Males’s Swimming & Diving: Nine Scots Acknowledged by MIAC Following MIAC Championships

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Nine members of the Macalester College males’s swimming & diving workforce have been honored, because the MIAC introduced its year-end awards right this moment. The prime three finishers at this previous weekend’s MIAC Swimming & Diving championships earned All-MIAC recognition, with the following three finishers within the particular person occasions and the fourth-place finisher within the relays receiving All-MIAC honorable point out.

All 5 of Macalester’s relay groups have been named All-MIAC. The 200-yard freestyle relay workforce of senior Casey Meretta (Potomac, Md./Winston Churchill), junior Thomas Moore (Philadelphia, Pa./Science Leadership Academy), sophomore Max Taufen (Evanston, Ill./Evanston Township) and senior TJ Palli (Maple Grove, Minn./Maple Grove) took second with a school-record time of 1:24.36. The similar 4 swimmers additionally broke the varsity file within the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of three:05.86 to complete second. The 200-yard medley relay squad of sophomore Kean Pajarillaga (Saipan, Marianas Pacific/Grace Christian Academy), senior Will St. John (McGaheysville, Va./East Rockingham), sophomore Jack Schumacher (Golden, Colo./Lakewood) and Palli additionally positioned second in 1:34.18. Pajarillaga, St. John, Moore and Taufen took third within the 400-yard medley relay in 3:26.55, and the 800-yard freestyle relay workforce of Moore, Pajarillaga, first 12 months Edward Barnes (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) and Taufen completed third in 6:58.01.

In the person swimming occasions, Moore positioned second within the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:42.70. He had already damaged the varsity file in that occasion by swimming a time of 1:42.12 to steer off the 800 free relay on Wednesday. Moore additionally earned All-MIAC honors by taking third within the 100-yard freestyle in 46.40. Pajarillaga was All-MIAC in each the 100- and 200-yard backstroke with occasions of 51.29 and 1:52.73, respectively.

Taufen acquired honorable point out with sixth-place finishes within the 50-yard freestyle (21.26) and the 200-yard freestyle (1:45.21). Others receiving honorable point out embrace Barnes, who was fourth within the 200-yard butterfly (1:55.47), St. John, who was sixth within the 200-yard breaststroke (2:09.50), and Murphy, who was sixth within the 200-yard particular person medley (1:56.82).

In the diving occasions, senior Dylan Herlihy (Reading, Mass./Phillips Academy Andover) turned in two robust performances. He was sixth on the 1-meter board with a rating of 341.35 and scored 322.80 factors to take sixth on the 3-meter board and earn All-MIAC honorable point out in each occasions.

As a workforce, Macalester scored 497.5 factors to completed fourth out of six groups on the MIAC Championships.