Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 11 No. 6 | June 2019

30 Inside Hokie Sports Visit hokiesports.com/hokiekidsclub to join! KIDS CLUB THE OF VIRGINIA TECH ATHLETICS Official • The Hokies came in fourth place as a team at the ACC Swimming and Diving Championships under first-year head coach Sergio Lopez Miro and now have finished in the top five 12 times in 15 seasons since Tech joined the league for the 2004-05 season. • Sophomore Lane Stone broke his own records in the 500-yard freestyle, 1,650 freestyle and 200 freestyle events this season. He broke the 500 freestyle record at the ACC Championships, where he topped the record that he set a year ago and won a bronze medal. • Stone broke the 200 freestyle record twice at the ACC Championships on his way to a fourth-place finish. He broke Jan Switkowski’s 2014 mark in the preliminary swim and then broke his own record in the finals. • Freshman Antani Ivanov and senior Norbert Szabo also won medals at the ACC Championships. Ivanov won a bronze medal in the 200 butterfly, breaking Morgan Latimer’s school record in the preliminary swim and then breaking his own record in the finals. Szabo won a bronze medal in the 200 individual medley. • Stone and Ivanov earned honorable mention All- America honors at the NCAA Championships. Stone finished 11th in the 500 freestyle, while Ivanov came in 12th in the 200 butterfly. SEASON HIGHLIGHTS MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING ATHLETE OF THE YEAR LANE STONE (So.; Springfield, Virginia) ACC: FOURTH