While Georgia Tech grabbed the overall win at Friday’s meet, the Penn State men turned in some impressive times with several members of the team grabbing wins.<\/p>\n
Penn State Men’s Release:<\/strong><\/p>\n Matt Grillo<\/strong> (Montreal) and Hector Garcia Bossier<\/strong> led the Penn State men\u2019s swimming and diving team with event wins, as Georgia Tech defeated the Nittany Lions, 184-111,\u00a0Friday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0night in the GT Aquatic Center.<\/p>\n Grillo won the 50 freestyle in 21.20 seconds, while the freshman Garcia won the 1-meter dive with a score of 348.8, and came up just short in the 3-meter, placing second with 331.75 points, 3.05 points shy of first. Classmate Jack Crow<\/strong> (Bethesda, Md.) was third in the 1-meter with a score of 270.0.<\/p>\n The Lions totaled seven other podium finishes in scored individual events. Matt Stasiunas<\/strong> (Avondale, Pa.), Rory Lewis<\/strong> and Tim Maurer<\/strong> (Hershey, Pa.) both earned silver and bronze. Stasiunas was the runner-up in the 200 freestyle (1:40.35), followed by Lewis (1:41.02) in third, and placed third in the 500 free (4:37.32). Lewis was the runner-up in the 100 butterfly (50.48), while Maurer touched second in the 200 backstroke (1:52.01) and third in the 100 back (50.79).<\/p>\n Andrew Schueler<\/strong> (Camden, N.J.) was second in the 100 breaststroke (57.41) and Jonathan Seiferth<\/strong> (Allison Park, Pa.) was third in the 200 butterfly in 1:53.82. Nathaniel Bledsoe<\/strong> (Carmel, Ind.) swam the second fastest time in the 200 IM of 1:53.87.<\/p>\n Penn State will return to the pool\u00a0Saturday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in Atlanta, taking on Emory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While Georgia Tech grabbed the overall win at Friday’s meet, the Penn State men turned in some impressive times with several members of the team grabbing wins. Penn State Men’s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":111151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[54756,20958,54755,54754,54753,49485,54752,44531,27058,49811,21703,30551,44532],"class_list":["post-155025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college","tag-2015-georgia-tech-vs-liberty","tag-allison-park","tag-andrew-schueler","tag-garcia-bossier","tag-hector-garcia-bossier","tag-jack-crow","tag-jonathan-seiferth","tag-matt-grillo","tag-matt-stasiunas","tag-nathaniel-bledsoe","tag-penn-state","tag-rory-lewis","tag-tim-maurer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n