Men's Swimming and Diving Caps Season at 2009 Ivy Championship

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Men's Swimming and Diving Caps Season at 2009 Ivy Championship

3/9/2009 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

PRINCETON, N.J. ? The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team left Princeton's DeNunzio Pool with a host of top-10 program times on the final day of the 2009 Ivy Championships.

Rookies Matt Stumpf (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Jack Driessen (Ridgefield, Conn.) made for some exciting action in the 200 breaststroke. In the preliminaries, Driessen posted what was then the second-fastest time in school history in 2:02.57 before Stumpf knocked a full second off his prelim time to take over second place on the list with a finals time of 2:02.33. He won the C-Final with that time.

Fellow freshman Michael Ahern (Old Westbury, N.Y) swam a season-best 1:51.42 in the prelims of the 200 backstroke, good for fifth on Dartmouth's all-time top ten list. He went on to finish 21st in the event in 1:51.92, also a top-10 time.

Sophomore Billy Haley (Morristown, N.J.) was Dartmouth's top finisher in the 1650 freestyle, finishing in 16:18.16 in a timed final. Junior Cary Stathopoulos (New York, N.Y.) swam the race in 16:28.56 for 20th and freshman Michael Randall (Dallas, Texas) finished in 16:37.59.

In the 200 fly, sophomore Jonathan Panzl (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) moved into third on Dartmouth's all-time top-10 with a time of 1:51.14. Classmate Marco Chu (Newton, Mass.) put himself seventh on that in 1:53.10.

Dartmouth's top finisher in the 100 freestyle was John Hill (Erie, Pa.) with a prelim time of 46.65.

In diving, sophomore Michael Brown (Newton, Mass.) and freshman Chris Plante (Valrico, Fla.) both made the B Final, with Brown taking 12th with 259.40 points and Plante 15th with 238.60.

Overall, Dartmouth took eighth in the championship with 426 points.