Division II Meet Of The Week: Nova Southeastern Sweeps Tampa

Photo Courtesy: Sunshine State Conference

The Nova Southeastern Sharks traveled down to Tampa last week, with the #2 men and #4 women’s team sweeping the Spartans at their home pool. The Nova men won over the Spartans 169-93, while the women’s team won 181-81.

The men’s meet was dominated by the Sharks, with the Nova men winning 13 of the 14 events in the competition. Junior Franco Lupoli posted two NCAA qualifying times in the distance events, touching the wall first in the 1,000 (9:34.10) and 500 (4:35.98) frees. His time in the 1,000 free was a season best time and puts the distance specialist 6th in the country. The only event the Sharks failed to win was the 100 butterfly, which was won by Spartan Marc-Oliver Caron.

The women’s meet was even more dominant for the Sharks, as their women’s team swept all 14 of the contested events. Senior Emma Wahlstrom secured two more NCAA provisional cuts in the 100 free (51.35) and 200 free (1:50.96), both of which were also season best times. Both times also have Wahlstrom in the top 10 in the country, with her 200 free positioning her third. Teammate Malin Westman, a junior, also posted two provisional qualifying times en route to the winning the breaststroke events. Westman posted a 1:03.88 in the 100 breast and 2:17.69 in the 200 breast to sit within the top 10 nationally in both events. Full results of the meet can be found here.

Such a dominant win for the Sharks signals that they should be in the mix to challenge for both team championship titles at the Sunshine State Conference Meet in February. Both teams were second at last year’s conference meet behind Florida Southern. Nova will be competing against Tampa again in four weeks at the three-day Spartan Invitational, which should give us a clue of what a rested Nova team may look like at the end of the year.

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