By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
South Carolina vs Queens (NC)
January 3, 2026 Charlotte, North Carolina SCY (25 Yards) Full Meet Results Team Scores: Women: South Carolina 181 — Queens 78 Men: South Carolina 156 — Queens 104The South Carolina women are continuing to have an electric 2025-2026 swim season, and their opening meet of 2026 saw them break six pool records as they beat Queens (NC).
The men picked up their first dual meet win of the season as they saw three new pool records at the Queens Natatorium.
Overall, 11 pool records fell. This is the 2nd year in a row that Queens’ first meet of the year has seen numerous pool records with 20 records being broken on January 3rd of 2025 when Queens raced Virginia Tech.
Note: Some of the pool records from the meet with Virginia Tech are faster than the pool records set last weekend, and the meet was swum in the same pool. The Virginia Tech meet appears to be absent from the record tracking.
Women’s Meet Recap
The Gamecock women opened the meet with a pool record in the 400 medley relay team of Amy Riordan (52.58), Alexis Dalton (1:02.24), Taylor Grimely (52.79), and Sofia Luper (50.23) swam 3:37.84 to come in nearly five seconds under the former record time of 3:42.63 from 2020.
Riordan’s leadoff leg was also a pool record, breaking the 53.60 mark set by North Carolina’s Greer Pattison in 2023.
Emma Reiser set a pool record in her 1000 freestyle win, touching in 9:47.73 to come in under the October 2025 record of 9:56.51 set by Queens freshman Leonie Tenzer. Tenzer finished 3rd in the event.
The 200 freestyle saw Abigail Zboran break Queens’ first pool record of the meet, touching in 1:47.29 to take seven tenths off Patri Castro Ortega‘s 1:48.09 record from 2015. This was a new personal best for her, dropping from the 1:49.09 she swam in November of 2023.
At the Queens vs Virginia Tech meet last year, Carmen Weiler Sastre swam a pool record 1:46.30.
Breckin Gormley picked up the next record for the Gamecocks with the 1:58.51 she swam to win the 200 butterfly taking more than a second off the 1:59.64 record set by Martine Peroni in December of 2022.
Gormley also broke the 500 freestyle pool record, swimming 4:47.03 to knock three seconds off the 4:50.67 record set by Francesca G. Bains in 2020.
The final pool record on the girls’ side was Taylor Grimley swimming 53.60 in the 100 fly. She came in three tenths under Madeline Foster‘s former record time of 53.92 from October. Foster finished 2nd in 54.28.
It wasn’t a pool record, but South Carolina finished the meet with a win in the 200 freestyle relay with their team of Dylan Scholes (22.92), Taylor Grimley (22.88), Samantha Chan (22.81), and Amy Riordan (22.79) touching in 1:31.40.
South Carolina also continued their streak of sweeping the 200s of stroke. On top of Gormley’s 200 fly pool record swim, Jordan Agliano won the 200 backstroke in 1:57.68, and Delaney Franklin won the 200 breaststroke in 2:12.86. Agliano’s swim was a new season best for her.
Other Individual Event Winners:
50 free: Kara West (SCAR) — 23.08 100 free: Dylan Scholes (SCAR) — 49.65 100 breast: Alexis Dalton (SCAR) — 1:02.79 200 IM: Delaney Franklin (SCAR) — 2:00.60Men’s Recap
The men’s meet did not see anywhere near the number of pool records, but there were a few, as the South Carolina men picked up their first win of the season.
Looking at the pool records first, South Carolina opened the meet with a new record in the men’s 400 medley relay. Ryan Hufford (47.81), Einar Margier Agustsson (52.97), Eldor Usmonov (47.04), and Bexon Harrison (43.63) swam 3:11.45 to come in just half a second ahead of the Queens’ ‘A’ relay, shattering the 2016 record of 3:16.21 in the process.
In the 200 backstroke, South Carolina freshman Merlin Ficher swam 1:44.63 to take more than a second off Max St. George’s swim of 1:46.05 from 2016.
Mario Molla Yanes swam 1:43.53 at the Queens vs Virginia Tech meet last year.
Finally, the Queens 200 freestyle relay took the final win and pool record of the meet. They swam 1:19.46 with their team of Nien Levy (20.14), Stamatis Paleocrassas (19.68), Pablo Ortega Navarro (19.78), and Jackson Vineyard (19.86). This was just four tenths faster than Virginia Tech’s 2023 record of 1:19.83.
Virginia Tech swam 1:17.84 last year.
Outside of the pool records, the South Carolina men won all but one individual event.
Junior Pierre Largeron won the 200 free in 1:36.48, coming in more than a second ahead of the field, and the 500 free in 4:26.75, the only scored swimmer under 4:30.
The only other swimmer to come in under 4:30 in the 500 was fellow junior Connor Fry, who was marked exhibition but touched in 4:29.16. Fry won the 1000 free earlier in the meet, swimming 9:03.45 to come in more than 15 seconds ahead of 2nd playce Raymond Prosinski.
Prosinski, who is also a junior, won the 200 IM as the final event of the meet in 1:50.93, just over two seconds ahead of the rest of the field.
Ryan Hufford also won two events, taking the 100 backstroke in 47.67 and the 100 free in 44.30.
Einar Margeir Agustsson was South Carolina’s final two event winner with his sweep of the breaststroke events. He swam 53.28 to win the 100 by about a second, and he won the 200 by more than two seconds as he touched in 1:57.83 to be the only swimmer under two minutes.
South Carolina also took both fly events with grad student Eldor Usmonov winning the 100 in 47.92 and senior Gage Hulbert winning the 200 fly in 1:46.86.
The only individual event that did not go to the Gamecocks was the men’s 50 freestyle where Queens junior Nien Levy swam 19.93 to earn the top spot, more than half a second ahead of South Carolina’s Usmonov.
Up Next
Queens will race again on January 24th against Gardner-Webb for their senior day.
South Carolina’s next meet will be January 10th vs Virginia Tech.
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