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Victor Polyakov

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    2/24/2014
  • Sport
    Men's Swimming & Diving
  • Bio
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Victor Polyakov was named the PSAC Male Swimmer of the Meet. Polyakov was a four-time individual champion, who set a PSAC mark in the 200-yard freestyle on the first night of the championships.

West Chester University claimed its 16th straight and 27th overall Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference men's swimming championship at the York YMCA Sunday evening. The Golden Rams concluded the 56th PSAC Championships with a school record 1,036 points.

On Thursday, Victor Polyakov set a new conference record in the first event of the night Polyakov touched the wall in 9 minutes, 4.20 seconds, setting a new PSAC mark, and NCAA automatic qualifying time, while taking first-place honors in the 1000-yard freestyle.

On Friday, Polyakov won his second PSAC title in as many days with a victory in the 200-yard freestyle. He touched the wall in 1 minute, 37.36 seconds, which was 0.32 seconds off an NCAA automatic qualifying time.
Polyakov. also played a role on the 400 medley relay winning team, swimming with Luke Maguire  Michael O'Brien, Bogdan Grebenyuk and their winning time was 3:18.22.

On Saturday, Polyakov started the night with his third individual conference title, winning the 500 free with a time of 4:27.31.

West Chester University's 800-yard freestyle relay team closed out day three of competition by setting a new conference record by three seconds. The 800 free relay, consisting of Bradley Strathmeyer, Phil Letcavage, Jared Haley and Victor Polyakov, touched the wall in 6 minutes, 34.66 seconds – outdoing their own school record of 6:37.63, which the foursome set back in November.

On Sunday, Polyakov claimed his fourth individual title of the meet in the 100 free with a time of 44.77, The 400 free relay team of Polyakov, Dan Sokman, Bradley Strathmeyer and Ryan Stahley closed the competition with a winning time of 3:00.08.

West Chester will now train for the NCAA Division II Men's Swimming & Diving Championships next month in Ohio.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
10/7/2013 Lexi Brown Women's Soccer
10/7/2013 Victor Polyakov Men's Swimming & Diving
9/30/2013 Ronell Williams Football
9/30/2013 Hannah Davies Field Hockey
9/23/2013 Amanda Eisman Women's Cross Country
9/16/2013 Rondell White Football
9/16/2013 Annalee Halbert Women's Volleyball
9/9/2013 Julia O'Brien Women's Volleyball
9/9/2013 Rondell White Football
10/1/2012 Kelsi Lykens Field Hockey
10/1/2012 Rondell White Football
5/21/2012 Tori Dugan Women's Lacrosse
5/21/2012 Jack Provine Baseball
5/8/2012 Josh Heyne Baseball
5/8/2012 Kathleen Casey Women's Track & Field
4/23/2012 Matt Baer Baseball
4/23/2012 Kayla Owens Women's Track & Field
4/16/2012 Griffith Basehore Men's Golf
4/16/2012 Kaley LaFleur Women's Gymnastics
4/11/2012 David Goldenberg Men's Tennis
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