Bulls finish second overall as head coach Andy
Bashor is named MAC Coach of the Year
YPSILANTI, MI - The University at Buffalo
men’s swimming and diving team wrapped up the 2010 MAC
Championship tonight, with freshman Matt
Schwippert
taking away the MAC Championship in the 200 backstroke, breaking a
school and MAC record with a time of 1:45.23. The Bulls finished the
meet in second place out of seven teams. Head coach Andy Bashor was
named MAC Swimming Coach of the Year for the second year in a row,
after the Bulls set 13 new records this weekend alone.
Matt Schwippert
Distance specialist Connor
Vander Zalm turned in a ninth-place finish in the 1650 freestyle,
swimming to a season-best time of 16:01.03. Freshman Zach
Rice
wasn’t far behind, as he took 11th in a season-best time of
16:04.76. Schwippert won the MAC Championship in the 200 backstroke,
breaking a school record and a MAC record in a time of 1:45.23. The
record breaking swim was Schwippert’s fifth of the weekend.
Senior Zach
Ruske finished third in the 200 backstroke, in a season-best time
of 1:48.16, while fellow senior Andrew
Tamchyna took sixth in a time of 1:49.33, as the Bulls walked away
with 49 points in that event alone.
In the 100 freestyle, Jared
Heine and Matt
Hogan tied for second place with a time of 44.95. In the
preliminary event, Heine broke the school record in a time 44.67,
bettering the 18-year old record of 45.17, set in 1992. Simon
Proudfoot finished seventh in the event, swimming a time of 45.81. Chad
Miller took the 10th-place spot in a season-best time of 45.65.
Freshman Josh
Meints shattered the school record in the 200 breaststroke, taking
fourth in a time of 2:02.60, nearly four seconds off the old record set
in 2002. Chris
Berloth picked up fourth-place points in the 200 butterfly,
finishing in a lifetime-best time of 1:50.19.
Josh Meints
After essentially rewriting the record books this weekend, the Bulls
capped off the meet with a second-place finish and school record in the
400 freestyle relay, as the team of Hogan, Proudfoot, Miller and Heine
swam a time of 2:59.60, breaking the record from 1992 by more than two
seconds.
In the three-meter diving event, Kenny
Rhoades finished sixth with a score of 327.95, while Colin
Patrican took 14th with a score of 260.95.
Buffalo finished the meet in second place with 613.5 points. Eastern
Michigan took the 2010 team title, finishing the weekend with 773
points. Behind the Bulls in third place was Missouri State (587),
followed by Miami (574.5) in fourth, and Southern Illinois (478), Ball
State (231.5) and Evansville (136.5), finishing in fifth, sixth and
seventh, respectively.
