Swimming & Diving

Geneseo men capture 2016 SUNYAC swimming and diving title

Posted: Feb 20, 2016

SATURDAY RESULTS
OVERALL RESULTS

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Geneseo men captured its 23rd State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) title with 977 team points, Saturday night at the Burt Flickinger Center at Erie Community College.

The top awards of the meet were announced Saturday night. Genseo's Andy Schunk was honored with the James Fulton award, given to a male senior for academic and athletic excellence. James Fulton was a long time Swimming Coach at the College at Brockport and was instrumental in developing the SUNYAC Swimming Program.

Buffalo State's Connor Mergler was named the Swimmer of the Meet with three record breaking SUNYAC crowns in the 50, 200 and 100 Freestyle races.

Fredonia's Arron Carlson won Diver of the Meet with a title in the 3-meter dive and a second place in the 1-meter he totaled the most points overall in the meet.

Geneseo coach, Paul Dotterweich was selected as the men's Coach of the Year while Geneseo's diving coach, Shawn Austin was named the Diving Coach of the Year. These awards are voted on by all conference coaches.

Genenseo's Kevin Schaub swam the 200 backstroke in 1:51.23, a new conference and meet record bettering the record set in 2013 by Oneonta's Alex Miller (1:51.62).

For the third time this week, Buffalo State's Connor Mergler broke records touching the wall in 44.74 in his preliminary race to top the 100 freestyle conference and meet record set in 2010 by Dan Evans (Cortland).

New Paltz's 400 freestyle relay team of Austin Kowalsky, Caleb Treadwell, Ethan Cooke and William Koenig broke the conference and meet record in a time of 3:05.14.

Saturday Finals – SUNYAC Champions
1650 Free: Clark Davis, Geneseo, 16:43.04
200 Back: Kevin Schaub, Geneseo, 1:51.23!%B
100 Free: Connor Mergler, Buffalo State, 44.74!%B
200 Breast: Zeke Brynin, Oneonta, 2:05.70
200 Fly: Yonghoon Jun, Geneseo, 1:53.78B
400 Free Relay: Austin Kowalsky, Caleb Treadwell, Ethan Cooke, William Koenig, New Paltz, 3:05.14!%

SUNYAC Men's Swimming and Diving All-Conference Teams
(1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers in individual events)

First Team (1st Place)	Event(s)
Arron Carlson, Fredonia	3M Dive, 1M Dive
Jeff Doser, Geneseo	500 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free
Kristian Tialios, Geneseo	200 IM, 100 Back, 200 Back
Connor Mergler, Buffalo State	50 Free, 200 Free, 100 Free
Lucas Santiago, Oneonta	400 IM, 200 Fly
Yonghoon Jun, Geneseo	100 Fly, 200 Fly
Zeke Brynin, Oneonta	100 Breast, 200 Breast
Clark Davis, Geneseo	400 IM, 1650 Free
Kevin Schaub, Geneseo	200 IM, 100 Back, 200 Back
Samuel Randall, Geneseo	1M Dive, 3M Dive

Second Team (2nd/3rd Place)	Event(s)
Gabriel Arias, Brockport	3M Dive
Andy Schunk, Geneseo	500 Free
Conor Kelly, Oneonta	500 Free
Tyler Zapisek, Potsdam	200 IM
Reeve Callen, Cortland	50 Free, 200 Free
William Koenig, New Paltz	50 Free
Ben Ford, Geneseo	400 IM
Scott Guyton, Geneseo	100 Fly
Tyler Zapisek, Potsdam	100 Fly
Jake Jakubek, Cortland	100 Breast, 200 Breast
Jacob Favret, Fredoniga	100 Breast
Dylan Burns, Cortland	100 Back
Rafeael Santiago, Fredonia	1M Dive
Ben Greenspan, Geneseo	1650 Free
Barrett Celecki, New Paltz	1650 Free
Brian Yale, Geneseo	200 Back
Callen Reeve, Cortland	100 Free
Adam Clouthier, Fredonia	200 Breast
Ethan Cooke, New Paltz	200 Fly