RESULTS
ITHACA, N.Y. – The Ithaca College men's swimming & diving program had another strong day of competition at the 2022 Liberty League Championships on Thursday with several outstanding performances turned in.
The 200-freestyle relay showed off its speed right off the bat with their preliminary time of 1:21.80 earning them the top seed in the finals as the time as was a new championship-best. The foursome of Stanley Zaneski, Ben Young, Jack Wadsworth and James Collishaw teamed up to produce the time of 1:21.80, which was a new program record and NCAA B-cut standard. In the evening finals, they got the crowd on their feet right away by re-breaking both the Ithaca and Liberty League Championships record with a recorded time of 1:21.36.
Wadsworth continued to impress in Thursday's preliminaries as he put together the top time in the 400-yard IM. His prelim time of 3:59.95 was an NCAA B-cut time and proved to be easy to smash in the finals for the dynamic sophomore. On the final portion of the medley, he flirted with an NCAA Division III record, but settled for breaking the Kelsey Partridge Bird pool record and re-setting his championship-best mark with a time of 3:51.34. The finals time that reset the IC program record also represented an NCAA B-cut qualifying time. Wadsworth beat second-place finisher Aidan Daudier (4:04.87) by over 13 seconds.
Individually, the next event was the 100-yard butterfly that saw Drew Scheib from RIT win the finals with a recorded time of 49.36. The Bombers had a tie for sixth as Ben Young and Tim Hector both recorded times of 51.36.
The Bombers next saw a one-two finish atop of the 200-yard freestyle. Sophomore James Collishaw was once again crowned Liberty League champion, this time by recording a finals time of 1:40.51. Finishing just behind him for the second-straight day in a freestyle event was Stanley Zaneski who swam a 1:40.79. Collishaw's time of 1:40.51 tied the Liberty League Championship record for the event.
The final fireworks of the evening once again occurred in a relay race where the Bombers went head-to-head in the 400-yard medley relay with RIT. The Tigers were able to win the race with a finals time of 3:20.45, which bested the team of Tim Hector, Ethan Mossi, Santiago Ludwig and Stanley Zaneski who recorded a time of 3:23.47.
The Liberty League championships continue tomorrow with the 200-yard butterfly, 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard breaststroke, men's 1-meter diving and the 800-yard freestyle relay. Swimming preliminaries begin at 10 a.m., followed by diving preliminaries at 1 p.m. and finals for both at 6 p.m.
