Howard University took residence two main wins on the Northeast Conference Swimming and Diving Championships, which occurred from Feb. 17-20 on the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio.
The girls’s and males’s groups got here in first place on the competitors. The achievement marks a big milestone as Howard is the one HBCU with a Division I swimming and diving workforce.
Howard University wins the NEC Championships
The girls’s workforce at Howard took residence their first NEC title in this system’s historical past, whereas the lads’s workforce received their second consecutive championship and their third in 4 years, based on The Dig.
“This second is about greater than successful championships. It’s about displaying younger swimmers and divers — particularly those that could not see themselves represented — that they belong on this sport and may excel on the highest degree,” Nic Askew, Howard’s director of swimming and diving and tennis, advised The Dig.
“I’ve seen these younger women and men actually push themselves this whole season and I’ve by no means doubted that we might win,” he added. “I’m pleased with what we did and know that this program continues to set the usual.”
Team members additionally received particular person honors throughout the championships. Zion Wilson obtained an NEC title for Most Outstanding Diver, Zuilda “Zuzu” Nwaeze was adorned with an NEC title for Most Outstanding Swimmer (her third consecutive time doing so) and Courtenay Miller received NEC Diving Coach of the Year. Both the ladies’s and males’s groups additionally earned NEC Coaching Staff of the Year.
“Watching these groups come collectively and attain a lot actually has been historical past within the making,” Askew advised The Dig. “Never earlier than has a girls’s workforce from an HBCU received a convention title and by no means earlier than has an HBCU received back-to-back swimming and diving convention titles. These wins communicate volumes in regards to the expertise and aggressive nature of our program and what’s potential for pupil athletes contemplating attending an HBCU.”
What was Howard University’s efficiency on the NEC Championships?
The girls’s workforce secured a win with a complete of 856 factors, with Central Connecticut State University coming in second and Wagner College coming in third. On their finish, the lads’s workforce received first place with 859 factors, whereas Wagner College got here in second and Le Moyne College got here in third, based on Swimming World Magazine.
On day one of many competitors, Kaleb James, Artyton Moncur, Taj Benton and Mason Green from Howard received the 200 medley relay in a time of 1:29.12. The girls’s workforce, composed of Chanice Posada, Rhanishka Gibbs, Alyssa Napier and Gabrielle Vickles, additionally got here in first within the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:41.34. They completed second within the 800 freestyle relay behind Central Connecticut.
On Wednesday, Howard took the lead over Central Connecticut. In the 50 freestyle race, Nwaeze recorded a time of twenty-two.82, whereas Gibbs got here in at 23.01. The girls’s workforce additionally broke a report throughout the 200 freestyle relay as Nwaeze, Vickles, Zenya Posada and Jasmine Morgan got here in at 1:31.53. On the lads’s workforce, James took the primary spot within the 200 particular person medley with a time of 1:48.75 on Wednesday, whereas Green received the 50 freestyle with a time of 20.17.
Wrapping up the competitors, Howard’s girls’s workforce additionally recorded one particular person and one relay victory on the ultimate day.
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