Tartan Men Place Fifth at UAA Championships; Bamforth UAA Diving Champion

(ROCHESTER, N.Y.) - The Carnegie Mellon University men's swimming and diving team placed fifth at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Swimming and Diving Championships hosted by the University of Rochester in Rochester, N.Y. Freshman Gabriel Bamforth (Cambridge, Mass./CRLS) was crowned a UAA Champion in 1-meter diving while head diving coach Alicia Gorman was named UAA Men's Diving Coach of the Year.

Bamforth tallied 496.50 points in the finals of the 1-meter diving event to become the first Carnegie Mellon male diver to be crowned champion since Matt Kuhn in 2009.

Sophomore Josh Taekman (Chapel Hill, N.C./Chapel Hill) finished the 1,650-yard freestyle in 16:31.69 to place ninth overall while junior Dustin Ferzacca (Beverly, Mass./Manchester Essex) was 11th in 16:35.88. Freshman Jack Lance (Lititz, Pa./Warwick) was 12th in 16:37.40, as freshman Sean Anderson (Gibsonia, Pa./Pine-Richland) touched 13th in 16:43.73.

Senior Steven Geier (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) placed 14th in the 200-yard backstroke, touching the wall in 1:55.81, as freshman Jack Dangremond (Colorado Springs, Colo./Air Academy) was 13th in the 100-yard freestyle in 46.50.

Junior Brian Jay (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga) and freshman Winston Chu (Warren, N.J./Saint Peter's Prep) swam in the finals of the 200-yard breaststroke finishing seventh and eighth, respectively. Jay touched in 2:05.45 while Chu finished in 2:07.59, reaching the finals heat with a career-best performance of 2:05.48 in the preliminaries.

Freshman Mitchell Riek (Sunland, Calif./Bishop Alemany) paced the Tartans in the 200-yard butterfly, placing eighth overall in an NCAA provisional qualifying time of 1:53.21.

The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Dangremond, Geier, junior Sivan Mehta (Scarsdale, N.Y./Scarsdale) and Jay closed the meet with a sixth-place finish in a season-best time of 3:06.59.