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Kylie Bridenhagen

UWSP Men Sets Trio of Pool Records at Wheaton Invitational

12/2/2017 11:33:00 PM

Wheaton, Ill. - Jack Englehardt (Madison, Wis./West), Reilly Donnellan (Neenah, Wis./Neenah), Sam Jekel (Fitchburg, Wis./Madison West), Grant Moser (St. Michael, Minn./) and Brandon Richardson (Minneapolis, Minn./St. Michael Academy) led the UW-Stevens Point men's swimming team on Saturday as they set three pool records at the Wheaton Invitational.  The men finished with a score of 1141.5, good for first out of a five-team field, while the women finished with a total score of 528.5, good for fourth place out of the same five-team field.
 
Results

Englehardt set a pool record in the 50-yard freestyle defeating a former Pointer record.  He finished with a time of 20.22, also an NCAA selection time.  Teammate Donnellan also set an NCAA selection time where he followed Englehardt in second place with a time of 20.47. 
 
Jekel, Donnellan, Richardson and Englehardt earned a first-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay with a time of 1:29.71, an NCAA selection time.  The group's time broke their own meet record set last year and tied the pool record.
 
Englehardt, Donnellan, Moser and Jekel won the 400-yard freestyle relay.  The relay team finished with a time of 3:01.06, an NCAA consideration time and pool record. 
 
Jacob Aegerter (Cross Plains, Wis./) added a third event win of the weekend with a first-place finish in the 400-yard IM.  His time of 4:04.78 was the fastest among teammates Austin Teunissen (Bismarck, N.D./Bismarck), Zach Jorgenson, Caleb Meixner (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) and Ryan Altaweel (Madison, Wis. ), who all followed Aegerter, respectively, finishing with times just under 4:21.00.
 
Just missing an NCAA time, Moser touched a first place in the 100-yard butterfly.  Moser finished with a time of 49.79. 
 
Jekel swam a NCAA consideration time in the 100-yard backstroke.  He finished in second place with a time of 49.98. 
 
Payton Kilian and Garrett Richetto (Wausau, Wis./East) just missed NCAA consideration times when the duo finished in second and third place in the 200-yard freestyle. The duo finished with times of 1:42.86 and 1:42.89, respectively. 
 
Jackson Aton (Berlin, Wis./Berlin) swam a second-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 59.60. 
 
Michael Mills (Fox Point, Wis./Nicolet) added a third-place finish to his pocket in the 1650-yard freestyle.  He finished with a time of 16:49.28. 
 
Anna O'Malley (St. Charles, Ill. ) finished in second place in the championship swim of the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 58.33.
 
Freshman Breanna Ruffolo (Manitowoc, Wis. ) touched a fifth-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:11.01.  Ruffolo later swam a ninth-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:36.93. 
 
Sydney Richetto (Wausau, Wis. /East) and Erica Perkins (Rochester, Minn./Rochester Century High School) finished in sixth and eighth place in the 50-yard freestyle.  The freshman-senior duo finished with times of 25.43 and 25.69.  Richetto later finished in 12th place in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 2:02.75. 
 
Perkins finished in seventh-place in the 200-yard IM, swimming a time of 2:19.50. 
 
Hannah Flak (/Wittenberg, Wis. ) finished in 10th place in the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 20:17.42. 
 
The Pointers travel to Oshkosh, Wis. on Saturday (Dec. 8) to dual again UW-Oshkosh.  The meet is set to begin at 5:00 p.m.
 
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