MIDDLEBURY, VT (February 21, 2024) – The Tufts University men's swimming & diving team won two events on the first full day of competition at the 2025 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championships Friday.
Senior
Eric Lundgren won the fourth individual conference title of his career, taking the 50 backstroke with a time of 22.36 seconds. He had timed a Middlebury pool record of 22.21 for the best time in the morning preliminaries. He then came back Friday night for the win in the finals, his first in the 50 back at the conference meet.
The Jumbos then closed Friday's action with a victory in the 400 medley relay. The all-seniors team of Lundgren,
Emmett Adams,
Ethan Schreier and
Soeren Euvrard put together a 3:13.81 mark that was also a Middlebury facility record.
With the two victories, the Jumbos increased their score at the Championship to 597.5 points. They trail meet leader Williams College (788.5), while Amherst College is currently third (498.5).
Adams also had a great swim in the 50 breaststroke final tonight, where his 24.96 time was second in the race and just 0.02 off his own school record. Euvrard added an individual third with his 20.32 time in the 50 freestyle.
The Jumbos had started Friday night's finals with a fourth-place finish in the 200 freestyle relay. Euvrard, Adams, Schreier and sophomore
Will Kaminski timed 1:21.81. Tufts was second in the B race (13th overall) with a 1:23.77 time put forward by sophomore
Jan Springer, freshman
Campbell McFall, graduate student
Eli Houlton and senior
Charlie Duffy.
Tufts' best depth of scoring event on Friday was the 500 freestyle. Freshman
Ron Lyubman led the Brown & Blue with a 4:27.59 mark for fourth place. Sophomore
Rafae Shafi also finaled and was 6th in a 4:31.29 touch. Sophomore
Dan Godino in 10th (4;33.30), freshman Nick Montford in 16th (4:41.39) and junior
Nate Pfeffer in 21st (4:40.03) scored valuable points.
Tufts scored four times among the top 18 in the 50 breast. Behind Adams, Kaminski was 12th (25.60), sophomore
Jack Nussbaum took 17th (26.05) and senior
Darrien Johnsen placed 18th (26.12). The Jumbos also had good grouping in the 50 free. Behind Euvrard was Kaminski in seventh (20.80), Springer 16th (21.30) and McFall tied for 22nd (21.27).
Senior
Cameron Yuen and sophomore
Elias Brandt both advanced to the final round in one-meter diving. Brandt's 410.50 score for 11 dives placed fourth, while Yuen was right behind him in fifth (406.65).
Junior
Armaan Sikka led Tufts' 50 butterfly group with a sixth-place finish of 22.13 seconds. Duffy scored 16th in the event at 23.11 seconds and Houlton was 24th in 23.35 seconds. Junior
Connor Townson was a finalist in the 200 individual medley (seventh in 1:51.30), while senior
Brian Uribe placed 21st in a 1:53.79 swim.
McFall and freshman
Sam Harris were pre-consolation finals competitors in the 50 back, placing 18th (24.09) and 23rd (24.70), respectively.
In the 400 medley relay, Tufts was also second in the B race (13th overall) as Shafi, Nussbaum, Sikka and Springer timed 3:20.19.
Tufts recorded four NCAA B cuts on Friday. Lyubman in the 500 free, Euvrard in the 50 free, the 400 medley relay A and Lundgren with his 100 backstroke to lead the 400 medley relay all submitted times lower than the national requirement.
Saturday's third day of the meet will see action in the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, 1000 freestyle, three-meter diving and the 200 medley relay. Preliminaries begin at 10 AM with the evening finals starting at 5:45 PM. Middlebury College is hosting the meet.
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