Men’s Swimming & Diving Topped by Yale, 164-136

Saturday, November 9

New Haven, CT

1:00 PM

Brown University

136

164

Yale

Men’s Swimming & Diving Topped by Yale, 164-136

11/9/2019 8:49:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown men's swimming & diving team was defeated by Yale, 164-136, to open the 2019-20 season on Saturday at Payne Whitney Gym. The Bears won seven out of 16 events on the day and five different swimmers recorded first place finishes.

"Amazing effort by the team today on the road against a very talented and very deep Yale team," said head coach Kevin Norman. "We won seven of 16 events including both relays. And to win the last two events of the meet, the 200 IM and 400 free relay, shows how tough and resilient this group is. Our seniors did a fantastic job leading today throughout a long, competitive meet. I'm so proud of this group."

Brown opened the meet by winning the 200 medley relay, with senior Joon Sung (Los Angeles, Calif.), freshman Vincent Huang (League City, Texas), sophomore I.I. Qiao (Naperville, Ill.) and senior Alex Smilenov (Katy, Texas) swimming to a time of 1:29.10.

The Bears went 2-3-4 in the first individual event, the 1000 freestyle, as sophomore Nico Ortega (Caracas, Venezuela/Westport, Conn.) took second in 9:40.11 and was followed by freshman Lukas Scheidl (Mendham, N.J.) (9:40.47) and freshman Kabir Randhawa (Dix Hills, N.Y.) (9:45.05).

Junior Michael Lincoln (Palo Alto, Calif.) followed with a first-place finish in the 200 freestyle (1:37.97). The junior later took second in the 500 freestyle (4:35.90).

Senior Coley Sullivan (Louisville, Ky.) won the 100 backstroke in 50.32 while sophomore Billy Knaul (Sudbury, Mass.) took third (51.37). In the 200 of the event, Sullivan claimed second (1:50.19) and sophomore Reid Arwood (Asheville, N.C.) took third (1:51.60).

Huang won the 100 breaststroke in 56.55 while sophomore Ben Hayes (River Hills, Wis.) won the 200 (2:03.02). Hayes later turned in a third-place finish in the 200 butterfly (1:50.57). The 100 butterfly saw Qiao come in second (49.22) and Sung place third (49.58).

Senior Cody Cline (Wellington, Fla.) came in second in the 50 freestyle (20.52) and was narrowly out-touched for first (20.47). Cline also took second in the 100 freestyle (45.42).

On the boards, sophomore Trevor Labuda (Los Altos, Calif.) placed third in the 1M with a score of 291.15 and claimed fourth in the 3M (299.63).

The Bears claimed the top two spots in the 200 IM with junior Alex Park (Dix Hills, N.Y.) winning in 1:51.66 and Hayes coming in second (1:53.84).

Brown capped off the day by winning the 400 freestyle relay, with Cline, Sung, Sullivan and Smilenov swimming to a time of 2:59.76.

The Bears next compete at Penn on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 12:00 p.m.