Men's Swimming and Diving 12/6/2024 9:54:00 PM Ted Schultz

Records galore fall as Grinnell men enjoy successful first day at Pioneer Classic

Kevin Fitzgerald leads the charge for GC

Results

GRINNELL, Iowa - Grinnell College's men's swimming and diving team attacked the record book, and then some, in taking a commanding lead at its own Pioneer Classic Friday.

Kevin Fitzgerald '25 led the charge with two individual school and meet records, and a pair of relay meet marks. He established school, meet and pool marks in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:49.46 and 100 butterfly in 49.16. The previous school mark in the IM was 1:50.91 by Hall of Famer Michael Brus in 2014, while the old fly record was 49.31 set last year by Ethan Yuen. Fitzgerald's IM time was also an NCAA "B" cut. Yuen had the old fly meet record of 49.37 from last year and the previous 200 IM record was 1:54.07, set by Garrett Cadotte of Nebraska Wesleyan University in 2016.

Grinnell also set a meet mark in the 800 freestyle relay with Evan Feilmeyer '28, Noah Tsukuda '27, Cadel Saszik '28 and Fitzgerald. Their time of 6:53.41, which ranks third in program history, broke the previous meet record of 6:59.04 by Grinnell last year.

Saszik, Chris Zhou '27, Feilmeyer and Fitzgerald won the 400 medley relay in 3:22.49, breaking last year's meet record of 3:23.53 by Grinnell. That time ranks second in program history.

Saszik had the other meet record while winning the 200 backstroke in 1:50.56, breaking the mark of 1:52.74 by Grinnell's Sean Colson in 2022. Saszik's time ranks fourth in program history.

Other champs were Tsukuda in the 500 freestyle (4:42.05), Keely Yeager ' 27 in the 200 breaststroke (2:07.22, eighth all-time) and the 200 freestyle relay team of Evan Feilmeyer, Adam Feilmeyer '25, Fitzgerald and Aidan Donovan '28 (1:24.30, third all-time).

Grinnell has 1,484 points after the first day, well ahead of runner-up Morningside University's total of 641.

Runners-up for Grinnell were Antoni Staszkiewicz '27 in the 500 freestyle (4:48.21), Evan Feilmeyer in the 100 butterfly (50.46, third all-time), Benke Grobler '27 in the 200 breaststroke (2:08.87) and 200 individual medley (1:58.45), Sam Larsen '25 in the 200 backstroke (1:51.00, fifth all-time) and Adam Feilmeyer in the 100 freestyle (45.98, fourth all-time).

Placing third were Jacob Lester '25 in the 500 freestyle (4:50.73), Cooper Malone '25 in the 200 breaststroke (2:10.79), Gavin Stiglitz '28 in the 200 backstroke (1:58.62), Evan Feilmeyer in the 100 freestyle (46.48, sixth all-time), Staszkiewicz in the 200 individual medley (1:58.46) and Hayden Devorsetz '28 in 3-meter diving (343.25).

Stiglitz and Larsen were fourth in the 100 butterfly and 200 individual medley with times of 51.59 and 1:58.60, respectively. Stiglitz's time is ninth in GC history.

Placing fifth were John Kafumbe '28 in the 500 freestyle (4:51.83), Jafar Jarrar '27 in the 200 breaststroke (2:13.67), Alex Petroff '25 in the 200 backstroke (2:06.96), Donovan in the 100 freestyle (46.85, eighth all-time) and Yeager in the 200 individual medley (2:00.34).

The meet continues Saturday.

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Players Mentioned

Ethan Yuen: Senior

Adam Feilmeyer: Senior

Kevin Fitzgerald: Senior

Benke Grobler: Sophomore

Jafar Jarrar: Sophomore

Sam Larsen: Senior

Jacob Lester: Senior

Cooper Malone: Senior

Alex Petroff: Senior

Antoni Staszkiewicz: Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Ethan Yuen
: Senior

Adam Feilmeyer
: Senior

Kevin Fitzgerald
: Senior

Benke Grobler
: Sophomore

Jafar Jarrar
: Sophomore

Sam Larsen
: Senior

Jacob Lester
: Senior

Cooper Malone
: Senior

Alex Petroff
: Senior

Antoni Staszkiewicz
: Sophomore