Men's Swimming and Diving Completes Day One of Ivy Champs

Thursday, February 26

Princeton, N.J.

11:00 AM

Dartmouth College

Day One

Men's Swimming and Diving Completes Day One of Ivy Champs

2/26/2015 9:20:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving

By: Dartmouth

PRINCETON, N.J. – The Dartmouth men's swimming and diving team opened competition at the 2015 Ivy League Championship on Thursday. The Big Green are currently sitting in eighth place with 140 points. Defending champion Princeton is already 100 points ahead of the competition with 488.

To kick things off, the Big Green finished in eighth place in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a time of 1:21.17. Composed of juniors Daniel Whitcomb and Aaron Athanas, freshman Brandon Boval and senior Ian Woon, the relay touched less than two tenths of a second behind Brown.

Whitcomb finished in 17th place in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 20.24, out-touching Tim Satterthwaite of Cornell by one one-hundredth of a second.

On the 1-meter diving board, senior Ryan Shelley finished highest for Dartmouth in ninth with a score of 283.10. Junior Brett Gillis took 11th with a 270.80, while sophomore Taylor Clough was 20th with a score of 207.30.

The Big Green wrapped up the evening with a seventh-place finish in the 400-yard medley relay, touching with a time of 3:15.99. Junior James Verhagen, senior Jay Schulte, sophomore David Harmon and freshman Misha Tovmashenko touched a tenth of a second behind Brown.

Three Dartmouth swimmers competed in the prelims of the 500-yard freestyle, with freshman Bruno Korbar finishing highest for the Green in 32nd place in 4:34.35. Junior Logan Briggs took 35th with a time of 4:36.86 and sophomore Joby Bernstein was 37th in 4:41.91.

Athanas narrowly missed out on making finals in the 200-yard IM, finishing in 28th with a 1:50.64. Freshman Henry Senkfor and sophomore Tate Ramsden followed in 31st and 34th with times of 1:51.89 and 1:53.99, respectively. In the 50 free, Boval placed 27th in 20.72, while Woon and Tovmashenko were 30th and 31st with times of 20.93 and 20.98.

Day two of the championship will commence at 11 a.m. on Friday with the swimming of the 400-yard IM.