Minna Abraham Wins Six Times as USC Tops TCU

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Minna Abraham Wins Six Times as USC Tops TCU

Minna Abraham won two individual races and was on four winning relays as USC topped TCU in a two-day invite Thursday and Friday.

The USC women’s team scored a 228-86 win at Uytengsu Aquatics Center over three sessions in an extended meet program that didn’t include diving. The USC men claimed a 239-76 decision.

Abraham won the 200 individual medley on Thursday in 1:58.08. She registered a win in the 200 freestyle in 1:43.72 on Friday. Abraham was part of all four relay wins, joined by Bella Brito and Ludovica Di Maria in three of them. The 400 medley went 3:36.50 on Thursday. Abraham anchored the 200 free relay in 21.73 for a 1:30.07 win. In the final session of three, she started the 200 medley relay in backstroke for a win in 1:39.22, then lead off the 400 free relay in 49.17 for a team time of 3:18.75.

Meet Results – Session 1, Session 2 and Session 3
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Di Maria won the 100 free event in 49.57. She also claimed the 50 free in 22.71 – .02 seconds ahead of Brito – and was second to Lindsay Barnes’ 53.27 in the 100 backstroke.

Sage Miller did the butterfly double. She won the 100 in 53.46, six tenths up on teammate Lilly Derivaux, then took down the 200 in 1:58.66, a half second up on Maxine Clark. Cornelia Fox won the 400 IM in 4:18.24, six tenths ahead of Brigitta Vass, who won the 200 breast. Fox was second to Abraham in the 200 IM. Dora Molnar was second to Abraham in the 200 free and won the 200 back in 1:55.54, besting Barnes by .28 seconds.

Avery Dillon supplied TCU’s highlight of the meet, going 16:27.67 to set the school record en route to victory in the 1,650 free. Dillon also won the 500 free in 4:45.25 and finished second in the 200 free. Nina Vadovicova won the 100 breast in 1:01.01 and was second in the 200 breast.

The Chmielewski brothers led USC’s men’s effort. Michal Chmielewski won three individual events, taking Thursday’s 100 back in 46.86 and Friday’s 100 fly in 45.86. The last win came in the 200 fly in a head-to-head race with brother Krzysztof Chmielewski with a time of 1:41.79 that bested his brother by nearly five seconds. Krzysztof Chmielewski won the 500 free in 4:21.75 and was also second in the 400 IM.

Michal Chmielewski was on all four winning relays, joined by Oliver Sogaard-Andersen in all four. The 400 medley started off with a win in 3:09.79. Sogaard-Andersen led off the 200 free in 20.33 and Michal Chmielewski split 19.30 for a team that went 1:19.55. Sogaard-Andersen anchored the 200 medley relay in 19.42 for a time of 1:27.38, and the meet closed with USC compiling a time of 2:55.38 in the 400 free.

Sogaard-Andersen did the sprint double, winning the 50 in 20.31 and the 100 in 43.69. Filip Mujan won the 200 IM in 1:48.55 and the 400 IM in 3:52.06. He was second in the 200 breast behind Junhao Chan’s 1:53.68 after Chan claimed the 100 breast in 53.13.

Day 3 featured a tie between USC’s Emiliano Zamudio and TCU’s Filip Suchanski, both going 1:46.88. Suchanski had been third in the 100 back and 400 IM. The Horned Frogs’ only outright individual win came via Deacon Gutshall’s time of 15:21.80 in the 1,650 free.

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