Thursday Results
Updated Records
Friday Prelims Heat Sheet
CANTON, Ohio – Now halfway through the Great Midwest/Mountain East Conference Swimming & Diving Championships, scoring for 10 men’s teams is starting to round into focus at the C.T. Branin Natatorium from Thursday’s action.
Findlay extended its lead as a team with an impressive all-around display in individual and relay races on day two. The Great Midwest is 1-2-3 in the team scoring with the Oilers totaling 775 points, Tiffin securing 567 points and Malone earning 504 points.
Between Findlay and Tiffin, all 10 event wins in the meet to date are all featured from the top two scoring programs.
On Thursday, it was the Tim Stollings show as the Findlay freshman wowed onlookers and fans with his efforts that brought his event win total up to four. None of those first-place finishes were more impressive than his 100 butterfly showcase as he became the first student-athlete to break a pool record in three years.
Not only did Stollings shatter the overall combined conference record and meet record, but he now ranks No. 1 in all of Division II, officially passing Drury’s Pasha Semochkin (46.54).
Stollings was clocked at a blistering 46.53 in the final, passing previous record holder and UF standout Janko Radmanovic in both the prelim/final attempts in the conference record books.
After breaking the meet record in the 50 freestyle on Wednesday, he contributed to more meet records in relays, swimming in both the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relays. The Oilers broke the 400 medley relay record by almost five seconds.
What’s also scary – Stollings has yet to even compete in the 100 backstroke, an event that he currently holds the conference record in as well. He did that feat at the Calvin Winter Invitational in December.
Tiffin celebrated a handful of impressive accomplishments while contributing to a trio of new meet records courtesy of senior Jonah Sumfleth, sophomore Miguel Angel Garcia Arroyo and junior diver Jordan Wright.
Wright kicked off the nighttime finals session with a score over 446 in the 1-meter height. Sumfleth broke the combined conference meet record in the 200 freestyle while Garcia Arroyo won his second event of the meet with a 400 IM time under four minutes.
Garcia Arroyo captured the 200 IM title by a hare on Wednesday over teammate Sumfleth while Christoph Hohenfeld delivered TU’s first event win in the 1,000 freestyle.
At this point in the meet, seven meet records have fallen and two overall conference records have been reset.