Spring Break
Swimming: Season ends at Summit races
Both squads break Eastern records
Staff Report
Issue date: 2/23/09 Section: Sports
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The Eastern men finished with 446 points, while the Eastern women finished with a score of 399. Oakland won its 10th straight men's and women's titles.
The Eastern men finished ahead of Western Illinois, South Dakota State and Indiana-Purdue-Indianapolis, while the women finished ahead of IUPUI.
Last season, the men's team finished fourth and the women's team finished fifth.
On the first day of competition both Eastern squads broke school records in the 200-yard freestyle and 400-yard medley relays when the team of senior Joe Ethington, junior Steven King, sophomore Cody Showers and senior Elliot McGill finished third in the 200-yard freestyle relay and set an Eastern record in 1 minute, 24.08 seconds.
The team of senior Thomas Showers, sophomore Matt Scaliatine, Cody Showers, and Ethington, with a time of 3:27.01, broke the 28-year-old Eastern school record in the 400-yard medley relay. The squad finished second overall in the event. The school record was nearly two seconds faster than the previous school record, set in 1981.
Junior Lauren Zillmer, freshman Alex Green, freshman Tyler Crittenden and freshman Story Pumphrey finished second in the 200-yard freestyle relay with an Eastern record in 1:35.88. On Saturday, the group once again set an Eastern record in the 200-yard medley freestyle in 1:48.24.
Ethington earned Second Team All-Summit League honors at this meet. He also earned Second Team All-Summit League honors last season as well. Both Showers earned Second Team All-Summit League honors as well as Scaliatine.
Zillmer, Green, Crittenden and Pumphrey all earned Second Team All-Summit League honors at this meet as well.
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