Men’s Swimming & Diving Topped at Harvard, 203.5-96.5

Wednesday, January 15

Cambridge, MA

1:00 PM

Brown University

96.5

203.5

Harvard

Men’s Swimming & Diving Topped at Harvard, 203.5-96.5

1/15/2020 5:22:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Brown men's swimming & diving team was defeated by Harvard, 203.5-96.5 on Wednesday at Blodgett Pool. Senior Joon Sung (Los Angeles, Calif.) and junior Michael Lincoln (Palo Alto, Calif.) led the Bears with wins in the 100 and 200 freestyle, respectively.

"The team swam very well today after an extremely intense two week stretch of training," said head coach Kevin Norman. "Harvard is a talented team and we showed a lot of heart with the way we raced on the road. Ending the meet with a win in the 400 free relay is a testament to how tough this team is."

The Bears opened the meet with a second-place finish in the 200 medley relay with Sung, senior Coley Sullivan (Louisville, Ky.), sophomore I.I. Qiao (Naperville, Ill.) and senior Alex Smilenov (Katy, Texas) swimming to a time of 1:29.91.

Freshman Tyler Lu (Pleasanton, Calif.) was the top finisher in the 1000 freestyle in third with a time of 9:41.92 while sophomore Nico Ortega (Caracas, Venezuela/Westport, Conn.) (9:44.56, fourth) and freshman Kabir Randhawa (Dix Hills, N.Y.) (9:44.88, fifth) also recorded points.

A first-place finish was next turned in by Lincoln in the 200 freestyle (1:39.40) with sophomore Lucas Hess (Salt Lake City, Utah) grabbing third (1:41.15).

Senior Cody Cline (Wellington, Fla.) and Sullivan went 2-3 in the 100 backstroke with times of 50.72 and 50.97, respectively, while sophomore Billy Knaul (Sudbury, Mass.) followed in fifth (51.66). Knaul came in fourth in the 200 of the event (1:52.93) with junior Alex Park (Dix Hills, N.Y.) following (1:54.14, fifth).

Sophomore Ben Hayes (River Hills, Wis.) finished third in both the 100 backstroke (57.27) and the 200 IM (1:52.64) while sophomore Reid Arwood (Asheville, N.C.) took fifth (58.74) in the 100 backstroke.

Qiao led the Bears in the 200 butterfly in third place (1:51.60) as freshman Vincent Huang (League City, Texas) (1:51.41, fourth) and freshman Lukas Scheidl (Mendham, N.J.) (1:52.44, fifth) trailed. Qiao later took third again in the 100 of the event in 49.54.

Sung earned second place in the 50 freestyle with a time of 20.79 and came back later to take first in the 100 freestyle (45.37), tying with Harvard's Mahlon Reihman. Cline came in third in the 100 freestyle (45.56) while Smilenov claimed fourth in the 50 freestyle (20.96).

Diving saw senior William McNelis (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) earn a second-place finish in the 1M with a score of 278.33 and sophomore Trevor Labuda (Los Altos, Calif.) coming in fourth (258.98). In the 3M it was Labuda who took second (326.55) while McNelis took fifth (292.65).

Huang led Brown in the 200 breaststroke in third with a time of 2:05.26 with senior Toshiki Takahashi (Tokyo, Japan) taking fifth (2:07.91).

Lincoln took third in the 500 freestyle in 4:34.03 with Scheidl coming in fifth (4:35.42).

Cline, Sung, Lincoln and Smilenov closed the meet by winning the 400 freestyle relay in 2:59.87.

The Bears next host Columbia for their final home meet of the regular season and Senior Day on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 12:00 p.m.