Williams Ninth, Amherst 14th After Day One at NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships
OXFORD, Ohio - Williams, the 2008 NESCAC Men's Swimming & Diving Champions, currently sits in ninth place with 45 points after Thursday's day one of the 2008 NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships hosted by the College of Wooster at the the University of Miami’s (Ohio) Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center.
Amherst sits in 14th with 31 points, while Middlebury is 26th with 12 points. Rounding out the NESCAC teams competing at the meet are Tufts in 32nd place and Connecticut College in 33rd.
Kenyon amassed 201 points, ahead of second-place Johns Hopkins University’s 110 points. The Lords’ national championship streak is the longest in any sport in NCAA Division I, II or III history. Denison University sits in third at 105 points, followed by Emory University in fourth with 75, and St. Olaf College in fifth with 68.
Kai Robinson of Amherst was the lone NESCAC competitor to win an individual title, as he came away a champion in the one-meter diving event with 499.75 points, while University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh junior Jacob Chadderdon finished second with 465.90 points.
Action in the three-day event, hosted by the College of Wooster, continues on Friday, March 21 with preliminaries scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and finals promptly at 6:30 p.m.
