Men Take Second, Women Third at Northwestern TYR Invitational

Friday, November 20

Evanston, Ill.

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Grand Canyon

Northwestern TYR Invitational

Photo by: Deb Schaffer

Men Take Second, Women Third at Northwestern TYR Invitational

11/22/2015 10:14:00 PM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving

EVANSTON, Ill. – The Grand Canyon University men's and women's swimming and diving teams closed out the Northwestern TYR Invitational today. The men's squad achieved a second place finish, while the women finished third.

Michigan State won the men's competition with 1161.5 points. GCU had 1043 and Northwestern finished third at 852. Northwestern led the women's competition at 1188.5, followed by Michigan State at 962, and Grand Canyon at 735.

The men's team collected another pair of pool records today, earning them a total of ten for the weekend. They had the record in the 400-free relay at 3:53.37, which swam by Iegor Lytvenok, Illya Glazunov, Mazen Elkamash, and Jacob Lambros. Their second record was earned by Daniil Antipov in the 200-fly (1:44.95). Both pool records were also NCAA B times and Antipov's was a new team record.

Lytvenok had the top time in two individual events—200-back (1:44.40) and 100-IM (48.99). His time in the 200-back was an NCAA B time as was is relay lead-off of 100-free (43.67) in the 400-free relay.

Mazen Elkamash had a team record in his win in the 100-free (43.33). Lambros and Glazunov placed second and third in the same event and all three had NCAA B times. Lambros had a time of 43.83 and Glazunov had a time of 43.99. Mark Nikolaev lead off time in the 400-free relay of 44.11 was also an NCAA B cut time in the 100-free.

Antipov also won the 50-fly with a time of 21.59. Youssef Elkamash won the 200-breast at 2:00.81.

For the women's team, Iryna Glavnyk had a victory in the 200-back (1:56.27) that was also an NCAA B cut.

Rebecca Coan placed second in the 50-fly (25.06). The women's squad also had a second place finish in the 400-free relay (3:26.26) with Glavnyk, Celine Schoemans, Jade Howard, and Jovanna Koens swimming the race.

In platform diving, Cody Rankin led with a second place finish of 254.85 while Michael Bidak finished third at 209.50.

"I am very proud and impressed with what we achieved this week," said head coach Steve Schaffer. "It is without a doubt the best midseason performance we have had in the eight seasons I have been coaching this team. We won 25 of the 50 events – with the men winning 20 of 25 – against Big 10 competition. It was just fantastic. We still have a lot to improve on between now and the WAC Championships, and that's what we will get to work on this week."

The next event for both squads will be the AT&T Winter Nationals for USA Swimming on Dec. 3-5 in Seattle, Wash. A full recap will be available at www.gculopes.com.