In what was by far the best session of the weekend, Wabash Swimming finished the weekend in style.

Coach Dunaway left the DePauw Invite pumped up with all the great performances. Alex Carr started things off with an 8 second drop in his 400 IM winning the consols! From there the team jumped on the momentum he created and raced with passion the rest of the night. Matt Routh and Jordan Extine went 1, 2 in the consols of the 50 breaking down barriers and dominating the heat. Pat Laughlin swam to a fourth place finish in the 100 back, followed by Steve Zajac dropping over a second and scoring 16th place in an event that is brand new to him! Next, Nick Molby and Routh jumped in for the 200 free and dropped huge time both touching the wall in 3rd (1:53 and 1:48 respectively)! Then the "United Breaststrokers of America" (UBA) took over in the 200 breast! Kyle O'Keefe dropped over a second to take third in the finals - and then the UBA stole the show in the consols with a 2,3,4,5 showing! I'm sure a sea of Red W caps charging down the pool together was a sight to see! Finally the 1650 showed off the training the team has been doing and the "no fear" attitude our swimmers have! Paul Wilson, Kyle O'Keefe, and John Kasey all posted lifetime bests (in December!) going 4, 5,5. Yup!, after 17 minutes, 54 seconds, and 92 hundredths they were completely tied when they touched the wall. How awesome is that? Way to go, guys!

Over in Gambier Ohio - at the brand new Kenyon Athletic Center and Nike Invite- our boys continued to take advantage of the great facility and amazing competition! The best way to look at a team at a big invite of individual swims, is to look for the team component - the relays. So far, every relay we have swam has been faster than our conference meet last year... and the streak continued Saturday night! Caldwell (24.8) Dent (26.8) Weaver (22.2), and BCS (21.2) went a 1:35.5 in the 200 Medley - over 1 second faster than the 2006 NCAC Championships! And after a night of amazing swims, our 400 Free Relay (Towne, BCS, Weaver, and Blackwell) was exactly .01 faster than last year's meet! In between those great two relays were a ton of inspiring swims!

• Caldwell and Pete Hewitt go 1,2 in the consols of the 200 back! (both dropping under 2:00!)

• Elijah Sanders got a second chance at the 500 Free when someone scratched - and he took full advantage of the last minute opportunity dropping over 7 seconds off his seed time, and missing a school record by 1.4 seconds! (4:46!)

• Our Nike Invite UBA's (Graham and Dent) represented the group by both going 2:12's and racing like champs!

• Blackwell jumped in and tied for second in the consols of a very fast 100 free heat going the second fastest time of his life!

• Other notable swims were Craig Vetor's 500 free dropping under 5:00 for the first time in his career. Petro popping an LTB in the 200 Back (1:57.8) and 100 Free! And Rockefeller and Fozkos swimming their best swims of the weekend when the pressure was on the most - in the final relay!

It was an awesome weekend of swimming!

(Pictured Above is Jordan Extine†charging forward in the breaststroke, and Peter Hewitt getting the job done in the 200 back!)