Thursday, January 23, 2025
Rider Broncs vs. Lafayette Leopards
Location: Lawrenceville, NJ
Start Time: 5:00 PM
 
What You Need To Know
- The Bronc men enter Senior Day at 1-5, while the women are 2-4 going into the final dual meet of the season. The Leopards enter the meet at 2-4 on the men's side and 0-6 on the women's side.
- The Bronc men were picked to finish third in the MAAC Preseason Coaches Poll.
- The Broncs top returners this season are Maxwell Connelly (Kinnelon, NJ/Kinnelon), who won the 200-breast at the ECAC Championships a season ago in addition to fourth and fifth place finishes in the 200- and 100-breast respectively at the MAAC Championships, and Stavros Xantheas (West Orange, NJ/West Orange) who earned a silver medal on the 1-meter and bronze medal on the 3-meter in the diving events at the MAAC Championships in 2023.
- Xantheas has been named MAAC Diver of the Week twice this season.
- Connelly, who won MAAC Swimmer of the Week after his performance against Villanova, ranks fifth in the conference in the 200-breast and sixth in the MAAC in the 100-breast.
- Tivon Benjamin (Palm Bay, FL/St. Anthony's Secondary School) ranks fifth in the MAAC this season after swimming 51.58 in the 100-fly against the Pirates.
- Billy Ruddy (Newton, NJ/Kittatinny Regional) won two individual events against Lehigh last Friday to secure MAAC Swimmer of the Week honors earlier this season. He currently ranks third in the MAAC in the 100-breast, third in the MAAC in the 100-free, and seventh in the MAAC in the 50-free.
- Cesar Alvarez (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/The Ashton School) ranks seventh in the MAAC in the 100-free.
- Derek Fantano (Morris, CT/Holy Cross) ranks fourth in the MAAC this season in the 100-back, fifth in the MAAC in the 200-back, ninth in the conference in the 1,000-free, and tenth in the MAAC in the 500-free.
- Nicholas Lane (Hackettstown, NJ/Lane Academy) sits eighth in the MAAC in the 100-back.
- Ethan Rogowski (Waterford, NY/Shenendehowa) ranks fourth in the MAAC in the 100-fly and fifth in the league in the 200-fly.
- Tivon Benjamin is currently eighth in the MAAC in the 100-fly.
- The Rider women were picked to finish eighth in the preseason coaches poll.
- Hannah Yemec (Bluffton, SC/May River) will lead the women's effort in the pool this season after earning a silver medal in the 100-fly along with two other B-Final performances at the MAAC Championships last year.
- In the season opener at Seton Hall, Maiti O'Connor (South Plainfield, NJ/The Wardlaw-Hartridge School) won the 1-meter diving event with a score of 230.02 and took third in the 3-meter with a score of 203.70 to earn MAAC Diver of the Week honors. She followed up that performance with a win in the 1-meter against Lehigh, scoring 245.10, along with a score of 254.63 to take second on the 3-meter to earn MAAC Diver of the Week honors for the second time this season. She has claimed a total of three weekly awards on the year.
- Casey McLaughlin (Ramsey, NJ/Ramsey) ranks tenth in the MAAC this year in the 1,000-free.
- Last season, Rider topped Lafayette, 192.5-103.5, on the men's side. Matthew Borovik (Deerfield, IL/Deerfield) swept the breast events in the meet.
- The Rider women were defeated by Lafayette, 184-110, last season. Suriya Pathammavong (Rochester, NY/Churchville Chili) won the 200-breast in the meet.