Tartans Earn More Awards, Place Eighth at NCAA Championships

(GREENSBORO, N.C.) — The Carnegie Mellon University men's swimming and diving team finished competition at the 2024 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday, March 23 with another All-American performance by freshman Brayden Morford and placed eighth with 161 team points. The eighth-place finish marks the best finish for the program since 2005 when the team was sixth.

Top Performances

• Freshman Brayden Morford continued his first national meet with a third All-America performance, placing seventh in the 200-yard backstroke in a time of 1:48.05.
• The 400-yard freestyle relay of Morford, grad student Aleksander Tarczynski, sophomore DJ Lloyd, and sophomore Arnav Deshpande closed the meet with a ninth-place performance in a time of 2:58.82 to earn 18 points for the team standings.
• Freshman Miles Haraldsson just missed an All-America Second Team honor when he placed 17th in the 1,650-yard freestyle in a time of 15:59.53.
• Lloyd and Deshpande both swam in the 100-yard freestyle finishing 33rd and 35th in times of 45.59 and 45.66, respectively.
• Junior Christian Lanuza put together a school-record performance in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:00.71 that placed him 20th in his last swim of the meet.

All-America Awards for the Meet

• Brayden Morford – 100-yard backstroke 2nd place, 200-yard IM 3rd place, 200-yard backstroke 7th place, 200-yard freestyle relay 5th place
• Arnav Deshpande – 200-yard medley relay 6th place, 200-yard freestyle relay 5th place
• Aaron Lee – 200-yard medley relay 6th place
• Aleksander Tarczynski – 200-yard medley relay 6th place, 200-yard freestyle relay 5th place
• DJ Lloyd – 200-yard medley relay 6th place, 200-yard freestyle relay5th place

All-America Second Team Awards for the Meet

• DJ Lloyd – 50-yard freestyle 16th place, 400-yard freestyle 9th place
• Brayden Morford – 400-yard medley relay 9th place, 400-yard freestyle relay 9th place, 800-yard freestyle relay 10th place
• Arnav Deshpande – 100-yard backstroke 12th place, 400-yard medley relay 9th place, 400-yard freestyle relay 9th place
• Christian Lanuza – 100-yard breaststroke 16th place, 400-yard medley relay 9th place
• Aleksander Tarczynski – 200-yard butterfly 12th place, 400-yard medley relay 9th place, 400-yard freestyle relay 9th place
• Santiago Gomez – 800-yard freestyle relay 10th place
• Willem Goedecke – 800-yard freestyle relay 10th place
• Richard Chung – 800-yard freestyle relay 10th place