Women's Swimming & Diving's Novinskiy Earns Second NCAA Time Standard in Two Days; Delaware in First Place after Day Three

Friday, February 20

Orlando, Fla

University of Delaware

Atlantic Sun Championships

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Women's Swimming & Diving's Novinskiy Earns Second NCAA Time Standard in Two Days; Delaware in First Place after Day Three

2/20/2026 11:10:00 PM | Women's Swimming & Diving

ORLANDO, Fla. – Women's Swimming & Diving's Victoria Novinskiy earned her second NCAA time standard, this time in the 200-fly, as the University of Delaware is in first place after the third day of the 2026 Atlantic Sun Swimming & Diving Championships.

Entering the final day of competition on Saturday, the Fightin' Blue Hens have scored 1157 points

RESULTS

The women started out the night session with a second-place finish in the 800-free relay. Angi Ragazzoni, Olivia Willemsen, Lauren Hartel, and Judy Liu swam to a time of 7:15.50.
Aleksandra Dimitrova placed third in the 200-back, earning third place at 54.20. That time was good for Delaware's freshman record.
Bri Cottingham took first place in the 100-breast at 1:00.90.
Novinskiy finished first in the 200-fly at a time of 1:55.65, setting the meet record and earning another race in Atlanta for the NCAA Championships. This is Novinskiy's second year in a row winning the 200-fly at the conference level.

MEDAL COUNT
GOLD (SEVEN)

1-Meter Diving (Pastris)
100-Fly (Novinskiy)
200-Free (Ragazzoni)
400-IM (Price)
400-Medley Relay (Ragazzoni, Cottingham, Novinskiy, Liu)
100-Breast (Cottingham)
200-Fly (Novinskiy)

SILVER (ONE)

800-free relay (Ragazzoni, Willemsen, Hartel, Liu)

BRONZE (SEVEN)

200-free relay (Ragazzoni, Liu, Willemsen, Hajek)
200-medley relay (Dimitrova, Cottingham, Novinskiy, Hajek)
3-meter Diving (Pastris)
500-freestyle (Spera)

200-IM (Price)
400-IM (Spera)
200-back (Dimitrova)

DAY THREE STANDINGS
Delaware: 1157
FGCU: 1124
Queens (N.C.): 882.5
UNC Asheville: 558
Georgia Southern: 549.5
North Florida: 482
Old Dominion: 431
Gardner-Webb: 356
Bellarmine: 206

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