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Men's swimming and diving finishes in last place at Big Ten championships

March 1, 2015

“I think we competed pretty hard. It’s a difficult conference,” head coach Matt Gianiodis said. “It wasn’t the goal to get tenth.”

It was the fifth consecutive year that the Spartans finished in 10th place in the Big Ten Championships. Michigan won the conference championships for the fifth consecutive year and 39th time in program history.

The Spartans began the tournament with a ninth place finish in the 200-medley relay. Freshman Alex Trompke, sophomore Alec Kandt, junior Jacob Moore and freshman Lachie McLeish made up the relay team.

Moore was able to have some success individually, recording MSU’s fastest 100 freestyle time this season.

“Jake had a good meet, we were hoping he would go a little quicker,” Gianiodis said.

Moore’s 45.15 finish time was good for 39th place.

The Spartans were only able to muster 14 points in Thursday’s events despite recording five top ten times in school history, friday was much of the same for MSU, who scored 19 points total to bring their score to 65 points overall.

Kandt was a hundredth of a second away from tying the school record in the qualifying round of the 100 breaststroke.

“I thought (Alex) did a really good job,” Gianiodis said.

Kandt finished the preliminary round in 13th place with a time of 53.78. Kandt’s time was the second fastest in program history. MSU had two of their fastest times in the 200 backstroke preliminary rounds on Saturday.

Sophomore Adam Marsh finished in 19th place with a final time of 1:45.25. Marsh’s time was good for second best in school history, sophomore Sam Hiller wasn’t far behind, finishing in 22nd place with a final time of 1:45.93, which is third fastest in program history.

The divers will be next up for the MSU swimming and diving team.

The NCAA Zone Diving Championships will start on March 12 and run through March 14 in Columbus, Ohio.

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