Swimming and Diving Hosts Annual Blue-Gold Meet
10/12/2007 12:00:00 AM | Swimming & Diving
Oct. 12, 2007
PITTSBURGH--Pitt's swimming and diving team opens its season on Friday, Oct. 12, with its annual Blue Gold intra-squad meet at 3 p.m., at Trees Pool. The Panthers will split into two teams, Blue and Gold, and compete against each other during the contest.
Leading the Blue squad for the men are senior captains Scott Shearer (Allison Park, Pa./North Allegheny) and Warren Barnes (Pickering, Ontario/Dunbarton). The Gold team leaders are senior captain Jeremy Stultz (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills) and Jared Martin (Richmond, Va./Nova).
On the women's team, senior captains Kelly O'Hara (Voorhees, N.J./Timber Creek) and Colleen Sullivan (Alexandria, Va./Bishop Ireton) will lead the Blue team, while junior captain Stacie Safritt (Cranberry Township, Pa./Seneca Valley) and senior Brittany Stevens (Peachtree City, Ga./Starr's Mill/Florida State) head the Gold team.
Last season, the Gold team won on the men's and women's side. Junior Adam Plutecki (Zielan Gora, Poland/High School #VII) led the men in the meet, winning all four of his events and setting two meet records.
Sophomore Lisa McDonnell (Columbia, Pa./Hempfield) broke a meet and freshman record in the 100 back, as the women rewrote a total of eight records in last year's event.