Results

DECORAH, Iowa – It was a successful start to the 2017-18 season for the Grinnell College men's swimming and diving team Saturday afternoon as the Pioneers knocked off Luther College 199-92.
 
Two Pioneers won three events each. Houfu Yan '20 was first in the 100- and 200-yard backstrokes in 54.10 and 2:00.87, respectively, and was also on the winning 200 medley relay team that finished in 1:40.71.
 
Kevin Donahue '21 was first in the 100 breaststroke in 1:01.88 and 200 individual medley in 2:03.50. He also was on the winning 200 freestyle relay team that swam 1:31.39.
 
Rounding out the 200 medley relay team were Will Lindell '19, Paul Cover '21 and Elisha Tibatemwa '21, while the 200 freestyle relay included Tibatemwa, Mitch Sevier '21 and Joshua Tibatemwa '19.
 
Other winners for Grinnell were Lindell in the 200 breaststroke (2:16.47), Cover in the 100 butterfly (54.09), Josh Cottle '18 in the 1000 freestyle (10:39.93), Marty Toney '20 in the 200 butterfly (2:05.55) and Jonathan Rebelsky '20 in one-meter diving (168.40).
 
Individual runners-up for Grinnell were Kyle Dixon-Anderson '21 in the 1000 freestyle (10:55.91), Sevier in the 200 freestyle (1:50.51) and 50 freestyle (22.84), Jackson Thompson '20 in the 100 backstroke (56.54) and 200 backstroke (2:04.79), Lindell in the 100 breaststroke (1:02.53) and 200 individual medley (2:06.01), Cover in the 200 butterfly (2:06.17), Albert Ford '20 in the 100 freestyle (50.12), Joshua Tibatemwa in the 200 breaststroke (2:26.30), Cottle in the 500 freestyle (5:08.23) and Michael Lee '18 in three-meter diving (151.20).
 
Grinnell also had the runner-up 200 medley relay team with Thompson, Joshua Tibatemwa, Toney and Donahue (1:41.66).
 
The Pioneers return to action next Friday night against Coe College in Cedar Rapids.