NESCAC Championships await swimmers

Following Tufts' loss to Williams College on Saturday -- the only blemish on an otherwise perfect record -- there are three weeks of downtime before the NESCAC championship. This should be more than enough time for the 8-1 Jumbos, who have until Feb. 27 before hitting the pool.

However, unlike the Jumbos' previous nine match-ups, this time the intensity will be turned up a notch as Tufts will travel to Maine to take on all nine of its conference competitors at the NESCAC championships at Bowdoin.

Tufts will be taking 24 members of its 52-man team on to the next level of competition. Twenty-two swimmers will take part, as well as the two-man Jumbo diving team of sophomore Todd Putnam and graduate student Connell Cloyd.

The other members of the Jumbo swimming and diving team traveling to the NESCAC championships at Bowdoin are: freshmen Greg Bettencourt, Nathan Cronin, Justin Fanning, Sloan Harris, Michael Kinsella and Ray Radovich; sophomores Brett Baker, Jon Godsey, Jason Kapit, Seth Rosenberg, and Steven Ward; juniors Seth Baron, Michael Rochette, and Alex Turner; and seniors Sam Burlingame, Tyler Duckworth, Nick Ghoussaini, Kaili Mauricio, Jamie Meyers, Greg Schmidt, Aeric Solow, and Richard Halpert, who is technically a junior but will be graduating this year.

In anticipation for the meet, most of the members of the 22 man swimming delegation will shave down in hopes of dropping critical seconds from their times. A few members already were shaved for the dual-meet versus Williams last Saturday.