ROCHESTER, Minn. –
Hans Anderson produced the Knights' top results at the Rochester Invite, a three-day competition the saw the Carleton College men's swimming & diving team face programs from the NCAA D-I, II, and III levels. Anderson earned second place during the 3-meter diving competition with a score of 411.30. On the 1-meter board, he was fifth with a score of 420.20 in the finals.
The other teams at the meet were UW-Green Bay (NCAA D-I), St. Cloud State (No. 13 in D-II), Minnesota State Moorhead (D-II), and NCAA Division III teams from UW-Eau Claire (receiving votes in the national top-25), UW-La Crosse, Saint John's, and St. Olaf.
"I'm very proud of how both our teams performed at this meet," said Carleton head coach
Andy Clark. "The championship format of the meet with prelims and finals was what we were wanting to have our teams experience at this point in the season. We didn't rest for this meet, and with competition that was rested and extremely deep, we knew our teams would have to work even harder to get second chances. Our teams definitely rose to the challenge and produced a ton of season-best performances."
In addition to Anderson's performance in the diving events, the Knights had several other top-15 individual results:
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Sam Glaubitz was 13th in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:54.66
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Nicholas Chang and
Ian Scott finished 14th and 15th, respectively, in the 200-yard IM with times of 2:00.90 and 2:01.16
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Jackson Rankin notched a 10th-place result in 100-yard butterfly when he touched the wall at 51.97
• The 400-yard IM saw Chang,
Alex Lee, and
John Rosseel finished in 10th, 13th, and 14th places, respectively. They covered the distance in 4:19.32, 4:25.34, and 4:25.41
• With a time of 1:46.38,
Josh Wu finished 12th during the 200-yard freestyle
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Ethan Tun won the 'B' final 100-yard backstroke as he finished ninth at 52.58
• Chang and Scott were ninth and 12th in the 200-yard backstroke as they touched the wall at 1:57.18 and 2:00.02, respectively.
• Tun earned 10th place in the 200-yard breaststroke after reaching the wall at 2:09.61
• Wu was 15th during the 100-yard IM competition with a time of 54.92
• Rankin and
Aiden Johnson took eighth and 10th, respectively, in the 200-yard butterfly as they clocked times of 1:59.59 (1:56.27 in prelims) and 1:58.27 in the finals.
• Rosseel was 9th in the 1650-yard freestyle at 17:23.33, while
Byron Jia took 11th at 17:30.59
Carleton's top relay showing came in the 800-yard freestyle relay as Scott, Wu, Tun, and Glaubitz combined on time of 7:06.64, which was good for 10th place.
Up Next for the Knights
Carleton will embark on its annual Winter Break training trip. This year the Knights are headed to Puerto Rico.
