Feb. 7, 2009
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – The Notre Dame men’s swimming and diving team posted event-best marks in each of Saturday’s 16 showdowns at the Rolfs Aquatic Center, which propelled the Irish past Olivet by a 173-102 margin. Notre Dame (7-6) finishes the 2008-09 regular season with four consecutive dual meet wins after earning a trio of victories at the Shamrock Invitational on Jan. 24.
An unfortunate glitch in the timing system hindered the opportunity to make the meet’s results official and up to standard with NCAA regulations.
“Timing malfunction notwithstanding, this meet was fun,” Irish head coach Tim Welsh said. “We learned a great deal. We set up our entries so that we’d be able to see some alternatives and lineups we hadn’t seen before. It was a very helpful meet for us.
“We appear to be on schedule at this point to achieve our best times at the conference championship meet, and that’s our goal. The things we saw today encouraged us to believe that we’re on the right track. We leave today’s meet more excited about our conference championship potential than we were coming into it.”
The Irish have brought home the BIG EAST Conference team title in 2005, 2006 and most recently in 2008. This year’s meet will be held in Indianapolis from Feb. 18-21.
200 Medley Relay
1. Sherman, Mitchell; Raycroft, Joseph; Hoffman, Andrew; Van Volkenburg, Thomas
2. Wood, Jeff; Bauman, Bill; Augustyn, Patrick; Anderson, David 3. Lytle, John; Wills, Christopher; Lloyd, Patrick; Evans, Conor
1,000 Free
1. Whitcomb, Jonathan
200 Free
1. LeBlanc, MacKenzie
2. Nosal, Joshua
3. Roth, B.J.
4. Belecanech, Ryan
100 Back
1. Sherman, Marshall
3. Rahill, Kevin
4. Sullivan, Michael
100 Breast
1. Maloy, Brian
2. Wills, Christopher
200 Fly
1. Evans, Conor
2. Francesco, Colin
4. Rave, Daniel
50 Free
1. Lutkus, Danny
2. Lloyd, Patrick
3. Augustyn, Patrick
1-meter Diving
ex. Rademaker, Sean
ex. Geary, Nathan
ex. Villaflor, Wesley
ex. Dunnichay, Caleb
ex. Lex, Eric
100 Free
1. Wood, Jeff
2. Brus, Steven
4. Evans, Conor
200 Back
1. Bauman, Bill
2. Raycroft, Joseph
3. Deters, Andrew
4. Rave, Daniel
200 Breast
1. Sullivan, Michael
2. Maloy, Brian
3. Francesco, Colin
500 Free
1. Roth, B.J.
3. Wills, Christopher
100 Fly
1. Hoffman, Andrew
2. Sherman, Mitchell
3. Anderson, David
4. Lutkus, Danny
3-meter Diving
ex. Rademaker, Sean
ex. Villaflor, Wesley
ex. Geary, Nathan
200 Individual Medley
ex. Lytle, John
ex. Augustyn, Patrick
ex. Van Volkenburg, Thomas
ex. LeBlanc, MacKenzie
200 Free Relay
ex. Rahill, Kevin; Bauman, Bill; Lutkus, Danny; Nosal, Joshua
ex. Roth, B.J.; Lloyd, Patrick; Sherman, Marshall; Wood, Jeff
ex. Whitcomb, Jonathan; Raycroft, Joseph; Rave, Daniel; Sherman, Mitchell
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