GREENSBORO, N.C. – On the ultimate day of the 2023 NCAA Division III Championships, the College of Chicago swimming & diving groups compiled 10 extra All-American awards and completed with their most factors scored ever on the nationwide meet.
The Maroon males captured third place within the standings with 318 factors for his or her highest workforce placement ever. The 2022 squad beforehand held that distinction with a seventh-place exhibiting. On the conclusion of the meet, Head Coach Jason Weber was named the School Swimming & Diving Coaches Affiliation of America (CSCAA) Males’s Swimming Coach of the 12 months.
The UChicago girls claimed seventh place within the workforce standings with 266.5 factors scored. It marked their second-best workforce placement ever and their third straight within the high 10.
Emily Xu was the highest particular person finisher on the day, as she took fourth within the girls’s 100-yard freestyle in 50.33 to seize All-American standing. Karen Zhao was a Second Workforce All-American within the 100 free by taking eleventh in a time of 51.23.
Elisabella Forest set a brand new college file within the girls’s 200-yard backstroke prelims as she touched the wall in 1:59.83. Within the night finals, Forest’s fifth-place exhibiting in 2:00.64 garnered First Workforce All-America accolades.
The ladies’s 400-yard freestyle relay closed issues out with an All-American exhibiting as properly. The quartet of Xu, Annabel Olivo, Filippa Kolokotsa and Zhao completed fifth in 3:24.59.
Within the ultimate occasion of the night time, the boys’s 400-yard freestyle relay bolted to a brand new college file time (2:55.79) and snagged second place within the race. The All-American relay featured Garrett Clasen, Sebastien Vernhes, Kyle Garcia and Arthur Kiselnikov. It marked the primary time the Maroon males had all 5 of their relays place within the high eight at NCAAs.
UChicago produced a pair of All-People within the males’s three-meter dive. Logan Sherwin was eleventh with 450.80 factors and Andrew Chen was fifteenth with 418.95 factors.
Three further Maroons snagged Second Workforce All-American honors. John Paul Phillips was 14th within the 200-yard backstroke, Marcell Milo-Sidlo was fifteenth within the 1,650-yard freestyle and Kiselnikov was sixteenth within the 100-yard freestyle.
UChicago Males’s Prime Finishers 400-yard Freestyle Relay – 2nd, 2:55.79 (Garrett Clasen, Sebastien Vernhes, Kyle Garcia, Arthur Kiselnikov)Three-meter Dive – Logan Sherwin (eleventh, 450.80); Andrew Chen (fifteenth, 418.95)200-yard Backstroke – John Paul Phillips (14th, 1:48.31)1,650-yard Freestyle – Marcell Milo-Sidlo (fifteenth, 15:47.87)100-yard Freestyle – Arthur Kiselnikov (sixteenth, 45.23); Hudson Tritter (twenty second, 45.32)200-yard Breaststroke – Kyle Garcia (seventeenth, 2:01.33)
UChicago Ladies’s Prime Finishers100-yard Freestyle – Emily Xu (4th, 50.33); Karen Zhao (eleventh, 51.23)200-yard Backstroke – Elisabella Forest (fifth, 2:00.64); Ioanna Georgopoulou (nineteenth, 2:03.22)400-yard Freestyle Relay – fifth, 3:24.59 (Emily Xu, Annabel Olivo, Filippa Kolokotsa, Karen Zhao)1,650-yard Freestyle – Samantha Bertschi (twenty first, 17:24.79)200-yard Breaststroke – Alicia Soosai (twenty third, 2:20.60)
