2024 MIT Winter Invitational
- December 6-8, 2024
- Zesiger Middle Pool, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Brief Course Yards (25 yards)
- Meet Outcomes
The MIT ladies put collectively a robust efficiency to win the 2024 MIT Winter Invite, whereas the Tufts males took house the workforce title for the third consecutive 12 months.
Girls’s Recap
The Engineers have been stellar within the ladies’s meet, placing up the highest occasions throughout all 5 relays for this season up to now. Final season, the MIT ladies took house their first nationwide title in a relay in program historical past within the 200 medley relay.
The Engineers obtained issues rolling on Friday night time within the 800 freestyle relay, crushing the varsity document by almost seven seconds (7:18.87) with the workforce of Alex Turvey (1:50.57), Sydney Smith (1:49.62), Kate Augustyn (1:50.14), and Ella Roberson (1:48.54). That point would have been good for 2nd at NCAAs final March.
The identical quartet additionally closed the meet with a college document within the 400 free relay (3:22.31), with Turvey reprising her lead-off place (50.52), adopted by Roberson (49.52), Augustyn (51.28), and Smith (50.99).
Turvey (23.33), Annika Naveen (22.75), Smith (22.88), and Roberson (22.10) made it a trio of freestyle faculty data with a win within the 200 free relay (1:31.06), a time that will have beat Pomona-Pitzer’s title-winning time by almost half a second.
Turvey, a graduate scholar who spent her undergraduate profession at Pomona-Pitzer, was a key part of the Sagehen’s 2024 titles within the 200 and 400 free relays.
The MIT ladies have been additionally dominant within the medley relays, setting new pool data in each. The 200 medley (1:40.44) consisted of Augustyn (25.66), first-year Sarah Bernard (28.79), Naveen (23.87), and Roberson (22.12). The 400 medley noticed the same squad of Augustyn (53.68), Bernard (1:02.48), Turvey (55.11), and Roberson (49.49) workforce up (3:40.76).
There’s nonetheless a number of the season left to go, however this places the Engineers in a robust place come March. Final season they completed fifth at NCAAs, their highest in program historical past and simply 15.5 factors again of 4th-place Williams School.
A handful of particular person faculty data additionally went down by the hands of the Engineers. Roberson reset her personal data within the 50 free (22.86) and 100 free (49.52), whereas Bernard broke MIT’s program data within the 200 breast (2:13.89) and 400 IM (4:19.58). Smith additionally set a brand new MIT document within the 100 fly (54.89), a typical that had stood for over a decade.
Tufts obtained two wins from junior Madeline Dunn, who received the five hundred free (4:52.76) and 1650 free (16:49.76). Dunn’s time within the mile is a brand new private finest and undercuts her time from the 2024 NCAA championships by almost 30 seconds. Her swim was the second sub-17:00 outing of her profession.
Different Highlights:
- 2024 double-backstroke champion Kate Augustyn hit an NCAA A-cut within the 100 again main off MIT’s 400 medley relay (53.68). The senior owns the nationwide document within the occasion.
- MIT divers Fiora Beratahani and Rachel Loh went 1-2 in each boards. They have been joined by teammate Emma Scott for a podium sweep in 3-meter.
Males’s Recap
On the lads’s facet, fifth-year Tobe Obochi put up a robust efficiency within the last NCAA meet of his profession. He shone in his signature dash freestyle occasions and flexed his versatility within the short-axis strokes. Obochi owns particular person nationwide titles within the 100 free (2022), 50 free (2024), and the 200 and 400 freestyle relays (2022).
Obochi simply received the 50 free (19.78) and 100 free (43.86), although he swam quicker occasions on relay lead-offs and in prelims. His morning time main off the Engineers’ 200 free relay was a brand new private finest and pool document, simply lacking the varsity document by 0.05-seconds. His quickest 100 free got here from the prelims of the person occasion (43.66).
These accustomed to Obochi’s exploits received’t be shocked by how he cut up his 100 freestyles, nevertheless it’s price noting that the margin between his opening and shutting 50s narrowed in his three swims on Sunday. He cut up 21.69/21.97 in prelims, 21.90/21.96 in finals, and 21.89/21.93 on a relay lead-off.
Obochi additionally competed in a 100 fly time trial (47.47) and the 100 breast (52.75). His time within the latter was an NCAA A-cut and presently stands because the quickest time in D3.
With Obochi’s departure, the Engineers lose a central member of their dash core. Nonetheless, the freshman class appears able to step up. Grant Hu set a brand new faculty document within the 400 IM (3:51.74) and likewise picked up a win within the 500 free (4:26.74). Gidean Karp received a slim race within the 200 free (1:38.59) over Tufts’ Ron Lyubman (1:38.64) who set a brand new faculty document for the Jumbos.
Even with standout performances, the Engineers’ smaller squad was no match for Tufts within the total standings.
The Jumbos’ high performer was Eric Lundgren, who helped break 4 workforce data over the course of the meet. Individually, he set a brand new document within the 100 backstroke main off a relay (47.28) after already breaking it within the particular person occasion. He additionally cleared the varsity document in a 400 IM time trial (3:55.77). The senior additionally broke the pool document within the 200 again (1:44.65), ending inside two-tenths of his finest time.
Lundgren swam backstroke on Tufts’ profitable and record-breaking and medley relays. He (22.20) was joined by Emmett Adams (23.95), Ethan Schreier (21.47), and Soeren Euvrard (19.75) within the 200 medley. Within the 400 medley, Lundgren’s document time was adopted by Adams (53.52), Schreier (47.58), and Euvrard (43.97) as soon as once more.
Scheier additionally picked up two occasion wins within the 100 fly (48.38) and 200 fly (1:47.37).
Different Highlights:
- Emory’s Solly Berkenwald swept the diving occasions, amassing 514.20 factors in 1-meter and 557.70 in 3-meter.
- Sophomore Jack Nussbaum (Tufts) received the 200 breast (2:01.01), over 4 seconds quicker than what he swam ultimately season’s NCAA championships.
Group Scores
Girls:
- MIT – 1944.5
- Tufts – 1602.5
- RPI – 760
- Simmons – 279
- Wellesley – 263
- Emory (divers solely) – 157
Males:
- Tufts – 1769
- MIT – 1538
- RPI – 880
- Emory (divers solely) – 48
