CAMBRIDGE, MA (December 3, 2023) – The Jumbo men's swimming and diving team won the MIT Winter Invitational for the second straight year, outscoring the hosts 1875 to 1567.50 and winning the five-team competition.
In the most competitive meet of the first semester, the Jumbos finished with a strong Sunday that included event victories by junior
Eric Lundgren in the 200 backstroke, junior
Soeren Euvrard in the 100 butterfly and freshman diver
Jay Wilkinson in the three-meter event. Two fast relay performances were also among five runner-up finishes for the Jumbos in the finals tonight.
The evening started with Tufts' 1:28.41 time for second place in the 200 medley relay. The Jumbo four of Lundgren, junior
Emmett Adams, Euvrard and graduate student
Peter LaBarge became the third-fastest in the event at Tufts, and earned an NCAA B cut (1:29.91) in the process.
Lundgren got the win in the 200 backstroke with his 1:46.55 mark in the final. It was an NCAA B cut, faster than the 1:49.15 qualifying mark. Sophomore
Jack Madden timed 1:48.27 in the prelims for an NCAA mark, and was third in the final (1:49.00).
Euvrard followed with a victory in the 100 butterfly, finishing in 48.27 seconds. The time made him second-fastest for the event in Tufts history and was an NCAA B mark (48.76). The Jumbos went 1-2-3 in the event with junior
Ethan Schreier second in 48.62 seconds and sophomore
Armaan Sikka third at 48.69 seconds, both NCAA B cuts.
Wilkinson achieved an excellent 500.70 score to win three-meter diving on Sunday. It surpassed the NCAA qualifying standard of 440 and places him third among all Jumbos in the event. Tufts had two others make its Top 10, with sophomore
Jeremy Lawrence scoring 436.80 for #6 all-time and freshman
Elias Brandt compiling a 422.40 mark for eighth at Tufts. They were fourth and fifth at the meet, respectively.
Freshman
Jack Nussbaum had a break-out performance in the 200 breaststroke tonight, swimming 2:02.20 for second place at the meet and making him #2 all-time at Tufts. Junior
Charlie Duffy went 2:02.90 in the finals for third in the race and #4 in Tufts history. Senior
Willie Xu (2:03.50 final) and junior
Darrien Johnsen (2:03.83 prelim) were also good for Tufts at the event.
The 400 freestyle relay of LaBarge, Euvrard, freshman
Jan Springer and Sikka put themselves at #2 in Tufts history with a 2:59.34 time tonight. They were second in the race and faster than the NCAA B qualifying limit (3:01.91).
LaBarge swam identical 44.71 times in the 100 freestyle prelims and final. It was second at the meet and below the NCAA B cut (45.11). Euvrard had a 45.33 in the morning.
Freshman
Rafae Shafi became the third-fastest Tufts individual in the 500 freestyle with his 4:32.87 time that was the fastest in the morning preliminaries. He did not compete in the final, where freshman
Dan Godino was Tufts' best finisher in fourth place (4:39.39). Lundgren added a fifth-place 1:52.30 time in the 200 individual medley final.
The Jumbos will compete next Saturday at Wesleyan University with Williams College and WPI in the final action of the first semester.
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