Men’s Swimming & Diving 400 Freestyle Relay Team Sets Pool Record as Bears Defeat Cornell, 171.5-126.5

Saturday, January 25

Ithaca, NY

11:00 AM

Brown University

171.5

126.5

Cornell

Men’s Swimming & Diving 400 Freestyle Relay Team Sets Pool Record as Bears Defeat Cornell, 171.5-126.5

1/25/2020 8:16:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

Results

ITHACA, N.Y. – The Brown men's swimming & diving team closed out the regular season with a 171.5-126.5 victory over Cornell on Saturday at Teagle Pool. The win was capped off by the 400 freestyle relay team breaking the pool record in the final event.

"Today's win on the road was a great way to cap off the dual meet season and carry momentum to championships," said head coach Kevin Norman. "Cornell is a tough place to race, and it being their Senior Day, we knew there would be a lot of emotion and that we would have to be ready. This team has proven all year it's a tough group and this afternoon was a perfect example of that. Cornell kept coming at us, but we did a great job of responding. The 1-2-3 finish in the 200 breaststroke with Toshiki Takahashi, Ben Hayes and Vincent Huang was a big turning point in the meet."

Diving opened up the meet against the Big Red on Friday with sophomore Trevor Labuda (Los Altos, Calif.) leading the Bears with a victory in the 3M (331.58) and a second-place finish in the 1M (301.72). Senior William McNelis (Grosse Pointe Woods, Mich.) also finished third in both the 1M (223.05) and the 3M (278.63).

Senior Joon Sung (Los Angeles, Calif.), senior Coley Sullivan (Louisville, Ky.), sophomore I.I. Qiao (Naperville, Ill.) and senior Alex Smilenov (Katy, Texas) started competition on Saturday by winning the 200 medley relay in 1:30.44.

Freshman Kabir Randhawa (Dix Hills, N.Y.) followed by taking first in the 1000 freestyle in 9:33.57 while freshman Lukas Scheidl (Mendham, N.J.) (9:37.63) and sophomore Nico Ortega (Caracas, Venezuela/Westport, Conn.) (9:45.21) went 3-4.

Junior Michael Lincoln (Palo Alto, Calif.) won the 200 freestyle in 1:39.59 and freshman Tyler Lu (Pleasanton, Calif.) claimed third in 1:41.58.

Sung led the Bears in the 100 backstroke with a time of 49.33 for second-place while Sullivan came in fourth (50.51). Sophomore Reid Arwood (Asheville, N.C.) later took second in the 200 of the backstroke with Sullivan (1:50.60) and freshman Colin MacKellar (Southbury, Conn.) (1:50.84) in third and fourth, respectively.

Freshman Vincent Huang (League City, Texas) tied for first in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 56.16 as senior Toshiki Takahashi (Tokyo, Japan) (56.47) and sophomore Ben Hayes (River Hills, Wis.) (56.80) took third and fourth, respectively. Takahashi later recorded a victory in the 200 of the event in 2:01.20 with Hayes (2:02.07) and Huang (2:02.09) going 2-3.

Brown was paced by junior Riley Pestorius (Bridgewater, N.J.) finishing second in the 200 butterfly (1:49.66) while Qiao followed in fifth (1:51.76). Sung took second in the 100 butterfly in 49.39 with Qiao (49.96, fourth) and senior Jagger Stephens (Agana Heights, Hagatna, Guam) (50.07, fifth) also contributing points.

A victory was turned in by senior Cody Cline (Wellington, Fla.) in the 50 freestyle, touching the wall in 20.38. Smilenov also took third in the event in 20.69 and later placed second in the 100 (45.83) while sophomore Lucas Hess (Salt Lake City, Utah) came in fifth (46.29).

The Bears took the top two spots in the 500 freestyle with Lu winning in 4:36.71 and Lincoln coming in second (4:37.81). Scheidl also added a fourth-place finish (4:39.49).

Hayes won the last individual event of the day, the 200 IM, in 1:51.66 with junior Alex Park (Dix Hills, N.Y.) (1:52.81) and Huang (1:53.34) also going 3-4.

Sung, Lincoln, Sullivan and Smilenov closed the meet by breaking the Teagle Pool record in the 400 freestyle relay with a time of 2:58.58 for first place.

"I couldn't be happier for our seniors picking up a win in their last dual meet in a Brown cap," said Norman. "They've led this team all year and people have fed off of their enthusiasm. It was also special to see the 400 freestyle relay of Joon Sung, Michael Lincoln, Coley Sullivan and Alex Smilenov put a stamp on the win breaking the Teagle Hall Pool record."

The Bears will next compete at the Ivy League Championships, Wednesday, Feb. 26 through Saturday, Feb. 29, hosted by Harvard.