Melbourne, Fla. - The Florida Tech men's swimming team honored its three seniors Luke Altmann, Jay Jay Fonnotto, and Max Martino on Saturday evening before the team's meet against visiting Lynn University. The No.19 ranked Panthers managed to come away with the win by a big score of 155-107.
 
On the day, Florida Tech recorded nine first-place finishes, seven second-place finishes, and eight third-place finishes.
 
The 200-yard relay team Zachary Reese. Connor Orth, Matteo Caruso, and Luke Altmann were the first Panthers to finish first throughout the meet with a time of 1:32.98. Behind them in second were Jay Jay Fonnotto, Matthew Heaphy, Akos Hajagos, and Joshua Cajuste with a time of 1:34.05.
 
Hajagos was Tech's first individual swimmer to come in first in the meet in the 200 Y Fly with a time of 1:58.86. shortly behind him in third in the race was Nathan Scott with a time of 2:01.55.
 
Hajagos would later go on to win the 100 Fly with a time of 50.43 as Caruso finished third in the event shortly behind at 50.74.
 
On Senior Day Altmann tallied his second overall win and first individual of the meet in the 50 Free with a time of 21.15. Altman would later go on to win the 100 Free with a time of 45.90. Caruso finished shortly behind Altmann in the 50 Free with a time of 21.25 and to complete the one, two, three sweep, Kyle Hertwig placed third at 21.51.
 
Fonnotto found himself in the win column as well on Senior Day, recording the first-place finish in the 200 Backstroke with a time of 1:52.14. As Reese trailed him for second place. With a time of 1:58.42 followed by Gaspard Thierry in third at 1:58.89.
 
The Panther's final individual one, two, three sweep came in the 200 Y IM in the order of Bryant (2:00.87), Jekov (2:01.02), and Thierry (2:01.11).
 
Connor Orth joined the individual win column during the meet as well, winning the 200 Breaststroke at 2:07.84.
 
George Jekov picked up a second-place finish in the 200 Free in a time of 1:46.16.
 
Connor Orth found himself in second In the men's 100 Y Breaststroke at a time of 57.02.
 
The men's 200 Y Backstroke saw teammates Reese and Connor Bryant finish in second a third with times of 53.26 and 54.00.
 
In the 100 100-yard free, Brayden Hohman finished in third with a time of 10:06.55.
 
The men's 500 Free saw Zachary Kopel place third with a time of 4:54.46.
 
In the final event, the 200 Free Relay, the Panthers finished first and third to end the meet. The first-place team was comprised of Altmann, Caruso, Cajuste, and Martino and clocked in at a time of 1:24.72. Tech's third-place team made up of Hajagos, Hertwig, Jacob Sykora, and Josh McLean finished in a time of 1:27.24.
 
Up Next:
The Panther's next competition will take place at the Sunshine State Conference Championships in Ocala, Florida from Wednesday, February 14^th to Sunday, February 18^th. The Championships this year will be held at Florida Aquatics Swimming & Training.
 
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