Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 12 No. 6 | June 2020

22 Inside Hokie Sports A L L I S O N C L A I R E OFFICIALLY LICENSED VIRGINIA TECH FINE JEWELRY ALLISONCLAIRE.COM SWIMMING AND DIVING OVERALL RECORD: 5-1 • CONFERENCE FINISH: Fourth MEN’S MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING ATHLETE OF THE YEAR BLAKE MANOFF (So.; Haymarket, Virginia) SEASON HIGHLIGHTS • With its fourth-place finish at the ACCChampionships, the Virginia Tech men’s swimming and diving team has finished in the top five at the conference meet in 12 of the past 13 seasons. • The Hokies set five school records this past season and recorded 38 times that ranked in the top 10 of those respective events. • Eight men’s swimmers/divers earned All-America honors by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America after qualifying for the NCAA Championships—Blake Manoff (800- yard freestyle relay, 100 butterfly, 200 butterfly), Antani Ivanov (800 freestyle relay, 200 butterfly), Filippo Dal Maso (800 freestyle relay), Lane Stone (800 freestyle relay), Thomas Hallock (50 freestyle), AJ Pouch (200 breaststroke), Sam Tornqvist (200 backstroke), and diver Noah Zawadzki (1-meter, 3-meter, platform). • Manoff won a silver medal in the 200 butterfly at the ACC Championships, setting a school record with a time of 1 minute, 40.48 seconds. He also broke his own school record in the 100 butterfly with a time of 45.60 seconds, coming in fourth overall. • Manoff was an ACC Swimmer of the Week on three occasions this past season (Feb. 11, Jan. 21, and Nov. 5). • Ivanov won a bronze medal in the 200 butterfly at the ACC Championships, while Tornqvist and Pouch added bronze medals in the 200 backstroke and 200 breaststroke, respectively. Tornqvist tied the school record at 1:40.10, while Pouch’s time of 1:53.69 marked the second-fastest time in program history. • Zawadzki won a bronze medal in the 1-meter diving event at the ACC Championships. • Hallock came in fifth in the 50 freestyle at the ACCChampionships, and he set a school record in the preliminaries with a time of 19.32 seconds. • The Hokies scored 898 points at the ACC Championships—their most since 2015—and they graduated just 13 of those points off this season’s squad.