Keydets shine at CSCAA National Invitational Championship

OCALA, Fla. – VMI Men’s Swimming & Diving went right down to Florida for the CSCAA National Invitational Championship this week and returned with damaged information and rewritten historical past.
 
The Keydets positioned twenty second within the invite, the best placement in program historical past, and scored 148.5 factors, essentially the most factors on this meet in program historical past.
 
Becoming VMI’s first-ever finalist within the nationwide meet was freshman Ian Lutz, who positioned tenth within the 50 Fly on Thursday. Lutz’s 50 Fly mark broke the crew and Rat information, and was the first-ever sub-22-second time within the historical past of this system. The freshman sensation would additionally rating sixteenth within the 100 Fly and 18th within the 50 Free.
 
Jack Mills shattered the 200 Fly crew report to earn fifteenth place, whereas Aubrey Struder tallied an 18th-place mark within the 1,650 Free and Twentieth within the 1,000 Free.
 
Four relay squads certified for the invitational. Making noise was the 200 Free Relay crew with Mills, Lutz, Matthew Picard, and Sam Castle, incomes sixteenth place. The 200 Medley Relay group with Castle, Lutz, Picard, and Layne Tucker broke the crew report and positioned 18th.
 
Rounding out the relays was the 400 Free Relay crew consisting of Lutz, Picard, Mills, and Joshua Wolf took house tenth, whereas the 800 Free Relay squad with Struder, Wolf, Caleb Wolf, and Kayleb Eldridge tallied a Twentieth-place end.
 
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