O’Connor Units Program File within the 500 Freestyle, Males’s Swimming and Diving Leads After Day Considered one of Bucknell Invitational

LEWISBURG, Pa. – Brown males’s swimming and diving (1-3) earned three wins and 600.5 factors to steer after day one of many Bucknell Invitational at Kinney Natatorium. Rory O’Connor’s freshman marketing campaign continues to be historic as he received one other occasion whereas setting a program document within the 500 free. Rowland Lawver (1-meter dive) and Marton Nagy (200 IM) received their respective occasions.
 
FRIDAY EVENING SESSION
Brown had two top-five finishers within the 200 free relay as Christopher Zhang, Donavan Jeng, Jonathan Gim, and Tucker Peterson (‘A’) positioned third with a time of 1:20.27, and the ‘B’ workforce of Marton Nagy, Caden Blamer, Rudd Day, and Finn Quested positioned fifth.
 
O’Connor set a pool document within the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:17.27, breaking the earlier mark of 4:18.56 set in 2009. It was additionally a Brown document, set by teammate Matt Williamson throughout the 2025 Ivy League Championship. Christian Duetoft (second), Williamson (fifth), Max Hardart (seventh), and James Kershaw (eighth) rounded out the highest eight.
 
Lawver continued his sensational senior marketing campaign and received yet one more 1-meter dive for 32 factors. James Skipper (fourth), Matteo Vasiliadis (fifth), and Marcel Mateos Salles (sixth) earned factors for Brown.
 
Nagy repeated his prelim end and received the 200-yard IM with a time of 1:44.32. Five Bears joined Nagy within the high eight as Jake Regenwetter (third), Erik Nadecki (fourth), Max Moore (fifth), Jack Butera (sixth), and Matthew Purcell (eighth) raced within the finale.
 
Christopher Zhang positioned fourth within the 50-yard free finals.
 
Nagy, Moore, Zhang and Gim comprised Brown’s ‘A’ workforce within the 400 yard medley relay and positioned second. The ‘B’ workforce of Regenwetter, James Gottfried, Quested and Jeng completed seventh.
 
FRIDAY MORNING SESSION
Duetoft’s 4:22.06 within the 500 free received preliminaries because the sophomore superior to the finals, together with O’Connor (second), Williamson (fifth), Kershaw (sixth), and Hardart (eighth).
 
Nagy received the 200-yard IM prelims with a time of 1:46.73 and was adopted by Regenwetter (second), Nadecki (third), Moore (fourth), Butera (sixth), and Purcell (seventh) as six Bears superior to the finals.
 
Zhang superior to Friday’s finals with a fifth-place end within the 50-yard free prelims.
 
Lawver’s 377.63 within the 1-meter dive was good for first, and he moved onto the finals, joined by Mateos Salles (fourth), Skipper (fifth), and Vasiliadis (sixth).
 
TEAM SCORES AFTER DAY ONE (UNOFFICIAL)
1.     Brown – 600.5
2.     Delaware – 318
3.     UMBC – 282
4.     Seton Hall – 279.5
5.     Fordham – 204
6.     Davidson – 189
7.     Bucknell – 142
 
UP NEXT
Day two of the Bucknell Invite begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 22. Fans can watch alongside on ESPN+ and go to BrownBears.com for dwell outcomes.
 

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