From Brandeis University Athletics
The Brandeis University swimming and diving teams ended up their 2017-18 season at the ECAC Championships at Rutgers University.
One of three Division II programs competing against Division I and II opponents, the Brandeis men finished in 13th place with 91 points.
Senior Zach Diamond (Staten Island, N.Y./Staten Island Academy) and rookie Richard Selznick (Las Vegas, Nev./Palos Verde) competed in the 1,650 freestyle. Selznick lowered his personal best and the second all-time best performance in the event with a time of 16:19.03, which was good for 16thplace. Diamond finished in 21st place in 17:05.52.
In relay action, the Judges had finalists in the 400 freestyle relays. The men just missed their school record set at UAAs by 0.13 seconds with a time of 3:08.99 swum by sophomore Tamir Zitelny (Syosset, N.Y./Syosset) and rookies Chase Chen (Villanova, Penn. / The Hill School), Marcelo Ohno-Machado (San Diego, Calif. / Torrey Pines) and Daniel Wohl (Chapel Hill, N.C./ Chapel Hill East).
In the day's preliminaries, Zitelny posted the ninth-fastest time in the 200-yard backstroke with a mark of 1:53.16, but did not compete in the finals. The Judges had a handful of top-25 performances in the preliminaries as well. McGovern was the closest to making the final session in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:30.09, just over half a second out of making it to the evening session in 17th place.
One school record was tied in the prelim session, with senior Richard Avrutsky (Needham, Mass./Needham) swam 27.17 seconds in the opening lap of the 200-yard breaststroke to match a mark set in 2009 by Marc Eder '09
Rookie Joe Beletti-Naccarato (Delmar, N.Y. / Bethlehem Central) had a 20th-place finish in the 100 back, swimming 1:58.37, about two seconds out of the top 16. Wohl also finished in 20th place, coming about half a second out of the finals in the 100 free with a time of 46.78, the second-fastest time in school history.