THE BASICS:
 
- Meet: 2024 NEWMAC Swimming and Diving Championship
 
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (Springfield, Mass.)
 
- Results: 2nd of 7 (89
 
- The Lead: The 10th-ranked MIT men's swimming and diving team sits in second place after day one of the 2024 NEWMAC Swimming and Diving Championships. The Engineers 800-free relay team broke the NEWMAC Meet and Open record with their win.
 
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
 
800-Yard Free Relay

• Senior Tobe Obochi (Highland Park, Ill.), senior Jaden Luo (Austin, Texas), sophomore Eugene Jiang (Baton Rouge, La.), and senior Brian Li (Austin, Texas) captured first place with a time of 6:36.07, just over three seconds ahead of runner-up U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
   
• Obochi led off the relay with a time of 1:38.25 and Luo had the fastest split of the relay with a time of 1:37.87.
   
• The Engineers broke the NEWMAC Meet record by .53 seconds, the NEWMAC Open record by .72 seconds, earned an NCAA B cut, and posted a 2023 invited time.
   
• This was the second time in three years Obochi, Luo, and Li were members of a record-breaking 800 free relay.
   
• The time is currently the eighth-fastest in the country.

 
3-Meter Diving

• First year Jack Tucker (Naples, Fla.) finished in fourth with a score of 397.30.

UP NEXT:
 
- Day two of the NEWMAC Championship will begin on Friday, Feb. 23 with prelims at 10:00 a.m., followed by the finals at 6:00 p.m. Scheduled events include: the 200-free relay, 500-free, 200-IM, 50-free, and the 400-medley relay.
 
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