2010 SCAC Championship Results
Devin Wahl and Jordan DeGayner broke their own school records on the first day of swimming events at the 2010 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships.
Wahl trimmed .82 seconds off his own Colorado College record while finishing seventh in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:47.70. He finished just .06 seconds behind Trinity's J.J. Lubinski in the battle for sixth place.
DeGayner, who took third place in the 200 individual medley twice, lowered his record in the event twice. He shaved .53 seconds off his mark with a time of 1:55.68 in the preliminaries, and then lowered it again by .37 seconds in the finals with a time of 1:55.31.
“We started things off with some great swims in the 500 in the morning, and then Devin came back at finals and broke the school record,” head coach Anne Goodman James said. “That was quickly followed by Jordan DeGayner breaking the IM record in both prelims, and then again in finals. He had the fastest freestyle split in the field (25.5) by almost two seconds.”
Wahl and DeGayner teamed up with Jeff Nadel and Tom Grossinger to take third place in the 400 medley relay by touching the wall in 3:32.73. CC also got an 11th-place finish from its 'B' team comprised of William Bowers, Jonathan Dorsey, Jack Ludwig and Flynn McGuire.
Grossinger also earned a 10th-place finish in the 200 IM, finishing the event with a mark of 1:57.70 in the consolation final that was faster than the seventh- and eighth-place finishers.
In the first event of the day, McGuire, Ludwig, Dorsey and Nadel teamed up for a seventh-place finish in the 200 free relay with a season-best time of 1:30.42.
“This meet is even faster than last year, with more depth in each event,” Goodman James said. “It is exciting to see fast swims continue, even without the technical suits. While I think they had a tremendous influence on recent performances, I am impressed to see that our athletes have found another way to go fast.”
The Tigers finished the day fourth in the nine-team field with 140 points, just eight behind Centre College. DePauw is on top of the men's standings with 329, followed by Trinity with 306.
The four-day meet will continue on Friday with six swimming events and the men's 3-meter diving. Preliminaries start at 10:30 a.m. CT, while the finals begin at 6:30 p.m. at the University of Louisville's Ralph R. Wright Natatorium.
