COMPLETE RESULTS
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LEXINGTON, Ky. -- Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology won 17 events and set 10 school records in a dominant performance at the Transylvania University Swimming Invitational on Saturday and Sunday.
The men's squad scored 1,221 points to easily outdistance Wittenberg (450), Sewanee (409), Franklin (399), Transylvania (349) and John Carroll (306) for first-place honors. The women's team came home sixth overall in the meet.
Junior Sam Gould paced the effort with two diving victories and two school record performances. Gould won the one-meter (453.33 points) and three-meter (456.40 points) events for 11 dives with the highest marks in Rose-Hulman history. Junior Josh Maurer had topped the school record just moments earlier in one-meter diving with a score of 418.90 and added two runner-up diving finishes for the Fightin' Engineers.
On the women's side, Rose-Hulman recorded three event victories and two school record performances. Sophomore Ellie Hong won the 100-backstroke (58.63) and 200-backstroke (2:04.23) events, and also set a school record in the 50-freestyle (24.26) to earn runner-up honors. Junior Regen Foote won the three-meter diving competition and set a new school record with 434.30 points.
The school record performances included two different school record marks in the 200-butterfly. Freshman Patrick King won the event in the standard competition with a time of 1:50.73, before junior Orion Martin broke the school record in a time trial on Sunday with a mark of 1:50.54.
Other school record performances included senior Celeste Kline in the women's 200-butterfly with a mark of 2:19.31, freshman Ben Stone in the 400-individual medley with a mark of 4:07.60 that took runner-up honors; and the women's 800-freestyle relay team of Hong, Kline, sophomore Savannah Rice and freshman Bethany Lefeber with a time of 8:11.87.
The individual event winners were highlighted by three victories from Martin and two wins from Stone. Martin won the 50-freestyle (21.21), 100-freestyle (46.18), and the 100-butterfly (48.84). Stone captured first-place honors in the 200-individual medley (1:56.44) and the 200-backstroke (1:56.97).
Individually, junior Matthew King also took home a victory with first-place honors in the 1,650-freestyle (16:20.09).
The Fightin' Engineers swept the 1-2-3 positions in both the men's 200-individual medley and 200-butterfly events. The 200-individual medley sweep included Stone, sophomore Matt Schulstad and sophomore Nate Weber, while the 200-butterfly included Schulstad and freshman Austin Salisbury.
The five men's relay performances narrowly missed school records in the sweep. On Saturday, the 200-freestyle relay team of Martin, freshman Kirk Dickson, junior Paul Hintz and freshman Cam Gill recorded a time of 1:25.40. The 200-medley relay squad of Dickson, sophomore Pierce Bartine, King and Hintz swam a time of 1:35.74. The 800-freestyle relay squad of Martin, Dickson, Gill and Stone won in a time of 6:55.12.
On Sunday, the 400-medley relay team of Gill, Bartine, Martin and Stone won first-place honors with a time of 3:27.73. The 400-freestyle relay team capped the meet with the squad of Martin, Stone, Hintz and Dickson earning top honors with a mark of 3:07.99.
Rose-Hulman returns to action in a meet at NCAA Division I Valparaiso University on January 10.
