GC men's swimming and diving team halfway home to another Grinnell Invite title

Results

GRINNELL, Iowa - The home men's squad entered the 2022 Grinnell Invitational with a nine-year hold on the team title, and by all indications that string will reach 10.

Grinnell College piled up 965 points Friday at Russell K. Osgood Pool to comfortably take command in the team standings, leading runner-up Nebraska Wesleyan University by more than 500.

Kevin Fitzgerald '25 and Ethan Yuen '24 each were triple winners for Grinnell. Both swam on the first-place 400-yard medley relay team that finished in 3:34.09. Fitzgerald was also on the winning 800 freestyle relay team that went 7:22.24 and took first in the 500 freestyle in 4:50.36, a time that ranks 19th in program history.

Yuen added a win in the 200 individual medley in 1:57.49, which is ninth all-time at Grinnell, and joined Josh Sutton '24, Luke Klein-Collins '23 and Adam Feilmeyer '25 to win the 200 freestyle relay in 1:28.37.

Joining Fitzgerald in the 800 freestyle relay were Jacob Lester '25, Chris Zhang '22 and Bert Wang '23. Wang also was first in the 200 breaststroke in 2:10.48. Klein-Collins and Enrique Valero-Ying '23 completed the 400 medley relay team.

Valero Ying added runner-up finishes in the 200 individual medley (1:59.65) and 200 breaststroke (2:12.82), while Klein-Collins was second in the 100 backstroke (54.50) and 100 freestyle (48.48). His backstroke time ranks 15th in program history.

Other runners-up were Sam Heller '23 in 1-meter diving (358.25), Yuen in the 200 butterfly (1:56.85) and Fitzgerald in the 100 individual medley (55.50). Yuen's time is seventh all-time at Grinnell.

Placing third were Harry Nelson '25 in the 500 freestyle (5:01.42), Zhang in the 100 freestyle (48.59) and Sutton in the 100 individual medley (58.45), while fourth place went to Wang in the 200 individual medley (2:00.73), Ben Johnson '23 in the 500 freestyle (5:01.52), Feilmeyer in the 100 backstroke and 100 freestyle (55.72 and 49.05, respectively) and Theo Mott '24 in the 200 butterfly (2:02.43).

Diego Coelho Rodrigues '25 added fifth-place finishes in the 200 individual medley in 2:00.91 and 200 butterfly in 2:03.19. Sutton was fifth in the 100 freestyle in 49.40.

The meet continues at 9 a.m. Saturday.

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Players Mentioned

Sam Heller: Junior

Ben Johnson: Junior

Luke Klein-Collins: Junior

Theo Mott: Sophomore

Josh Sutton: Sophomore

Bert Wang: Junior

Ethan Yuen: Sophomore

Chris Zhang: Senior

Diego Rodrigues: First-Year

Adam Feilmeyer: First-Year

Players Mentioned

Sam Heller
: Junior

Ben Johnson
: Junior

Luke Klein-Collins
: Junior

Theo Mott
: Sophomore

Josh Sutton
: Sophomore

Bert Wang
: Junior

Ethan Yuen
: Sophomore

Chris Zhang
: Senior

Diego Rodrigues
: First-Year

Adam Feilmeyer
: First-Year