Men's Swimming & Diving Earns All-Academic Honors; Gears for ECAC Championships
NEW YORK - The Columbia men's swimming and diving team has proven to be one of the top academic programs in the country this fall being named a College Swimming Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America Team for the 2012 fall semester.
To qualify for Scholar All-America Team accolades, a team must earn a 3.00 or above cumulative GPA for the evaluated semester. With a team GPA of 3.34, the Lions were among the top six of the 65 total teams to receive this honor.
Columbia will open post dual-meet season competition this weekend as they travel to Cambridge, Mass. for the 2013 ECAC Swimming & Diving Championships. The three-day meet will be held at Harvard's Blodgett Pool and will begin on Friday, March 1 with preliminary heats at 10 a.m. Both Friday and Saturday will begin with 10 a.m. preliminaries, and then conclude with finals sessions at 6 p.m. On Sunday, the preliminary heats will start at 9 a.m. and the finals will follow at 4 p.m.
ECAC COLUMBIA PARTICIPANTS:
Friday - March 1
| 500 Free |
| - Joe Buetler, Sam Dunkle, Tyler Mattingly |
| 200 IM |
| -Patrick Dougherty, John Santoro, Ronald Chen, Mitchell Veith, Matthew Swallow |
| 50 Free |
| - Alex Ngan, Daniel Tan, Matthew Swallow |
| 200 Free Relay |
| 400 Medley Relay |
Saturday - March 2
| 400 IM |
| - Ronald Chen, Sam Dunkle, Joe Beutler, John Santoro |
| 100 Fly |
| - Andrew Wood, Mitchell Veith, Alex Ngan, Richard Fineman |
| 200 Free |
| - Daniel Tan, John Santoro, Nathan Yueh, Patrick Dougherty, Richard Fineman |
| 100 Breast |
| - Matthew Swallow, Andrew Wood, Mitchell Veith, John Santoro |
| 100 Back |
| - Patrick Dougherty, Alex Ngan |
| 200 Medley Relay |
| 800 Free Relay |
Sunday - March 3
| 200 Back |
| - Patrick Dougherty, Joe Beutler |
| 100 Free |
| - Alex Ngan, Daniel Tan, Tyler Mattingly, Nathan Yueh, Patrick Dougherty, Joe Beutler |
| 200 Breast |
| - John Santoro, Andrew Wood, Matthew Swallow, Mitchell Veith, Ronald Chen |
| 200 Fly |
| - Ronald Chen, Richard Fineman |
| 400 Free Relay |
