Men’s Swimming : Gettysburg Grabs Two Silvers, Hits NCAA Mark

Gettysburg College came up just shy of gold on day one of the Centennial Conference Swimming Championships at the Bullets Pool, settling for a pair of silver medals and a national qualifying mark in the first two events.
 
Team Standings
1. Franklin & Marshall, 104
2. Gettysburg, 98
3. Swarthmore, 86
4. Dickinson, 82
5. Washington, 56
6. McDaniel, 52
 
Gettysburg’s Top Performers

• 200 Medley Relay – 2nd, 1:31.31 (2nd in program history)
  • Nick Cox ’23 (Purcellville, Va./Ponte Vedra)
  • Oliver Yancey ’21 (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven)
  • Jack Edelson ’21 (Charlotte, N.C./Providence Senior)
  • Sam Nonemaker ’22 (Shippensburg, Pa./Shippensburg)
• 800 Free Relay – 2nd, 6:43.85 (NCAA “B” Cut, 2nd in program history)
  • Aedan Collins ’21 (Westfield, N.J./Westfield)
  • Jack Edelson ’21
  • Duncan Proxmire ’21 (McLean, Va./Langley)
  • Danny Petrillo ’21 (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan)

 
Meet Highlights

• Gettysburg, Franklin & Marshall, and Swarthmore set the tone for the meet with a thrilling showdown in the 200 medley relay final. Cox broke out of the gate with the fastest split in the 50 back in program history at 23.01 to give the Bullets a slight advantage. Gettysburg maintained the slim lead through Yancey’s breaststroke and Edelson’s butterfly, setting the stage for a wild final 50 yards. Nonemaker was the first into the water, but F&M’s Chris Schiavone dove in right after and broke through the water like a rocket, finishing the final 50 yards in 19.58. Nonemaker held off Swarthmore’s Alec Lawless for the No. 2 spot as the team finished just over a second off the program record. Gettysburg won the “B” final with a time of 1:34.14.
• Swarthmore maintained a furious pace in the 800 free relay and finished over eight seconds under the national qualifying time while establishing pool, conference, and championship meet records. The Garnet pulled away in the middle of the race and finished in 6:39.82. The Bullets took advantage of the quick pace to post a “B” cut time of their own at 6:43.85. That time was just 1.82 seconds behind the school record set in 2013.

 
Next Up
Day two of the CC Swimming Championship begins at 10 a.m. on Friday with prelims of the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free. The finals of those events along with the finals of the 400 medley relay will begin at 6 p.m.
 

This story was originally posted on the Gettysburg College Website.