Ithaca Men's Swimming & Diving Closes Hill Center With Win Over Rochester
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca men's swimming & diving team defeated visiting Rochester 224-76 Saturday in the final scheduled meet at Hill Center Pool and on Senior Day, setting two Hill Center records in the process.
Freshman Connor White (Fox Lane/Pound Ridge) won the 100-yard backstroke in 53.64 seconds, the 100-yard butterfly in 53.34 seconds and swam the opening leg of Ithaca's victorious 200-yard medley relay team (1:37.72) that also included sophomore Jake Lichter (Weston/Weston, Mass.), freshman Taylor Van Cott (Bethlehem/Delmar) and junior Antoine Connors (Spartanburg/Spartanburg, S.C.). The 200 medley relay time was a pool record.
Junior Jeff Rapp (Liverpool/Liverpool) was also a double-winner in individual events as he won the 200-yard backstroke in 1:59.34 and the 200-yard individual medley in 2:02.07.
Lichter won the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:01.11, Connors won the 100-yard freestyle in 49.16 seconds and Van Cott won the 200-yard butterfly in 2:00.48.
Junior Derek Rand (Amity Regional/Orange, Conn.) and sophomore Martin Brow (McLean/McLean, Va.) swept the top-two places on both diving boards. Rand was first on the 1-meter board with a score of 283.10 and second on 3-meter with 247.75 points. Brown scored 260.55 on the 3-meter board to place first and was second on 1-meter with a score of 273.45.
Other individual event winners for Ithaca included sophomore Chris Cadwell (C.W. Baker/Baldwinsville) in the 200-yard freestyle (1:48.07), freshman John Carr (Brewster/Brewster) in the 500-yard freestyle (5:05.90), freshman Cheffy Thomas (Carmel/Carmel, Ind.) in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:19.07) and freshman Zack Kundel (Bethlehem/Glenmont) in the 50-yard freestyle (21.72 seconds).
Ithaca capped the meet by winning the 200-yard freestyle relay as the quartet of Connors, Carr, sophomore Jake Robbins (Fairport/Fairport) and Kundel touched in 1:26.99, also a pool record.
Ithaca honored its six seniors at the meet. The senior class includes Steve Croucher (Dallastown/York, Pa.), Jerry Diamond (Junction City/Junction City, Ore.), Bobby Gendimenico (Hillsborough/Hillsborough, N.J.), Mike Glicini (Dallas/Dallas, Pa.), Kramer Jakubek (Monroe-Woodbury/Monroe) and Norman Nguyen (Brookline/Brookline, Mass.).
Complete Meet Results