Males’s Swimming & Diving Competes at Dwelling In opposition to Brandeis on Sunday

MEDFORD, MA (November 23, 2025) – The Tufts University males’s swimming & diving crew competed at house on Sunday in Hamilton Pool in opposition to native rival Brandeis University.

At their second meet in as many days, the Jumbos had the perfect instances in all 14 swimming occasions. The two diving occasions have been contested.

Freshman Max Gerke was excellent at this time, posting the highest instances in three particular person occasions and serving to a relay to victory. He had the highest marks within the 50 backstroke (24.31), 100 backstroke (52.78) and 50 butterfly (22.73)

Gerke additionally swam the butterfly leg for the 200 medley relay which opened the meet with a 1:34.77 time that gained the occasion. Freshman Spencer Thompson led off within the 50 backstroke, senior Will Kaminski swam the breaststroke leg and freshman Aidan Cole anchored within the freestyle.

Thompson added the meet’s #1 time within the 50 breaststroke, a 27.99 contact. Kaminski’s 1:00.17 was best-mark for the 100 breaststroke. Cole had a pair of #2 instances within the 50 backstroke at 25.87 seconds and the 100 freestyle with a 47.93 time, whereas additionally collaborating within the 200 free relay.

Junior Jan Springer, Kaminski, Cole and senior Nate Pfeffer have been the line-up for the 200 free relay which mixed for a 1:26.72 end.

Individually, Pfeffer’s 1:44.49 was quickest within the 200 freestyle, and he additionally notched the second-best time of 54.39 seconds within the 100 again. Veterans Armaan Sikka and Rafae Shafi posted a high time and a second-best time at this time. The high mark for the senior Sikka was a 21.60 within the 50 freestyle, whereas the junior Shafi had his within the 500 freestyle (4:53.69). The 23.06 by Sikka within the 50 butterfly and the 1:46.34 mark by Shafi within the 200 freestyle have been #2 instances at this time. Senior Connor Townson had #2 marks for the day within the 100 particular person medley (54.26) and the 200 IM (1:59.03).

Single best-marks on the meet have been achieved by sophomores Nicolas Tudoras for the 100 butterfly in 53.89 seconds and Timmy Brady for the 200 IM (1:58.68), in addition to by freshmen Nico Ogawa within the 100 IM at 53.53 seconds and Isaac Shang within the 100 freestyle in 47.83 seconds.

Freshman JJ Arbuckle within the 100 breaststroke (1:00.52), sophomore Ron Lyubman within the 100 fly (53.99), junior Jack Nussbaum within the 500 freestyle (5:00.28) and freshman Frank Nguyen within the 50 breast (28.01) all earned #2 instances of their occasions.

The closing rating of the boys’s meet – with the Jumbos not scoring its closing 4 occasions – was Tufts 153 and Brandeis 74.

The Jumbos will subsequent be in motion December 5-7 on the MIT Invitational, their fall semester championship.

 

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