GREENSBORO, NC (March 23, 2024) – The Tufts University men's swimming & diving team placed ninth at the 2024 NCAA Division III Championships which finished up on Saturday.
The ninth-place finish is the team's best since 2018 when the Jumbos were seventh. It's the second straight Top-10 finish for head coach
Adam Hoyt's team, and the fifth Top-10 showing in the last six NCAA meets (2020 and 2021 were canceled due to COVID). Tufts scored 159.5 points at this year's NCAA meet.
The Jumbos had two top-eight All-American finishes tonight with junior
Eric Lundgren taking sixth in the 200 backstroke and the 400 freestyle relay closing the men's meet with a seventh-place finish.
Lundgren's sixth in the 200 backstroke marks the third straight year he has placed among the top eight nationally in the event. He made tonight's final with a 1:46.12 preliminary time, then was an All-American sixth in the championship final at 1:46.63. He leaves Greensboro with 12 career All-American awards.
The 400 free relay of graduate student
Peter LaBarge, junior
Soeren Euvrard, senior
Will Stearns and sophomore
Armaan Sikka timed 2:58.81 in the prelims to get to tonight's championship final. They combined on a 2:58.45 mark in the final for seventh place. For LaBarge, who took a fifth-year with the team this season, this finishes his career with 13 All-American honors. Sikka has nine in just two seasons, Euvrard – who had another in the 100 freestyle today – has seven and Stearns has four.
Rafae Shafi achieved his third All-American honor as a freshman with his 10th-place finish in the 1650 freestyle. He competed in the second heat of the timed final tonight and finished with a 15:36.61 mark.
Euvrard had a great week for Tufts with a team-high six All-American performances, including in today's 100 freestyle. He was 13th in the consolation final (44.76) after he had recorded a time of 44.45 seconds in the prelims.
Also in the 100 freestyle preliminaries this morning were LaBarge (44.54) 21st and Sikka 23rd (45.16).
For the 200 breaststroke the Jumbos had two entries in the morning preliminaries. Freshman
Jack Nussbaum swam 2:05.52 for 34th place, while junior
Emmett Adams touched in a 2:06.97 mark for 35th.
Nine Jumbos head back to Medford as 2024 All-Americans (with career totals) – LaBarge (13), Lundgren (12), Sikka (9), Adams (7), Euvrard (7), Stearns (4), Shafi (3), junior
Charlie Duffy (2) and freshman
Jay Wilkinson (1).
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