Spring Break
Away from home
The team that continues to tread
by Sean Petterson
Staff writer
Sports | 5/19/09
Posted online at 1:46 AM EST on 5/15/09
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After the Linsey pool was closed Oct. 28 when the air-handling system that heats and ventilates the pool stopped working, the team was forced to adjust.
"We didn't have necessarily exactly the same schedule every week. It would depend on when we got pool times and … on what pool we were going to," captain Rachel Nadas '09 said. "It was a challenge, but we were all very committed and wanted to swim, … and we did what we could to make it happen."
Despite the Linsey pool's closure, this year, the men's and women's teams were able to produce one of the most successful seasons in school history.
Though the men's team had a dual-meet record of 4-5, it broke eight school records and sent one swimmer, Marc Eder '12, to the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships for the first time since the Judges sent Matt Christian '05 in 2005. The team placed 16th out of 23 teams at the Eastern College Athletic Conference Championships, the second-highest finish for Division III teams at the meet.
The women's team had a 6-3 dual-meet record and finished 13th out of 26 teams at the ECAC Championships, the best finish out of all Division III teams at the meet. The team broke an impressive 12 school records this season, including all five of the program's relay event marks.
Both teams won the tri-meet Michael Zarilli Memorial Invitational early in the season as well.
"I would say that 95 percent of the goals we wanted to achieve, we achieved," head coach James Zotz said.
A lack of depth plagued the men's team dual-meet record. The team had no divers, which automatically put them 32 points behind its opponent in every meet. Still, the Judges rode James Liu '10, Bobby Morse '09, Aaron Bennett '11 and Eder to a successful season.
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