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Princeton Men's Swimming and Diving Captures 2012 Ivy League Dual Meet Title
Courtesy of Princeton Athletic Communications
NEW YORK -- The 24th-ranked Princeton men's swimming and diving team completed a perfect regular season and honored its brilliant senior class with a 172-120 victory over Columbia Friday afternoon at Denunzio Pool.
The 10-member Class of 2012 posted a perfect 4-0 record over Columbia, and it will look for a similar four-peat in three weeks when the Ivy League Championship meet comes to Denunzio Pool during the first weekend of March. A senior class hasn't won four straight titles since the Class of 1992, but this Tiger class has put itself in position to match that achievement.
Princeton opened Friday's meet by winning the 200 medley relay
in 1:30.28. The foursome of Michael
Strand, Brian
Barrett, Charlie Wang and
Harrison Wagner
posted a winning time of 1:30.28 to get the meet off on the right
note.
Sophomore Paul Nolle
continued his distance dominance by winning the 1000 free in
9:27.95, while freshman Conner
Jager placed third in 9:35.58.
Freshman Connor
Maher led off a 1-2-3 finish in the 200 free with a
winning time of 1:42.17. Junior Rory
Loughran took second in 1:43.36, while freshman
Caleb Tuten took
third in 1:43.53.
Senior Robert Coe
(50.96) scored a win over classmates Colin Cordes (51.06) and Charlie
Wang (51.12) in the 100 back, and junior Brian Barrett followed with a win
in the 100 breast in 57.33.
Freshman Michael
Hauss won the 200 fly in 1:48.80, while senior
Matthew LaMonaca took second in a close 50 free in
20.93.
Junior Stevie Vines
won the first diving meet of the session, the 3-meter, with 348.00
points. Freshman teammate Michael
Manhard came back to win the 1-meter with 315.67
points, while Vines took third with 289.95 points.
Sophomore Ian Rea
and freshman Harrison
Wagner went 1-2 in the 100 free, with Rea winning
the event in 46.30. Wagner was just off that pace with a time of
46.43, and sophomore Thomas
Fellowes wasn¹t far behind with a fourth-place
time of 46.61.
Coe completed his back double by winning the 200 in 1:50.78, while
Maher took third in 1:51.98. Materniak scored a win in the 200
breast (2:04.08).
Freshman Michael
Hauss won the 500 free in 4:33.34, while senior
Charlie Wang won the 100 fly in 49.06.
Freshman Andrew
Klutey won an exciting dual in the 200 IM with a
time of 1:53.61. That barely edged Columbia sophomore Eric
Traub, who touched the wall in 1:53.79.
Princeton closed the meet by winning the 200 free relay in 1:23.99
(Rea, Fellowes, Andres Tung and
Travis McNamara).
