Day One Finals Results | Day One Preliminary Results
ITHACA, N.Y. – Union College men's swimming and diving senior
Matt Kenvin broke a 27-year old program record in the 200 IM with a NCAA B-cut qualifying time of 1:50.07 to highlight day one of the 2024 Liberty League Championships held at Ithaca College.
Union sits in sixth place with 120 points after the first day of competition.
Kenvin broke the record of 1:50.88 set by Kevin Makarowski '97 HOF '08 in 1997. The senior becomes Union's first Liberty League Champion since Davis Harrington won the 1-meter diving in 2019 and the first swimmer to claim the top spot since Owen Perks '20 won the 200 backstroke in 2018. Kenvin set a new personal best in the preliminary session with the top time of 1:50.99, but dropped almost a full second in the finals to edge out the second-place finisher by .02 seconds.
Senior
Bill Megas set a new personal best in the 200 IM in the morning session with a program top-10 time of 1:56.13. Megas went on to finish sixth in the B final of the 200 IM.
The 200-yard medley relay team first-year
Winston Lee, Kenvin, sophomore
Drew Hill, and senior
Zach Matthews raced to a sixth-place finish with a season-best time of 1:34.95. Union's second relay team of senior
Andrew Boyd, junior
James Javier Jr., junior
Walter Kraus, and senior
Andrew Barton picked up key points in the B final with a time of 1:38.06.
Hill took the top spot in the 50 free C final with a personal best time of 21.52 and junior
Walter Kraus also competed in the C final and finished with a personal best time of 22.15.
Senior
Zack Panlilio and junior
Tony Piacentini both set new personal best times in the C final of the 500 free. Panlilio took almost six seconds off his preliminary time to finish in 4:51.86 while Piacentini dropped almost five seconds from the morning session to finish in 4:53.79.
Union is back in action for day two of the Liberty League Championships at Ithaca College tomorrow with the first event beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the Kelsey Partridge Bird Natatorium.
