From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics
The Carnegie Mellon University men's swimming and diving team traveled to Atlanta, Ga., on Friday, February 14 for the University Athletic Association Swimming and Diving Championships hosted by Emory University. As inclement weather hit the Atlanta area, three competing teams were unable to make it in, thus requiring a satellite meet that is being hosted by Case Western Reserve University. Final results to determine champions will be compiled late Sunday evening or Monday morning.
The other schools which were able to travel to Emory include Brandeis University, New York University and Washington University as University of Chicago and University of Rochester will be swimming at Case Western Reserve.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of sophomore Carter Sharer (Oakton, Va./Oakton), sophomore Lucas Bruder (Wildwood, Mo./Lafayette), sophomore Alex Dintino (Cherry Hill, N.J./Cherry Hill East) and senior Eddie Sears (Boca Raton, Fla./Spanish River) started the evening tying the school record with a time of 1:23.46 as the 800-yard freestyle relay team of Sears, freshman Evan Li (Cupertino, Calif./Monta Vista), freshman Brian Walsh (Winnetka, Ill./New Trier) and sophomore Steven Geier (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) closed the session with a new school record of 6:48.23.
Li touched second in the 200-yard IM with a career-best time of 1:53.68 as junior David Campbell (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional) and junior Roy Sung (Wayland, Mass./Wayland) reached the finals heat with season-best times of 1:54.30 and 1:53.85, respectively.
Geier reached the championship final in the 500-yard freestyle by touching in a season-best 4:36.37 during the preliminaries. Sophomore Philip Farr (Campbell, Calif./Bellarmine College) swam a season-best in the 100-yard breaststroke and set a new school record, finishing the finals in 56.89.
Junior Anton Razanav (San Diego, Calif./Westview) reached the championship final in the 200-yard backstroke, finishing the preliminaries in a season-best 1:52.19, while Sears swam in the finals of the 100-yard freestyle and finished in 46.36.
Walsh swam the team's top time of the year in the 200-yard butterfly, touching second in the finals in 1:50.53.