MIDDLEBURY, VT (February 22, 2025) – For the second straight day, Tufts University senior
Eric Lundgren and a Jumbo relay both won titles at the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Men's Swimming & Diving Championships Saturday at Middlebury College.
Tonight in the finals, the Jumbo 200 medley relay team of Lundgren, senior
Emmett Adams, junior
Armaan Sikka and senior
Soeren Euvrard were historic. They won the race in a 1:26.82 time that was a school, pool, meet and NESCAC overall record. They broke the year-old meet and conference mark of 1:26.85 set by Williams College last year. The previous school record of 1:27.37 had been established earlier this season at the MIT Winter Invitational.
In the 100 backstroke later in the evening, Lundgren continued his outstanding performance at the meet by winning in a time of 47.54 seconds. He has now won the 50 and 100 backstrokes and been the lead backstroke leg for the 200 and 400 medley relays that have won. He will go for a 2025 NESCAC backstroke sweep, and his fourth career title in the 200 event on Sunday.
With these two wins leading the way, Tufts has now scored 1076 points at the conference championships. They are second behind Williams College's 1371.5 total, with Amherst College in third place (922.5).
Tufts had two individuals score in the championship finals of the 1000 freestyle, the 100 butterfly and the 100 backstroke on Saturday night. Sophomore
Dan Godino's 9:19.74 time in the 1000 free was fourth, and classmate
Rafae Shafi's 9:21.60 mark placed seventh. Sikka was also fourth in the 100 fly with a 48.16 touch, while senior
Ethan Schreier tied for seventh in a time of 49.09 seconds. Euvrard was also 11th in the 100 fly (49.47). In addition to Lundgren, Schreier was eighth in the 100 back at 50.66 seconds in his second finals of the evening. Senior
Brian Uribe added a 16th in the 100 back (50.92).
The diving tandem of senior
Cameron Yuen and sophomore
Elias Brandt concluded a good scoring weekend in the three-meter event today. Yuen totaled a 398.25 score that was fifth overall and Brandt's 393.45 took sixth place.
The Jumbos had two sixth-place finishes in Saturday's swimming events. Junior
Connor Townson led four Jumbos in the top 19 of the 400 individual medley. His sixth-place mark was 4:00.11. Freshman
Timmy Brady was 12th (4:04.10), junior
Nate Pfeffer 14th (4:06.97) and graduate student
Bora Calis took 19th (4:07.01).
In the 200 freestyle, freshman
Ron Lyubman's sixth (1:40.37) led four Tufts swimmers in the top 21. Freshman
Sam Harris was the second Jumbo and 12th overall with a 1:41.75 mark. Right behind him in the consolation final was graduate student
Eli Houlton in 13th (1:41.85). Sophomore
Jan Springer's 1:44.11 time made 21st place.
Five Jumbos scored in the 100 breaststroke top 20 tonight. Adams' 55.07 won the consolation final for ninth place overall. Sophomore
Jack Nussbaum's 57.30 in that race was good for 16th place overall. In the pre-consolation final, senior
Charlie Duffy won (17th overall) in 55.70 seconds, sophomore
Will Kaminski swam 18th (56.48) and senior
Darrien Johnsen placed 20th (56.92).
The Jumbo B team in the 200 medley relay – freshman
Campbell McFall, Kaminski, Schreier and Duffy – were 14th overall with a 1:31.48 swim.
The 200 medley A relay, Sikka in the 100 butterfly and Adams for the 100 breaststroke added to the Jumbos' list of NCAA B cuts at the meet. Lundgren was below the 100 back mark, but had already qualified with his opening leg of the 400 medley relay on Friday.
On Sunday, the last day of the competition will feature the 200 backstroke, the 100 freestyle, the 200 breaststroke, the 200 butterfly, the 1650 freestyle and the 400 freestyle relay. The preliminaries begin at 10 AM and the finals will start at 5:30 PM.
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