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SWIMMING & DIVING RESULTS
MIT Invitational
At Cambridge, MA
Friday-Saturday, December 4-5, 2009
Meet
Results
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Gordy
Jenkins swam the second leg of the runner-up 200 freestyle
relay
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CAMBRIDGE -- Senior quad-captain Rob Matera
(Trumbull, CT) won by large margins in the 1-meter and
3-meter diving events at the 2009 MIT Invitational on Friday and
Saturday. His performances helped Tufts place second out of seven
teams at the meet.
Matera won the 3-meter event with a 319.70 score that was almost
60 points better than second-place Max Norris from NYU (259.80). In
one-meter, Matera earned a score of 293.15 that was nearly 39
points better than Norris's runner-up tally of 254.30 points. Both
of Matera's scores were over the NCAA qualifying standard.
The Jumbos finished second at the meet despite not having an
individual swimmer place among the top two in any event. With their
depth, they scored 750.5 points to trail only host MIT (1,197.5).
Third-place NYU finished with a 696 score. Brandeis, Bowdoin,
Colby, and Wheaton were also in attendance.
The Jumbos featured two runner-up relays. The 200 freestyle
foursome of junior David
Meyer (Clarendon Hills, IL), junior Gordy
Jenkins (Kansas City, MO), junior Andrew
Altman (New Fairfield, CT), and sophomore Owen
Rood (Branford, CT) touched in 1:25.83. The 200 medley
group of sophomore A.J. Testa (Cheshire, CT),
senior quad-captain Lawrence
Chan (Fresh Meadows, NY), senior Patrick
Kinsella (Hinsdale, IL), and Rood swam 1:36.88 for
second place.
The MIT Invitational was the final meet of the first semester
for Tufts. After their annual winter training trip to Fort
Lauderdale, they compete at Wesleyan with Williams on January
16.
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