Grinnell men get off to great start at Pioneer Classic Friday

Day 1 Results

GRINNELL, Iowa - A trio of runner-up finishes capped a big first day of action for the Grinnell College men's swimming and diving team at the Pioneer Classic Friday.

Swimming the first major meet at Russell K. Osgood Pool in nearly two years, the Pioneers got second-place efforts from the 200-yard freestyle and 400 medley relay teams, as well as Sam Heller '23 in 3-meter diving.

Grinnell rolled up 574 points on the opening day and trailed only nationally-ranked Gustavus Adolphus by a mere 17 points in the eight-team field.

Luke Klein-Collins '23 and Ethan Yuen '24 swam on both relay teams for Grinnell. Chris Zhang '22 and Josh Sutton '24 completed the 200 freestyle squad, which had a time of 1 minutes, 27.64 seconds, and Kevin Fitzgerald '25 and Enrique Valero Ying '23 rounded out the 400 medley team that finished in 3:33.08. Heller got second in diving with a score of 345.75.

Placing fourth for Grinnell were Valero Ying in the 200 individual medley (1:58.64) and Harry Nelson '25 in the 500 freestyle (4:55.70).

Grinnell had a big showing in the 200 individual medley besides Valero Ying, as Fitzgerald, Bert Wang '23 and Yuen were fifth, sixth and seventh in 1:59.46, 2:00.32 and 2:00.40, respectively.

Sutton and Klein-Collins were seventh and eighth in the 50 freestyle in 22.20 and 22.31. In the 500 freestyle, Cooper Malone '25 placed eighth in 5:01.14.

The meet continues at 9 a.m. Saturday.

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Players Mentioned

Sam Heller: Junior

Luke Klein-Collins: Junior

Josh Sutton: Sophomore

Enrique Valero Ying: Junior

Bert Wang: Junior

Ethan Yuen: Sophomore

Chris Zhang: Senior

Kevin Fitzgerald: First-Year

Cooper Malone: First-Year

Harry Nelson: First-Year

Players Mentioned

Sam Heller
: Junior

Luke Klein-Collins
: Junior

Josh Sutton
: Sophomore

Enrique Valero Ying
: Junior

Bert Wang
: Junior

Ethan Yuen
: Sophomore

Chris Zhang
: Senior

Kevin Fitzgerald
: First-Year

Cooper Malone
: First-Year

Harry Nelson
: First-Year