Thurs. MIAC Swimming: Relay sets record

February 17, 2005
Thursday Night Session/Finals
St. Thomas broke a two-week-old school record and eclipsed a preliminary cutoff time for the national meet with a fourth-place finish in the 200 free relay Thursday night at the MIAC Swimming & Diving Championships at the University of Minnesota's Aquatic Center.

Freshmen T.J. Hardy, Tim Mullee, Kevin Mullee and senior Dave Linn clocked 1:25.10. That helped the Toms move into fourth place after one day of the three-day competition. St. Olaf (213) leads Gustavus (210) atop the scoring followed by St. John's (172), Carleton (96), St. Thomas (78), Macalester (61), Hamline (56) and St. Mary's (46).

UST also placed fifth in the 400 medley relay in 3:35.17 with Linn, Dave Turnbloom, Kevin Mullee and Hardy.

In the 50 free finals, Hardy was sixth in 21.47 but Linn was disqualified. In the 50 free consolation, Kevin Mullee took 12th in 21.90.

In the 200 IM consolation finals, Tim Mullee was 15th in 2:06.26.

Thursday Prelims
Both Tommies and a St. Olaf swimmer all clocked 21.51, .01 behind the sixth-place finisher. The top eight in each event advance to the finals, and the ninth through 16th times go to the consolation finals. Freshman Kevin Mullee was 16th in 22.01 and reached the consolation finals.

Freshman Tim Mullee was 16th in the 200 IM prelims in 2:06.12 and will compete in the consolation finals.

Four Toms competed in the 500 freestyle but missed advancing -- Matt Des Marais was 17th in 5:06.82; Hank Kemp was 19th in 5:19.32; Paul Stahler was 20th in 5:31.93; and Adam Groebner was 24th.

Also on Thursday night, finals will be held in the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relay for men and women.

see MIAC meet homepage here with links to each session