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Bulldogs finish fifth at MAAC Championships
Posted: Feb 16, 2013

Bulldogs finish fifth at MAAC Championships

Results

BULLDOGS SET THREE MORE SCHOOL RECORDS, FINISH FIFTH AT MAACs

SMITHFIELD, R.I. – Graduate student Alex Kosenski's (Lavallette, N.J.) second place finish the 100 free and the second-place finish of the 400 free relay team highlight the final day of competition at the MAAC Championships in Buffalo, N.Y., for the Bryant University men's swimming and diving team.

Competing in the MAAC for the first time ever, the Bulldogs finished fifth out of ten teams with 385 points. Rider captured the team title with 576 points. Marist (559.5), Canisius (534.5) and Saint Peter's (498.5) rounded out the top four teams. Loyola (380), Fairfield (239), Manhattan (226), Iona (196) and Niagara (186.5) finished 6-10, rounding out the field.

Bryant set three more school records on the final day of competition, running its total to 13 over the three-day championship meet. The first record came from senior Steven Sinclair (Middleton, Mass.) in the 200 back preliminaries. He finished in the top eight with a school-record time of 1:53.59, eventually finishing eighth with a finals time of 1:54.49. Graham Beck (Danvers, Mass.) broke another one of his own school records, this time in the 200 breast. Beck finished fourth in the event with a new record time of 2:03.25, four seconds faster than his previous record set at last year's ECAC Championships. The final school record came from the 400 free relay team in the final event of the meet. The quartet of Joshua Bjornberg (Wallingford, Conn.), Nicholas Karadimas (New Milford, Conn.), John Lawson (Bernardsville, N.J.) and Kosenski set the new school record with a time of 3:04.90, finishing second. It also marked the second-straight year in which the Bulldogs set a school record in all five relay events.

Swimming in his final individual event as a Bulldog, Kosenski earned a silver medal in the 100 free, finishing with a time of 45.44, four one-hundredths of a second behind the winner. Karadimas finished fourth in the event (45.99) and Lawson finished 13th (47.42). Bjornberg joined Beck in the finals of the 200 breast, finishing ninth with a time of 2:06.44. His time also broke the previous school record. The first diver in school history, Conor Makepeace (Wallingford, Conn.) finished 10th in the 1 meter dive with a score of 226.50. Brendan Miller-Radest (Chatham, N.J.) rounded out Bryant's finalists, finishing 15th in the 1650 free (16:46.41).