NEWS | Official Conference Carolinas release

Greenville, S.C.----Wingate University junior freestyle specialist Yassine Sebbata (Temara, Morocco) is this week's Conference Carolinas Swimmer of the Week, as selected by the league's corporate office. Sebbata is honored for the first time this season.
 
Yassine Sebbata
CC Swimmer of the Week
 
Yassine Sebbata contributed to four victories, two individual and two relay, as Wingate won a CC dual meet 199-63 over Catawba. Sebbata and the Bulldogs started the day with a new team and pool record in the 200 Medley Relay, touching first with a time of 1:26.46. Sebbata swam the anchor leg.
 
The Bulldogs established two new team standards and eight Wingate Natatorium pool records Friday. Sebbata had a hand in four new pool marks with his two individual and two relay victories. Three of his four swims were NCAA Division II B cuts as well.
 
Yassine Sebbata
Event-by-Event versus Catawba
 
200 Medley Relay, 1:26.46 (new team and pool standard)
Team members: Arons Roderts, Vladimir Krstulovic, Simon Meuller, Yassine Sebbata
 
200 Freestyle, 1:36.30 (new pool standard)
 
100 Freestyle, 43.64 (new pool standard)
 
200 Freestyle Relay, 1:20.50 (new pool standard)
Team members: Sebbata, Roderts, Bartosz Szmytke, Manoel Silva
 
Wingate Swimming quick facts
 
- Wingate has 45 NCAA national championship swims lifetime (31 women, 14 men)
- At NCAAs, the WU women have earned second place once (2016) and third twice
- The 'Dogs have earned fifth place at NCAA men's meet once with five sixth-place showings
- WUSWIM student-athletes have earned Academic All-America® honors 41 times
- The Bulldogs swept the SAC championships four-of-four times, winning eight titles
- WU won 11 Bluegrass Mountain Conference crowns (seven men's, four women's) while BMC members
 
On the Horizon for the No. 5 Bulldogs

Wingate visits Queens University of Charlotte for dual meet Saturday, October 24. The first event is slated to begin at 11 a.m. inside the Levine Center.
 
Wingate University
 
Wingate University is a lab of difference-making that serves more than 3,600 students in North Carolina and offers 60 degree pathways, including 37 undergraduate majors, 10 pre-professional tracks and five dual-degree programs. Graduate students choose from seven master's and five doctoral programs. The University is home to the Cannon College of Arts and Sciences, the Levine College of Health Sciences, the Byrum School of Business, the Thayer School of Education and the School of Sport Sciences.
 
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a leader in healthcare education where nearly one in five undergraduate students is preparing to be a pharmacist, physician assistant, physical therapist, occupational therapist or nurse. Student-athletes on Wingate's 30 teams compete in NCAA Division II and have brought home the SAC Echols Athletic Excellence Award the past 18 times it has been awarded. The University's motto is "Faith, Knowledge, Service." View current news and videos at www.wingate.edu.
 
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