Queens Cruises Through Fall Frenzy Day Two

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Queens men's & women's swimming & diving team finished up Day Two of the three-day 2023 Kellianne Nagy Fall Frenzy on Saturday at the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center.

Find Saturday finals results here.

Queens finished up the day racking up multiple ASUN records and meet records — The Queens women currently sit in first place with 1128.5 points after day two. Following Queens is Nova Southeastern with 824.5.

For the men, the Royals sit with a solid display of 1532 points, while Wingate sits next with 983 points.

WORDS FROM SENIOR ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH LAU
"Hard to ask for a better day 2 of Fall Frenzy," Senior Associate Head Coach Jon Lau said. "We challenged our team to take it to the next level and they delivered in a huge way!"

PRELIM NOTES

Maddie Foster kicked off the second day with a 53.75 time in the Women's 100 Yard Fly, dropping 1.87 from her entry time. Abigail Zboran, who scattered the leaderboard later on in the meet, finished right behind her with a 54.49.
For the Men's 100 Yard Fly event, Conner Wang made a splash with a 48.00 time (a season-best).
Matthew Shanahan snagged an impressive career-best in the 400 Yard IM event with a 3:54.56.
The Men's 200 Yard Free event saw Daniel Meszaros take home a first-place finish with a time of 1:37.31.

FINALS NOTES

In the nightcap, Queens took home gold and bronze in the 200 Yard Medley Relay as swimmers Maren Patterson, Annika Huber, Maddie Foster, and Ryley Heck swam a time of 1:39.69 and Bianca Wettel, Libby Livesay, Kayla Schmelzer, and Daryna Maznytska finished with a 1:42.50.
The men went back-to-back with a first-place finish of 1:27.24 (Caden Fritz, Balazs Berecz, Conner Wang, Matej Dusa) and a second-place finish with 1:27.76 (Andreas Marz, Noah Beladi, Yannick Plasil, Nien Levy).
Soon after, Foster and Zboran took home first and second in the Women's 100 Yard Fly - with Foster smashing the meet record with a time of 52.93. The previous meet record was claimed by Polina Lapshina of Queens on Nov. 17, 2018. Zboran came close behind with a time of 54.27.
Wang kicked it into high gear in the Men's 100 Yard Fly, taking home a 47.54 time, a career-best.
Shanahan took home another victory in the 400 Yard IM in the finals with a 3:55.03. Plasil ended in third place with a 3:55.97 in the event.
Per usual, Zboran snagged another spot on the podium. This time - in the Women's 200 Yard Free with a third-place time of 1:49.09 (a career-best time).
In the same event for the men, Meszaros found himself in the top spot with a 1:35.26 time.
Danielle Melilli displayed her dominance once again in the Women's 100 Yard Breast event with a time of 1:00.57. The time beats a previous meet record by Mikaela Fullerton of UNC Asheville on Nov. 20, 2021. Huber followed extremely close behind with a time of 1:00.86.
Patterson took home the silver in the Women's 100 Yard Back with a time of 54.86, a career-best for the rookie.
Marz and Plasil finished in the two and three spot in the Men's 100 Yard Backstroke, with times of 48.77 and 49.89.
In the 800 Yard Free Relay, Queens (Foster, Zboran, Sophia Lange, and Melilli) drove home the win with a meet record time of 7:14.31. The record was previously held by Nova Southeastern (7:19.62) on Nov. 19, 2022.

Catch the final day of the Fall Frenzy on Sunday, Nov. 19 with a 9:30 a.m. Prelims start and a 5:00 p.m. Finals start.

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