Colby Males swim to Historic Win

Amherst, MA
11/15/2025

    The Colby Mens’s Swimming and Diving crew swam to a historic victory as they defeated the #20 ranked Amherst Mammoths for the primary time at school historical past. The two colleges have been competing for nearly 3 many years and this was  an enormous victory for Colby. The finals rating was 132-130. From seniors all the way down to first years everybody was concerned in serving to to safe this and many swimmers had a number of wins on the day.

    The Mules began out in dominating trend by taking victories within the first 4 occasions. The tone was set immediately with a win within the 200 Medley relay by the crew of Brandon Xiong, Shepard Kerscher, Alex Ruckel-Bekefi and Ethan Chang. First 12 months Ruckel-Bekefi swam the 2nd quickest time at school historical past on the butterfly leg. The victories continued as Brendan Kirberger gained the 1000 Freestyle, Amaan Siddiqui gained the 200 Freestyle and Xiong earned his second victory within the 100 Backstroke which he rapidly adopted 3 occasions later with one other win within the 50 Freestyle.

    After the primary break the Mules got here storming out once more as Siddiqui claimed one other victory within the 100 Freestyle. This was adopted by an unbelievable end within the 200 Backstroke as first 12 months Breacan Shea got here again from two seconds down within the final 50 to win the occasion by .01seconds. Kirberger gained his second occasion of the meet as he overcame the complete discipline within the final 100 of the five hundred  to win by over 2 seconds, Joining in on the victories was Brandon Morrison  who out touched the Amherst swimmer within the 100 Butterfly to win by .15 seconds.

    The meet got here all the way down to the ultimate relay the place Colby wanted to win to safe the victory. The crew of Siddiqui, Xiong, Chang and Morrison did simply that and the Mules have been in a position to stroll away with the win and a mark at school historical past. It was a complete crew victory and an effective way to start out off the season.

Colby appears to be like to proceed their wining methods when they may compete subsequent Sunday November twenty third in opposition to Hamilton College and Trinity College. The meet will happen at Wesleyan College in Middletown, CT and begins at 11:00 am.