Another day of dominance for Grinnell men's swimming and diving team at MWC Championships

Fitzgerald sets multiple records, earns NCAA "B" cut

Results

GRINNELL, Iowa - Kevin Fitzgerald '25, and the Grinnell College men's swimming and diving team as a whole, continue to dominate the Midwest Conference Championships at Russell K. Osgood Pool.

The Pioneers collected five event victories Saturday, including an NCAA "B" cut and multiple broken records by Fitzgerald in the 400-yard individual medley. He won the race in 3 minutes, 54.44 seconds to eclipse the "B" cut by more than 4 seconds while also beating the time selected for last year's NCAA Championships by nearly 2 seconds.

He beat his own school, conference and pool records of 3:56.85, set earlier this year, and the MWC Championships mark of 3:57.43 set in 2015 by Sam Freedberg of Lake Forest College. Fitzgerald now has 20 MWC victories in his career.

Grinnell also won the 200 medley relay with Rommin Adl '26, Keely Yeager '27, Evan Feilmeyer '28 and Aidan Donovan '28. Their time of 1:31.31 is second all-time at Grinnell.

The Pioneers' other champs were Yeager in the 100 breaststroke (56.99, second all-time at GC), Feilmeyer in the 200 freestyle (1:39.79) and Adl in the 100 backstroke (49.33, second all-time), moving his career MWC title count to 16.

The Pioneers have 646.5 points after Saturday's action, well ahead of runner-up Lake Forest's total of 412.

Runners-up for Grinnell were Antoni Staszkiewicz '27 in the 400 individual medley (4:07.75) and Cadel Saszik '28 in the 100 backstroke (50.18, sixth all-time). Noah Tsukuda '27 was third in the 200 freestyle in 1:42.16 and Benke Grobler '27 had the same placing in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 58.10, 11th all-time at GC.

Taking fourth were Yeager in the 100 butterfly (51.39), Chris Zhou '27 in the 100 breaststroke (58.11) and Sam Larsen '25 in the 100 backstroke (50.78). Adam Feilmeyer '25 was fifth in the 100 backstroke in 51.46, which ranks seventh at Grinnell.

Gavin Stiglitz '28 and Cooper Malone '25 were sixth in the 100 butterfly and 100 breaststroke with times of 51.63 and 59.37, respectively. Stiglitz was seventh in the 100 backstroke in 52.76, while eighth place went to Connor Smith '25 in the 400 individual medley (4:21.96) and Jack Cereone '28 in the 100 breaststroke (59.58).

Also for Grinnell, Donovan swam the 100 butterfly consolation in 52.25, which ranks 15th all-time. Smith's time of 59.15 in the 100 breaststroke consolation ranks 15th, as well.

The meet concludes on Sunday.

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Players Mentioned

Rommin Adl: Junior

Adam Feilmeyer: Senior

Kevin Fitzgerald: Senior

Benke Grobler: Sophomore

Sam Larsen: Senior

Cooper Malone: Senior

Connor Smith: Senior

Antoni Staszkiewicz: Sophomore

Noah Tsukuda: Sophomore

Keely Yeager: Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Rommin Adl
: Junior

Adam Feilmeyer
: Senior

Kevin Fitzgerald
: Senior

Benke Grobler
: Sophomore

Sam Larsen
: Senior

Cooper Malone
: Senior

Connor Smith
: Senior

Antoni Staszkiewicz
: Sophomore

Noah Tsukuda
: Sophomore

Keely Yeager
: Sophomore