Men's Swimming

Edited: Jan. 31, 2010

Weekly Recap (with links)

The 26th North Coast Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Championships are set for Feb. 11-13, at Branin Natatorium in Canton, Ohio. Allegheny is this year’s host. Denison is the defending champion in both the men’s and women’s competition.

ALLEGHENY freshman Brandon Intrieri (Erie, PA/McDowell) won the 200 freestyle (1:48.20) and the 100 free (48.60) in his team’s victory over Baldwin-Wallace. The next day, in a loss to Edinboro, Intrieri won the 50 free (21.97) and 100 butterfly (52.63) and swam the anchor leg on the first-place 200 free relay. Junior Megan Knox (Pittsburgh, PA/Fox Chapel) paced the Gator women with victories in the 1000 free (10:59.60) and 100 free (56.00) in a dual meet win over B-W. She came back the next day against Edinboro to win the 200 free (1:59.61) and 500 free (5:22.35).

Three swimmers were double winners and part of a first-place relay in DENISON’S men’s team’s defeat of Carnegie Mellon. Jake Lewing (Yardley, PA/Pennsbury) won both breaststroke events. Robert Barry (Richmond, VA/St. Christopher’s School) took the 100 (50.89) and 200 (1:53.72) backstroke, while Mike Barczak (Beverly Hills, MI/Brother Rice) touched first in the 50 (21.84) and 100 (47.99) freestyles. The trio joined Matt Edgin (Columbus, OH/Upper Arlington) to win the 200 medley relay (1:35.37). Freshman Alyssa Swanson (Aurora, CO/Regis Jesuit) led the women’s team. She posted an NCAA automatic qualifying time in the 200 free (1:52.16) and a “B” cut time in the 500 free (5:00.11), just eight one hundreths shy of the “A” cut time. She was also part of the first place 400 free relay in Denison’s win over Carnegie Mellon.

In their final dual of 2009-10, HIRAM fell to Washington & Jefferson in men’s and women’s competition. Freshman diver Sydney Kispert-Bostick (Frazer, MI/Frazer) won both women’s diving events. Senior Gillian Millwood (Kingston, Jamaica/Campion College) won the 100 free (59.62) and was part of the first-place 200 free relay. Leading the men was junior Travis Subda (Spring, TX/Klein Colins), who won the 100 breast (1:03.53) and 200 breast (2:20.19). He was also part of the first-place 200 free relay that finished in1:31.59.

KENYON had 10 different individuals win events in the Ladies’ defeat of Wittenberg. Senior Mika Redinger (Dublin, OH/Jerome) won the 500 free (5:19.18), was part of the second-place 200 medley relay and was second in the 100 breast (1:09.44). The Lords were led by double winner Michael Mpitsos (Newport, OR/Newport). He swam a leg on the first-place 200 medley relay and touched first in the 100 back (50.79).

WITTENBERG senior diver Matt Erenpreiss (Columbus, OH/Centennial) set Kenyon Athletic Center and Tiger school records with 310.80 points en route to winning the three-meter competition. It was also his second NCAA “B” standard performance of the season. The Tigers fell to the Lords, 163-124. Junior diver Megan Shubitowski (Columbus, OH/Watterson) paced the women’s team as she won both diving competitions.

WOOSTER senior Eric Babbitt (Rancho Santa Margarit, CA/Santa Margarita Catholic) was a double winner as the Fighting Scots fell to Grove City, 172-122. He won the 500 free (4:52.55) and 1000 free (10:09.69), and took second in the 200 fly (1:59.41). The Wooster women were paced by senior Allie Kibler-Campbell (Benton Harbor, MI/St. Joseph). She won the 100 breast in 1:09.97, and was part of the second-place 200 medley relay. The women’s squad fell to Grove City, 159-136, in its final dual meet of the season.