Males’s swimming caps off historic NESCAC Championships with three extra convention titles

WATERVILLE, Maine — Senior captain Max Cory efficiently defended his 100-yard freestyle title, junior Tim Johnson gained the 200-yard backstroke, and for the second straight 12 months Bates took first place within the 400-yard freestyle relay, capping off a exceptional NESCAC Championships for the boys’s swimming and diving group Sunday at Colby College’s Harold Alfond Athletics and Recreation Center.  

The Bobcats scored 1,041.5 factors at this 12 months’s NESCAC Championships, good for fifth place out of 11 colleges. It’s the primary time Bates males’s swimming and diving has surpassed 1,000 factors at NESCACs. Overall, Bates gained 5 particular person NESCAC titles, prevailed in 4 of the 5 relays, and turned in 13 All-NESCAC performances.  

Sunday Highlights

• Cory (Dublin, Calif.) broke the meet and pool document and gained his second straight convention title within the 100-yard freestyle, touching the wall within the championship last in an NCAA ‘A’ minimize time of 42.92 seconds.
• Johnson (Brewster, Mass.) broke his personal faculty document within the 200-yard backstroke, racing to the end within the championship last in an NCAA ‘B’ minimize time of 1:46.11 to seize the NESCAC title.
• The Bates 400-yard freestyle relay group of junior John Weigel (Iowa City, Iowa), Johnson, senior Nate Pierce (Fairfield, Maine), and Cory closed the meet the identical method the Bobcats did final 12 months, by taking first place. The Bobcats touched the wall in an NCAA ‘B’ minimize time of 2:56.96, breaking the college document within the occasion.
• Junior Liam Friedlander (Pittsburgh, Pa.) earned All-NESCAC honors for taking second place within the 200-yard butterfly, racing to the end within the championship last in an NCAA ‘B’ minimize time of 1:48.05. That mark breaks his personal faculty document.
• Sophomore Nate Oppenheim (Easton, Conn.) positioned eighth within the championship last of the 200-yard breaststroke in 2:01.40 after recording a prelims time of 2:01.01. Meanwhile, senior captain Marrich Somridhivej (South Windsor, Conn.) gained the comfort last in an NCAA ‘B’ minimize time of 2:00.10.

February Invitational

Sunday additionally marked an opportunity for the Bates girls’s 200-yard medley relay group to decrease their season-best time. They did precisely that, as sophomore Erin Barisonek (New Vernon, N.J.), junior Sarah Palmer (Brunswick, Maine), first-year Lily Dunn (New Canaan, Conn.), and senior captain Lianna Rosman (Bethesda, Md.) raced to the end in an NCAA ‘B’ minimize time of 1:43.62. They now have to attend to see in the event that they qualify for NCAAs.

The NCAA Championships for males’s and ladies’s swimming are set for March 18-21 on the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis. Selections will likely be introduced this week.