Palmer and Somridhivej named NESCAC Swimming and Diving Performers of the Week

HADLEY, Mass. — Bates ladies’s swimming junior Sarah Palmer and males’s swimming senior captain Marrich Somridhivej are the NESCAC Performers of the Week, as introduced Tuesday by the New England Small College Athletic Conference. 

This marks the primary time in program historical past that Bates swimming and diving has swept the NESCAC Performer of the Week awards, which began in 2007-08. 

Palmer (Brunswick, Maine) is the primary Bates ladies’s swimmer to win NESCAC Performer of the Week since Sophie Cassily ’25 earned the distinction in 2024. She had one other stable weekend of swimming, going undefeated towards each Gettysburg and Middlebury within the breaststroke occasions. Against Gettysburg, Palmer gained the 50-yard breaststroke (29.94) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.75), and versus Middlebury, she posted successful instances of 1:05.67 within the 100 breaststroke and a couple of:24.31 within the 200 breaststroke, all non-suited. Further, she continued to evolve within the dash freestyle, posting a cut up of 24.6 seconds in each meets.

Somridhivej (South Windsor, Conn.) had a meet to recollect towards Middlebury on Sunday. Coming off some heavy coaching main into the meet, the senior discovered a method to swim two lifetime bests. In the 100 freestyle, he posted a time of 45.98 seconds, however much more impressively, he touched the wall in a time of 53.07 seconds within the 100 breaststroke to set a brand new NESCAC document. Somridhivej additionally posted splits of 24.08 within the 200 medley relay and 20.5 within the 200 freestyle relay. He is the second Bates males’s swimmer this season to win NESCAC Performer of the Week, becoming a member of junior John Weigel (Iowa City, Iowa), who earned the distinction on Dec. 9. 

The Bobcats are again within the pool this Saturday once they go to Tufts for a twin meet. The motion will get underway at 1 p.m.