GREENSBORO, NC (March 21, 2024) – Tufts' 400 medley relay earned an All-American finish of sixth place to lead the Jumbo men's swimming & diving team on Day 2 at the NCAA Division III Championships Thursday at the Greensboro Aquatic Center.
Also sixth in the preliminaries on Thursday (3:15.09), the 400 medley relay timed 3:13.83 in the championship final for an All-American award (top eight). The foursome was junior Eric Lundgren, junior Emmett Adams, sophomore Armaan Sikka and junior Soeren Euvrard.
Tufts had been ninth in the preliminaries of the 200 freestyle relay today (1:21.17), then won the consolation final for ninth place overall Thursday night. The 1:20.56 honorable mention All-American time was put together by graduate student Peter LaBarge, senior Will Stearns, junior Charlie Duffy and Euvrard.
Sikka added an honorable mention All-American performance in the 100 butterfly, where his time of 48.42 seconds in the consolation final was 15th overall. The event was full of Jumbos, as Euvrard placed 20th in 48.64, junior Ethan Schreier's 48.90 was 24th, Adams touched in 49.13 seconds for 28th place and Stearns came in 33rd at 49.78 seconds.
Freshman Rafae Shafi broke the school record in the 200 freestyle with a 1:38.80 time in today's preliminaries. He improved upon the former mark of 1:39.03 by Victor Vollbrechthausen from 2022. Shafi placed 17th in today's preliminaries, one place out of the consolation final which he missed by 0.18 of a second.
The Jumbos held their seventh-place position at the 2024 NCAA meet with 92.5 team points.
Six Tufts swimmers earned All-American awards today (with career totals in parentheses), two each by Euvrard (5) and Sikka (7), and one for Duffy (2), LaBarge (12), Lundgren (9) and Adams (5).
On Friday the Jumbos will have entries in the 200 butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, one-meter diving and the 800 freestyle relay.
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