Trinity Men's Swimming And Diving Breaks 11 Records At NESCAC Meet
Middletown, Conn. - Sophomore Dan Remigino (Wethersfield, Conn.) broke three Bantam records and swam a leg of four other record-breaking relays, as the Trinity College Bantams finished 11th in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Men's Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend at Wesleyan University. Trinity finished with 466.5 points, which was just 18.5 shy of 10th-place Bowdoin. Williams won the meet with 1775.5 points. In all Trinity set 11 new school records, had 24 top-24 performances, and broke 50 personal records, 63 college-career bests, and 70 season bests this weekend.
Remigino broke the College's 100-yard breaststroke record with a 10th-place time of 58.08, which also qualifies him provisionally for the NCAA Division III Championships later this month. Remigino came in fifth place in the 50-yard breaststroke a with a College-record time of 26.76 and 17th place in the 50-yard freestyle with a College-record time of 21.40. Fellow sophomore C.J. Murdoch (Gladwyne, Pa.) added a 12th-place time of 1:44.13 in the 200-yard free that eclipsed the previous Bantam mark by 3.36 seconds, a College-record time performance of 4:42.95 in an 11th-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle, and a third record-breaking time of 47.523 in the 100-yard freesyle. Sophomore Andrew Boynton (Northampton, Mass.) set tied a Bantam record in the 50-yard backstroke with a time of 25.38 in his preliminary heat.
In the relays, Remigino, Murdoch, junior Brooks Gerli (Sharon, Conn.), and sophomore Barton Keery (Weston, Mass.) set a new Trinity record in the 200-yard freestyle at 1:26.90, while Remigino, Murdoch, Boynton, and freshman Parker Tricario (Norwalk, Conn.) teamed up for a record-breaking performance of 3:36.83 in the 400-yard medley relay. Boynton, Remigino, Gerli, and senior captain Stephen Bloom (Darien, Conn.) recorded a time of 1:38.74 in the 200-yard medley relay that also broke the Bantam record, and Murdoch, Gerli, Remiginoi, and junior captain Ayaas Bhamla (Weston, Mass.) set a new Trinity record in the 400-yard freestyle relay at 49.13. In diving, freshman Ben Jardim (Montego Bay, Jamaica) finished eighth with a score of 368.45 in the three-meter event.
