Swimming & diving teams compete in 800 free relay at 2019 MIAA Championships

HOLLAND, Mich. – The first day of the 2019 Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) Championships is over for the Olivet College men's and women's swimming & diving teams. The championships are taking place at the Holland Community Aquatic Center.

• In tonight's only final, the 800 freestyle relay, the team of juniors Eric Wood and Zach Meharg, senior Bryan Plesner and freshman Cade Erickson finished fifth with a time of 7:17.65. The 200 split times for Wood, Meharg and Erickson were lifetime bests, while Plesner's split was a season-best.
• Sophomore Patrick Gault time-trialed the 200-yard individual medley, and completed the race in a personal-best time of 2:14.71.
• In the preliminaries of the one-meter diving, junior Dalton Miner scored 358.40 points. The total puts him in fifth-place entering the finals tomorrow night.

• The only final tonight was the 800 freestyle relay, and the quartet of seniors Delaney Graham and Sabrina Butler, sophomore Amelia Tomalka and freshman Kayla Eichaker placed sixth with a time of 8:23.18. Graham's, Tomalka's and Eichaker's 200 splits were lifetime-bests, and Butler's split was a season-best.

• " This was exactly the start to the meet we were looking for!  Can't wait to see the improvements that the Comets make on Day 2!"

• Day two of the championships gets under way tomorrow with preliminaries at 10 a.m., and finals in the same events at 5:30 p.m. Events on day two include 200 freestyle relay, 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley, 50 freestyle and 400 medley relay, as well as finals for the men's one-meter diving, and prelims and finals of the women's three-meter diving.