Men’s Swimming & Diving Bests Columbia, 186-114

Saturday, January 18

Providence, RI

12:00 PM

Brown University

186

114

Columbia

Men’s Swimming & Diving Bests Columbia, 186-114

1/18/2020 6:15:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Brown men's swimming & diving team defeated Columbia, 186-114, on Saturday at the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center. The Bears won a total of 12 events with sophomore Trevor Labuda (Los Altos, Calif.) breaking the program record in the 3M, a mark that stood since 1989.

"This was a special win for our program, we haven't beaten Columbia since 2010," said head coach Kevin Norman. "As expected, the meet started with an extremely fast and competitive 200 Medley Relay and we were able to hold off a very talented Columbia relay. The team looked great this morning warming up, very focused, and we had a feeling this would be a big day for us, but that relay definitely set the tone."

The day opened with senior Joon Sung (Los Angeles, Calif.), senior Coley Sullivan (Louisville, Ky.), sophomore I.I. Qiao (Naperville, Ill.) and senior Alex Smilenov (Katy, Texas) winning the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:28.91.

Brown took the top-three spots in the 1000 freestyle with junior Michael Lincoln (Palo Alto, Calif.) winning the event in 9:11.43 and followed by freshmen Lukas Scheidl (Mendham, N.J.) (9:24.38) and Kabir Randhawa (Dix Hills, N.Y.) (9:38.19).

Smilenov placed second in the 200 freestyle with a time of 1:40.00 while sophomore Lucas Hess (Salt Lake City, Utah) claimed fifth (1:42.04).

Sung registered a victory in the 100 backstroke in 49.10 with Sullivan coming in third (49.74) and sophomore Billy Knaul (Sudbury, Mass.) taking fifth (51.59). Sullivan took first in the 200 of the event in 1:48.92 while sophomore Reid Arwood (Asheville, N.C.) claimed third (1:49.85).

The Bears went 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke with freshman Vincent Huang (League City, Texas) posting the win in 56.01 and sophomore Ben Hayes (River Hills, Wis.) taking second (56.63) while senior Toshiki Takahashi (Tokyo, Japan) came in fifth (58.08). Huang later took second in the 200 breaststroke (2:01.38) with Hayes (2:02.45, third) and Takahashi (2:06.46, fifth) following.

Brown took the top-two spots again in the 200 butterfly, with junior Riley Pestorius (Bridgewater, N.J.) winning in 1:49.19 and Qiao coming in second in 1:49.43. Junior Alex Park (Dix Hills, N.Y.) also added points in the event in fifth (1:52.35). Qiao later won the 100 butterfly in 49.31 with senior Jagger Stephens (Agana Heights, Hagatna, Guam) taking fifth (50.74).

Cline (20.35) and Smilenov (20.67) went back-to-back in the 50 freestyle for second and third, respectively. Cline later won the 100 freestyle in 44.35 with Sung taking third (44.82).

In diving, senior William McNelis (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) took first in the 1M with a score of 321.60 and Labuda behind him in second (301.50). Labuda then won the 3M with a score of 354, breaking the school record score of 351.05 set by Charlie Chester in 1989 while McNelis came in third (284.85).

"We were also tremendous on the boards this afternoon," said Norman. "Will NcNelis won the 1 Meter and qualified for NCAA Zones while Trevor Labuda won the 3 meter breaking a 31 year-old school record."

Lincoln recorded his second victory of the day in the 500 freestyle, touching the wall in 4:34.94 while Scheidl (4:35.88, second) and freshman Tyler Lu (Pleasanton, Calif.) (4:36.24, third) followed.

Park led Brown in the 200 IM with a second-place showing (1:51.44) while Hayes (1:51.86) and Huang (1:53.26) finished 3-4.

Cline, Sung, Sullivan and Smilenov capped off the strong day by winning the 400 freestyle in 2:58.34.

"Sending our senior class out with such a big win in their last home meet meant a lot to the team, and to see an all-senior 400 freestyle relay of Cody Cline, Joon Sung, Coley Sullivan and Alex Smilenov put a stamp on the day with a win was perfect," said Norman.

The Bears next travel to Cornell on Friday, Jan. 24 and Saturday, Jan. 25. Diving will take place on Friday at 5:30 p.m. while swimming will follow on Saturday at 11:00 a.m.