Men's Swimming and Diving | February 18, 2017

GENEVA, Ohio - The La Salle Men's Swimming and Diving team officially placed second in the 2017 Atlantic 10 Championships. The team gathered a hard earned 528 points and will hold their heads high on their return to Philadelphia with multiple new school records. Only George Washington (562.5 points) placed ahead of the Explorers. 

The Men's team has broken at least one school record every day of the A-10 Championships and that did not change on the final day. Fabian Bergman set a school record for the second day in a row as the junior now has the new top mark in the 200 backstroke. His final time of 1:43.25 bested the old top mark, which Bergman set himself in 2014, of 1:46.50. Senior swimmer Jerry Gravel finished sixth in the same event (1:46.93). 

In the 400 free relay, La Salle set yet another team record as Bergman, Cameron Fadley, Aleksandar Nikolic, and Marcus Forsgren touched the wall in 2:59.47. The time broke a 35 year old record of 3:01.11 set in 1982.

Fadley wasn't done though as he set one more school record in the 100 free, clocking in at 44.85 seconds. His time was two hundreths of a second faster than Daniel Fitzgerald's in 2013.

Senior Mattias Glenesk took silver in the long distance 1650 freestyle, finishing in 15:28.22. 

Freshman Christoff Ras was second in the 200 breast stroke. Ras clocked in at 1:59.83. Teammate Dimitrije Mladenovic touched in 2:00.57 to round out the top six.

Jakub Bartosiewicz placed fifth in the 200 fly with a final time of 1:49.29.

Dylan Yurasits and Blake Griffith finished fifth and sixth in the 3 meter dive. Yurasits, a junior, scored a 283.65 while Griffith, a freshman, was right behind him with a 275.80. In ninth, Chase Ott scored 284.30 in the consolation finals.