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Volume CXXXIII, Number 17 |
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Swimmers, divers fare well at NESCAC championships
MELISSA PERRIN
STAFF WRITER
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| A Bowdoin swimmer starts his race off the block. The men's swim team ended its season on Saturday with the NESCAC championships. Bowdoin placed seventh out of 11 teams. (Hans Law, Bowdoin Orient) |
The Bowdoin Men's Swim Team capped a successful season last weekend as the host of the NESCAC championship meet. The team placed seventh in an 11-team field, scoring 544 points, finishing ahead of rivals Bates (505) and Colby (511.5). Williams (1732.5) won the meet decisively, beating second-place Amherst by over 300 points.
In addition, nationals-bound diver and captain Brian McGregor '04 was recognized as the Four Year High Point Diver. Over the weekend, he placed third on both the one-meter (445.85) and 3-meter (392.35) boards, en route to All-NESCAC honors in both events.
Bowdoin also crowned an individual champion as Roger Burleigh '06 smashed the NESCAC record in the 200-yard butterfly. His time of 1:51.74 set a new school record in the event and qualified him for a trip to nationals in two weeks.
In addition to his first place finish, Burleigh also finished seventh in the 100-yard butterfly (52.44) and eighth in the 50-yard butterfly (23.86).
Also earning All-NESCAC honors was captain Mike Long '04, with a second-place finish in the 50-yard freestyle (21.26). Long also came in 11th in the 50-yard breaststroke (27.77) and 18th in the 100-yard freestyle (47.88).
Max Goldstein '07, the lone Bowdoin swimmer in the Individual Medleys, had two top-eight finishes, placing fourth in the 400-yard event (4:11.33) and sixth in the 200-yard IM (1:55.63) and narrowly missing the college record.
He also placed 11th in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:13.39). Nate Hyde '07 scored in all three breaststroke events, placing 20th in the 100-yard event and 23rd in the 50- and 200-yard races.
Two first years scored in the distance events, as Mike Sighinolfi touched out Bates's Charles Swanson to finish 20th in the 1000-yard freestyle (10:24.28) and Colin Beckman dropped a minute with his 23rd place, 19:12.49 swim in the 1650-yard freestyle. Sighinolfi also finished 18th in the 200-yard butterfly to cap a grueling weekend.
Jeff Pike '04 led the way in the 50-yard backstroke with a 17th place finish, and Jason Lewis '06 and Ryan Boutin '05 came in 21st and 22nd, respectively. Lewis also came in 22nd in the 100-yard backstroke, and Pike came in 23rd in the 50-yard freestyle.
Also scoring points for Bowdoin were sophomores Carter Thomas and Ian Kyle. Thomas finished 23rd in the 100-yard butterfly and 24th in the 50-yard butterfly, while Kyle swam to a 21st place finish in the 200-yard freestyle.
"Everybody swam out of their minds this weekend," said Burleigh. "We started off very strong with fast swims on Friday and continued with that momentum all the way through Sunday night. We were at the top tier of the smaller teams and I have confidence that our team is only going to improve by leaps and bounds every year."
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