Calvin Males’s Swimming and Diving Drops Twin Meet at No. 4 Chicago

RESULTS

CHICAGO, Il. – The Calvin males’s swimming and diving group traveled to the University of Chicago for a Saturday afternoon twin meet between two Division III nationally-ranked groups. No. 4 Chicago defeated No. 10 Calvin 190-110 within the meet. Calvin got here up with a number of standout swims within the competitors nevertheless.

Calvin opened the meet by profitable the 200 medley relay because the group of freshman Jackson Merkel (Grandville, Mich./Grandville HS), senior Caleb Gemmen (Mentor, Oh./Home Schooled), freshman David Gabrielle (Bethlehem, Pa./Liberty) and senior Charles Platt (Downers Grove, Il./Downers Grove North HS) hit the wall with a profitable time of 1:29.82.

Merkel claimed particular person wins within the 100 and 200 backstroke occasions. He led a 1-3 Calvin end within the 100 breaststroke with a profitable time of 48.94 whereas Gabrille was third (52.10). Merkel led a 1-3 Calvin end within the 200 backstroke, profitable the race in 1:47.79 whereas senior teammate Ryan Halberg (Novi, Mich./Northville HS) was third (1:53.81).

Gabrielle led a 1-4 Calvin end within the 100 butterfly, profitable the race in 50.75 whereas sophomore teammate Andrew Taulbee (Reynoldsburg, Oh./Reynoldsburg HS) was fourth (51.58).

Platt had a pair of runners-up finishes, inserting second within the 200 freest (1:40.93) and 100 free (45.37). Hallberg was third within the 200 free (1:42.11) after which led a 2-3-4 Calvin end within the 200 IM, profitable the race in 1:56.15 whereas freshman Evan Haney (Goshen, Ind./Northridge HS) was third (1:59.76) and freshman Antonine Douget (Paris, France/Ecole Diagonale) was fourth (2:01.88).

Gemmen was third within the 100 breaststroke (57.05) and fourth within the 200 breaststroke (2:10.37).

Calvin went 2-4 within the 500 freestyle with junior Andrew Stimpert (Normal, Il./Normal West HS) second (4:50.10) and sophomore Alex Bergsma (Carmel, Ind./Carmel HS) fourth (4:57.49).

Haney was third within the 1,000 freestyle (9:58.16) whereas freshman Kellen Morford (Medina, Oh./Medina HS) was fourth within the 50 freestyle (21.46). Junior Benjamin Wichart (Lockport, NY/Starpoint HS) was fourth within the 200 butterfly (1:59.58).

Calvin went 3-4-5 on the one-meter diving board with sophomore Carson McIntire (Hamilton, Mich./Hamilton HS) third (136.80), junior Addison Van Soelen (Lawrenceville, Ga./Providence Christian Academy) fourth (121.43) and senior Joshua Ring (Lansing, Mich./Lansing Christian HS) fifth (119.10). McIntire was third on the three-meter board (128.33) whereas Ring was fourth (127.13).

Calvin’s 200 freestyle relay group of Platt, Merkel, senior Zachary Logan (Byron Center, Mich./Byron Center HS) and Morford took second in a time of 1:23.35.

COACHES COMMENT: “Team swam really well today on the road against great competition,” stated Calvin head swim coach Dan Gelderloos. “We have a bunch of happy warriors! The energy was there from top to bottom of the lineup.”

NEXT UP: Calvin will host the MIAA Invite #2 subsequent Saturday at 11:30 a.m.