JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - North Florida swimming opened up home competition at the UNF Aquatic Center, hosting Florida State and Georgia Southern in the Osprey Invite. Despite strong swims from the Ospreys, Florida State came out on top in the tri-meet. UNF almost grabbed a victory over Georgia Southern, but fell short by a small margin.
Four Ospreys competed in their first swims of the competition season. All told, nine different swimmers marked personal bests from the competition.
This was the first of four home meets at the UNF Aquatic Center in the 2022-2023 competition season.
FINAL SCORE
Florida State: 1345.5
Georgia Southern: 699
UNF: 666.5
CLIPBOARD NOTES
- Freshmen Allea Jensen, Kylie Loving and Michelle Whelton made their first swims for the Ospreys
- Faith Mutschler continued her impressive swimming with three top ten finishes
- Aydan Horrigan raced to a fourth place finish and a personal best in the 400 yard IM with a time of 4:39.86
- Hannah Gnatt notched a fifth place finish in the 1000 yard freestyle, finishing in 10:49.58
- The group of Ashley Cozad, Ashley Kephart, Victoria Torres and Kate Eaton took home third place in the 400 yard free relay with a time of 3:37.61 while also securing fourth in the 200 yard free relay touching the wall in 1:40.52
- With a time of 4:01.76, Sara Maschmeier, Claire Kerber, Torres and Cozad snagged fifth place in the 400 yard medley relay
- Torres rounded out the top five in the 200 breaststroke, finishing in 2:25.38, a personal best
- Amelia Hildebrand swam a personal best of 25.02 in the 50 yard freestyle
- The Osprey Invite marked just the third official meet held at the UNF Aquatic Center since it opened last fall.
- North Florida is 7-16 all-time against Georgia Southern and 5-5 in meets held in Jacksonville
COFFEY TALK
"First off, we want to give a big thank you to both Florida State and Georgia Southern for rescheduling the meet from last week. Our swimmers really competed well today. Many of our athletes were having their first swims of the season. For the ones who swam two weeks ago, many bettered their times. Our 1000 free group did a really good job today.
Victoria Torres,
Sara Maschmeier, and
Ashley Kephart had really good swims in their respective events. Today's Osprey Invite was a lot of fun and featured good swimming, but we now shift our focus to our meet this Saturday versus Georgia Southern and Vanderbilt."
UP NEXT
North Florida women's swimming will host Vanderbilt and Georgia Southern in a tri-meet on Saturday, October 15th at the UNF Aquatic Center.
