No. 7 MIT Swim and Dive Falls to No. 1 NYU and No. 14 Williams

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – In a meet featuring three top 15 teams, the No. 7 MIT men's swimming and diving team fell to No. 1 NYU and No. 14 Williams at the Samuelson-Muir Pool in Williamstown, Mass. on Friday afternoon.

THE BASICS:
Scores:
No. 1 NYU 206, No. 7 MIT 88
No. 14 Williams 200, No. 7 MIT 94

HOW IT HAPPENED:

400 Medley Relay

The Engineers team of junior Zack West (Kailua, Hawaii), first year Grant Hu (Allen, Texas), first year Ben Wu (New Canaan, Conn.), and junior Thomas Wu (Cedar Park, Texas) opened the event with a third-place finish in the 400-Medley Relay. MIT completed the event in 3:26.25. NYU clocked in with the fastest time of 3:24.11.

1650 Free

Sophomore John Tietjen (Leawood, Kan.) finished in sixth with a time of 16:43.11 and first year Gidean Karp (The Woodlands, Texas) took eighth with a time of 17:49.68.

200 Free

Hu came just short of a win with his time of 1:41.23. Oliver Schalet (Horseheads, N.Y.) of Williams won with a time of 1:41.11. First year Kelson Cantrell (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and sophomore Jason Wang (Brentwood, Tenn.) finished fourth and fifth in the event.

100 Back

West took fourth with a time of 52.42.

100 Breast

Senior Roderick Huang (Cupertino, Calif.) clocked in at 59.88 for a seventh-place finish.

200 Fly

Wang won the event for MIT with a time of 1:53.04 just beating out Ryan Nunez (Merrick, N.Y.) of Williams who finished in 1:53.18.

50 Free

Thomas Wu took tenth overall with a time of 22.09.

3-Meter Dive

Sophomore Jack Tucker (Naples, Fla.) finished with a score of 230.50 for seventh.

1-Meter Dive

Tucker took sixth with a mark of 232.95.

100 Free

Hu finished in 47.09 for sixth overall, just .09 seconds behind Shyam Soundararajan (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) of NYU.

200 Back

West finished in fifth with a time of 1:55.25.

200 Breast

Wang and Huang finished 3-4 in the event. Wang finished with a time of 2:07.76 while Huang finished in 2:09.06.

500 Free

Tietjen finished in fourth with a time of 4:46.72.

100 Fly

Ben Wu took second to Barrett Heritage (Mountain View, Calif.) of Williams with a time of 50.50. Heritage clocked in with a time of 50.24 for the win.

400 IM

Hu completed the event in 4:00.88 for a second-place finish. Huang took fifth with a time of 4:10.94.

200 Free Relay

Thomas Wu, Ben Wu, West and first year Anthony Koh (Dresher, Pa.) finished in third with a time of 1:25.26.

UP NEXT:

The Engineers are back in action next week against Tufts. The Engineer divers will host Tufts on Thursday, January 23 at 7:00 PM. The swimmers will head to Tufts on Saturday, January 25 at 1:00 PM.

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