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| Travis Stensby |
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The Miner swimming team retained its fourth place position in the team standings at the NCAA Division II Swimming Championships while getting all of its participants in the meet to All-America status heading into the final day of competition.
UMR also continued rewriting the record books as it got a pair of third place finishes and a fifth on an individual basis Friday and also received a fourth place showing from its 800-yard freestyle relay team that got Andy Shelley to the All-America level, which gave each of the 12 Miners in Buffalo at least one award for the week.
Travis Stensby, who had a runner-up finish in the 100-yard butterfly on Thursday, took third in the 100-yard backstroke Friday with a time of 50.49. Earlier in the day, he established his second school record showing of the week as he swam a 49.70 in the preliminaries, the best time in the early session.
Matt Hug had the other third place showing Friday and it came after he had the top mark in the preliminaries as well. Hug posted a time of 4:31.47 in the early round, then bettered that by more than two seconds with another school record showing, completing the race in a time of 4:29.14.
UMR had a pair of All-America performances in the 100-yard breaststroke, as Matt Adams earned his second individual award of the meet with a fifth-place effort in 57.04 seconds and Matt Hammond placed 16th -- earning honorable mention status -- in 59.33 seconds in the finals.
The Miners' 800-freestyle relay team of Mark Chamberlain, Shelley, Adams and Hug recorded a time of 6:47.15 to break yet another school standard, topping the old record set in the same facility eight seasons ago by over a second.
As a team, the Miners have established eight new school records over the first three days of the national meet.
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