Males’s Swim/Dive Punctuates Finish of NCAA Championships with Faculty-Document Relay

A incredible end within the 400-yard freestyle relay for the Hope College males’s swimming and diving crew closed a promising week for the Flying Dutchmen on the NCAA Division III Championships.

With a relay full of underclassmen, the Flying Dutchmen raced to a faculty file within the meet’s last occasion on Saturday on the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis.

Junior Josh Bordovsky (Herndon, Virginia / South Lakes), junior Christian Hoeksema (Holland, Michigan / Holland Christian), sophomore Everett Cox (Sugar Land, Texas / Logos Prep) and junior Graham Eisenmann (Ozark, Missouri / Ozark) clocked a school-record time of two:58.37 throughout the comfort last.

The relay completed tenth and earned Second-Team All-America honors. Bowdoin College gained the comfort last, simply 0.45 sooner.

Hope constructed on the two:58.75 posted earlier within the day throughout preliminaries, topping the 2024 mark of two:59.45 set by Colin Kalkman, Ben Catton, Graham Eisenmann and Henry Booker.

Head coach Jake Taber is happy concerning the future for the Flying Dutchmen. “They came in with confidence, they were really focused, and as the meet went on, they just continued to believe more and more in what they were capable of, and they were in it together,” Taber mentioned. “We changed the order for the relay a little bit tonight, and I think that was something given the race around us that helped a little. It’s a great group, and the future is bright.”

The Flying Dutchmen competed in two different occasions on Saturday. In the 200 breaststroke, Bordovsky simply missed the comfort last, inserting seventeenth after posting a time of two:01.38. He was three-tenths of a second from advancing.

In the 100 freestyle, Eisenmann completed twentieth within the nation with a swim of 44.53 seconds.

Hope tied for twenty sixth place with 32 factors.