{"id":281395,"date":"2017-10-22T18:06:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T01:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=281395"},"modified":"2018-02-07T15:47:52","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:47:52","slug":"division-ii-weekly-recap-drury-men-nova-southeastern-women-impress-in-early-season-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/division-ii-weekly-recap-drury-men-nova-southeastern-women-impress-in-early-season-showcase\/","title":{"rendered":"Division II Weekly Recap: Drury Men, Nova Southeastern Women Impress in Early Season Showcase"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are still in early season October, but the (#3) Nova Southeastern women won another early season invitational against top ranked (#1) Drury, Florida Tech and (#23) Florida Southern.\u00a0Emma Sundstedt\u00a0<\/strong>won the 1000 free for Nova Southeast with a 10:13.44, the fastest time in Division II swimming so far this year.\u00a0Sydney Panzarino\u00a0<\/strong>also had a good 50 free with a 23.55 for the win with her teammate\u00a0Jenna Johns\u00a0<\/strong>(24.01).<\/p>\n

Johns also posted a win in the 100 fly (56.02) and finished second in the 100 back (56.46) to Drury’s\u00a0Katya Rudenko\u00a0<\/strong>(56.21). Nova Southeast also got wins from Courtney Devenny<\/strong> in the 400 IM (4:29.03),\u00a0Caroline Oster\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 fly (2:06.30) and the 400 free relay team on Friday night (3:29.10). Devenny’s time is the number one time in the country while the relay is ranked second.<\/p>\n

Drury also had a spectacular showing on the women’s side from\u00a0Bailee Nunn<\/strong>. Nunn won the 100 breast (1:01.67), 200 IM (2:04.20), 200 breast (2:18.32) and led off the winning 200 free relay (23.24) and the second place 400 free relay (50.93) all in nation leading times. Nunn currently leads Division II in five different events. Nunn also split a 1:01.74 on Drury’s 400 medley relay team that currently leads the Division II rankings (3:49.22).<\/p>\n

On the women’s side, the only other nation leading time out of the weekend came from Queens’\u00a0McKenzie Stevens\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 fly (2:01.11) in Queens’ loss to Virginia Tech and Liberty, as well as Delta State’s Lucia Martelli<\/strong> in the 100 back (55.80) in their loss to Lindenwood.<\/p>\n

In the men’s side, (#2) Drury won the Fall Showcase in Florida ahead of (#3) Nova Southeastern, (#16) Florida Tech and Florida Southern. The biggest story of the meet came from Joan Casanovas<\/strong> of Drury and Franco Lupoli<\/strong> of Nova Southeast in the 500 and the 1000. Casanovas got the upper hand in both races and posted a 4:31.07 and a 9:22.52 for the number one time in Division II so far this season. Lupoli posted a 4:31.47 and a 9:25.69 to sit third and second in the national rankings respectively.<\/p>\n

Florida Tech’s Victor Rocha Furtado<\/strong> won the 100 free with a 44.49 as the nation’s leading time in Division II. Drury’s 400 medley relay (3:21.57) and Florida Tech’s 400 free relay (3:03.10) also posted the top time in Division II in those events.<\/p>\n

Other nation leading times from the weekend came from Queens’\u00a0Nick Arakelian\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 IM (1:50.14) and the 200 breast (2:01.22),\u00a0Paul Pijulet\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 fly (47.94) and 100 back (48.26) and Lindenwood’s\u00a0Justin Winnett\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 breast (55.24).<\/p>\n

Other highlights from the weekend in Division II swimming came from:<\/p>\n