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Tartans Continue Competition at Kenyon With Multiple Season-Best Times

Tartans Continue Competition at Kenyon With Multiple Season-Best Times
Posted: Dec 01, 2017

From Carnegie Mellon University Athletics

The Carnegie Mellon University men's swimming and diving team continued competition at the Total Performance Invitational hosted by Kenyon College on Friday, December 1. Numerous season-best times were achieved with freshman Max Gonzalez (Allison Park, Pa. / North Allegheny) recording an NCAA provisional qualifying time.

The 200-yard freestyle relay set a season-best time when freshman Justin Britton (Falls Church, Va. / George Mason), Gonzalez, sophomore Richard Deng (West Windsor, N.J. / West Windsor Plainsboro South), and sophomore Sam Hawke (Malvern, Pa. / Episcopal Academy) placed fourth in 1:23.54.

Sophomore Rip Lyster (Naples, Fla. / Gulf Coast) placed sixth in the 200-yard butterfly in a season-best time of 1:53.03. Fellow sophomore Alex Rastelli (Norwell, Mass. / Norwell) also swam in the finals of the 200-yard butterfly and placed ninth in a season-best time of 1:53.67.

Gonzalez touched sixth in the 200-yard freestyle in an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:40.29 and did even better in the preliminaries with a time of 1:40.17.

Junior Winston Chu (Warren, N.J. / Saint Peter's Prep) was just shy of the school record in the 100-yard breaststroke when he finished second in 55.96. Chu's brother Matthew finished seventh in the event in 56.63. Both times are season-best times.

Britton picked up a season-best time in the 100-yard backstroke during the preliminaries. His time of 50.21 got him to the top final where he placed seventh in 50.68 during the evening swim. Deng recorded a career-best time in the 50-yard freestyle in 21.13 and touched 12th overall in 21.17 in the finals.

The 400-yard medley relay team of Britton, Winston Chu, Gonzalez, and Hawke closed the meet with a sixth-place finish in 3:23.31.

Junior Gabe Bamforth (Cambridge, Mass. / CRLS) finished first on the 1-meter diving board with a season-best score of 489.85 points. Senior DeShawn Green (Newport News, Va. / Warwick) recorded a season-best score of 365.85 during the preliminaries and placed fourth in the finals with a score of 345.25.