up a pair of wins, swimming a time of 55.58 to win the 100-yard butterfly and winning the 50-yard freestyle in a time of 23.08.
Freshman Ubaldo Ayala (Hallsville, Texas) and sophomore Jameson Feeney (Shreveport, La.) teamed with Barbee and Gordon to finish second in the 200-yard medley relay in a time of 1:49.65. Ayala (1:11.90) and Feeney (1:12.12) placed third and fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke. Freshman Gunnar Durham (Lufkin, Texas) finished fourth in the 100-yard butterfly (1:04.73) and Peterkin finished fifth (1:12.02). Feeney finished second in the 200 IM as he swam a time of 2:26.41.
Sophomore Adriana de la Fuente (Baton Rouge, La.) finished third in the 200-yard breaststroke (3:24.52) and fourth in the 100 backstroke as she swam time of 1:24.07, while freshman Kennadi St. Clair (Duncanville, Texas) and freshman Stacy Brown (Baytown, Texas) finished third and fourth in the 100-yard breaststroke as St. Clair swam a time of 1:29.67 and Brown in 1:33.24. Galeano-Balam earned runner-up finishes in both the 200-yard butterfly (2:35.63) and 100 fly (1:09.25) while freshman Cicely Jackson (Lafayette, La.) finished third in the 200 fly in a time of 2:51.55. Jackson was also third in the 100 fly in a time of 1:20.30.
The Ladies earned third, fourth, and fifth-place finishes in the 50-yard freestyle as Brown was third in a time of 29.93, St. Clair was fourth (30.19), and freshman Sydney Welch (Moss Bluff, La.) placed fifth (31.97). Esser was runner-up in the 100 free (59.72) and Galeano-Balam finished fifth (1:05.52). Welch finished as runner-up in the 200 back (3:12.65).
Vacula earned a runner-up finish in the 200-yard IM (2:36.34) while Brown finished third in a time of 2:54.46. Ayala, Peterkin, and Feeney finished second through fourth in the 100 free as they swam times of 55.90, 57.90, and 100.65 respectively.
Ayala, Feeney, Gordon, and Peterkin teamed to finish third in the 200-free relay, swimming a time of 1:38.99.
The Maroon and White will be off for three weeks in preparation for the annual Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships set for Feb. 14-17 in Garland, Texas.
See the Ladies' complete season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wswim/2023-24/schedule
See the Gents' complete season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/mswim/2023-24/schedule
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