NCAA Division III Championships, Day 4 Finals: Denison Repeats as Men’s Champions; NYU Women Finish Off Dominant Meet
The Denison Big Red have captured the national championship in Division III men’s swimming and diving for the second consecutive year while the New York University women broke through in the final meet for star senior Kaley McIntyre.
On the final night of competition, Denison picked up two additional wins from George Goins in the 1650 freestyle and Jack Hill in the 100 free, with Hill lowering his own national record in the 100 free. Denison finished with 437 points, 48.5 ahead of runnerup NYU (388.5). Chicago placed third (353) while Kenyon (299) and Emory (275) rounded out the top five.
As for NYU, McIntyre added one final individual win in the 100 free before anchoring her team to a win in the 400 free relay. NYU finished the meet with 517 points, well ahead of Emory (433.5), Kenyon (380), Denison (304) and Williams (282.5).
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Men’s 1650 Freestyle
George Goins won his second distance freestyle title of the meet and supplied big points for a Denison team chasing a national title. Goins, previously the 500 free winner Wednesday, jumped out ahead from the beginning and never surrendered the lead as he swam to a time of 15:04.33, more than 12 seconds clear of the field.
Wash U’s Parker Chan swam a strong final two-thirds of the race to finish second in 15:16.55, and St. John’s Brayden Slavik placed third in 15:26.52. In a boost to the Denison title push, Ben Campbell also came through with a seventh-place time of 15:33.90.
Women’s 1650 Freestyle
As with the men’s event, the winner of the 500 free returned to take first in the 1650-yard event. And once again, the race was not close. Kenyon’s Molly Haag got a challenge early on from Salisbury’s Addi Wood, but during the middle portion of the race, Haag broke away to put herself in title position.
Haag touched in 16:37.04, almost nine-and-a-half seconds ahead of the rest of the field. Wood placed second in 16:46.50, and third went to Tufts’ Madeleine Dunn in 16:52.42 as she pulled away late from Denison’s Quinn Brown (16:54.30).
Men’s 100 Freestyle
Denison’s Jack Hill took down the NCAA record in prelims, and he came through for another record-breaking performance at night. Two days after winning the 200 free, Hill faced a significant challenge over four laps as Kenyon’s Djordje Dragojlovic jumped out to a four-tenth lead at the halfway point, and he needed every bit of closing speed to secure the win.
Hill finished in 42.67, two tenths under his Division III record from prelims, with Dragojlovic just five hundredths back at 47.72. Chicago’s John Butler placed third in 43.06 while Bates’ Max Cory, the defending champion and NCAA-record holder entering the day, ended up fourth in 43.06.
Women’s 100 Freestyle
In the final individual swim of her college career, Kaley McIntyre came through for one last title while putting her team more than 100 points up in the team competition. McIntyre, already the winner of the 50 and 200-yard races, swam a Division III record of 48.13 earlier this season and then a meet record of 48.26 in the morning. Her night swim was a bit slower, not that it mattered as she won in dominant fashion.
McIntyre recorded a time of 48.53 to win by 1.23 seconds. Swarthmore’s Genine Collins placed second in 49.76 while NYU made it a 1-3 finish with Maeve O’Donnell placing third in 49.91. A third NYU swimmer, Llew Ladomirak, was sixth in 50.41 as the team extended its lead.
Men’s 200 Backstroke
If NYU hoped to make a run at Denison for the men’s national title, it needed a 1-2 finish from a pair of swimmers named Teddy in the 200 back. That’s exactly what happened as Teddy Cross dominated the field with a time of 1:42.27 while Teddy McQuaid placed second in 1:43.55. This marked the first 1-2 finish by any team in a men’s event all meet.
Johns Hopkins’ Avery Clapp placed third in 1:44.53 thanks to a brilliant final 50 yards in which he overtook Chicago’s David Gutin (1:45.05).
Women’s 200 Backstroke
Emory’s Emma Lunn entered as the top seed but struggled in prelims, ending up with just the fifth-best qualifying time for the final. At night, however, she came through when it counted. Lunn ran down and surpassed Carnegie Mellon’s Savannah Xu over the final 50 yards to take the win by 0.36.
Lunn finished in 1:58.83 while Xu, who had the day’s top time at 1:58.38 in the morning, finished here in 1:59.19. Johns Hopkins’ Ken Lee took third in 1:59.40, with Tufts’ Madison Hagberg also getting under 2:00 (1:59.79). Williams’ Alden White ended up fifth in 1:58.96 after going 1:58.94 in the morning.
Men’s 200 Breaststroke
As expected, Connecticut College’s Carrick Shea came through with an utterly dominant performance in the 200 breast. Shea was the top seed by a huge margin entering the meet, and he backed that up with a mark of 1:54.45 at night to win by 2.35 seconds.
Chicago’s Ethan Taylor placed second here in 1:56.80, with Centre College’s Tiernan Moore third in 1:57.11. Connecticut College had a 1-4 finish here as Julian Carlson finished well to touch in 1:58.54 for fourth while NYU closed the team competition to within 40 points as both Conner Dean and Victor Derani swam in the championship heat.
Women’s 200 Breaststroke
Kelsey Van Eldik has finished off the breaststroke sweep, but this was not a runaway like the 100-yard event Friday evening. Instead, Van Eldik had to hold on with every ounce of energy down the stretch as Emory’s Katie Cohen split 34.08 and almost took the lead at the finish.
Van Eldik came to the wall with just enough time to spare at 2:11.70, a tenth clear of Cohen’s 2:11.80. Well clear of the rest of the field in third place was Denison’s Drue Thielking (2:12.84).
Women’s 3-Meter Diving
MIT won for the first time all meet as Fiora Beratahani captured the 3-meter diving title by less than a point. Her final score was 485.30, with Carleton’s Nina Schwab just behind with 484.35. Schwab was previously the winner on 1-meter. MIT ended up 1-3 here as Logan Yee placed third with 482.75.
Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay
Denison hoped to wrap up the meet with a flourish, but the team from the University of Chicago had other ideas. On the leadoff leg, George Costello touched first in 42.71, four hundredths off the individual national record of 42.67 established earlier in the session by Denison’s Jack Hill, and he beat Hill head-to-head by 0.25. From there, Costello’s teammates would help him add another title after three individual wins already.
Alex Schwartz and Ryan Lobo handled the middle legs, and then John Butler crushed the field with a 42.04 coming home. That helped Chicago finish in 2:53.33 to surpass the previous NCAA record of 2:53.59 set by Kenyon back in 2012.
Denison’s Hill, Cam Blevins-Mohr, Harry Parsons and Nick Hensel placed second in 2:54.76 while third place went to the Kenyon team of Teo Jaworski, Neil Abrahamson, Roman Savage and Djordje Dragojlovic in 2:55.36. Dragojlovic finished off a monster meet in the sprint events, following his win in the 50 free and second-place result in the 100 free with a 42.09 anchor leg.
Women’s 400 Freestyle Relay
As expected, NYU’s women salted away their national title in dominant fashion. The 400 free relay was effectively over by the halfway point as Lian Jeong Engle and Maeve O’Donnell put their team in the lead, leaving an easy task for Llew Ladomirak and Kaley McIntyre. O’Donnell and Ladomirak each laid down 49-second legs before McIntyre busted out a 48.06 to conclude her career. NYU touched in 3:18.66, just two tenths off Emory’s D3 record of 3:18.46 from 2018.
Hope College took second here with a team of Bella turner, Claudia Busse, Laurel Wasiniak and Greta Gridley. Hope finished in 3:20.17 after Gidley pulled away on the anchor leg with a 49.04 split, second-best in the field. Pomona-Pitzer’s team of Ellie Burkhardt, Chesna Pelka, Francesca Coppo and Nina Aballea placed third in 3:21.16.