Tartans Place Fourth at Total Performance Invitational

(PITTSBURGH, Pa.) - The Carnegie Mellon University men's swimming and diving team closed competition at the Kenyon College Total Performance Invitational on Saturday, December 5. The team finished fourth, ahead of Division I Davidson College and DePauw University on the final night.

Freshman diver Gabriel Bamforth (Cambridge, Mass./CRLS) won the 1-meter diving event in school-record setting fashion, tallying 507.45 points after 11 dives. With the score, he meets the NCAA qualifying standard for the second time and will be competing at the regional diving meet with a chance to make the NCAA Championships.

Freshman Mitchell Riek (Sunland, Calif./Bishop Alemany) shave eight seconds off his season-best in the 500-yard freestyle when he touched 15th in 4:35.49.

Senior Steven Geier (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) finished 14th in the 200-yard backstroke, touching in a season-best 1:54.41, while junior Sivan Mehta (Scarsdale, N.Y./Scarsdale) placed 12th in the 100-yard butterfly in 50.98 after touching in 50.68 for his season-best in the preliminaries.

Junior Brian Jay (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga) was the top Tartan to finish the 200-yard breaststroke, touching the wall in a provisional qualifying time and career-best 2:04.32 to place 12th.

Freshman Jack Dangremond (Colorado Springs, Colo./Air Academy) placed 14th in the 100-yard freestyle after completing the event in 46.66. His season-best time came in the preliminaries when he touched in 46.55.

Senior Matthew Nielsen (Ashburn, Va./Briar Woods) swam the Tartans top time in the 200-yard IM, finishing the B final in a season-best 1:56.79.

The 400-yard freestyle relay closed the meet and the team of Mehta, Jay, Geier, and Dangremond finished 10th in 3:07.85.

The Tartans will next face competition in the pool on Saturday, January 16 at Westminster College against the Titans and SUNY Geneseo.