COLUMBIA, Mo. – The Miner swimming team moved up one spot in the team standings Thursday night at the NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships and also saw its longest standing swimming record fall during the course of the night.
Freshman Danny Murphy broke a record that had stood for 22 years in the S&T books in the finals of the 400-yard individual medley as he recorded a time of 4:00.68. Murphy’s performance, which broke Derek Coon’s record of 4:00.85 that had stood since 1986, was good for seventh place in the final standings.
S&T’s best finish Thursday came from its 400-yard medley relay team of Kyle Kammer, Zlatan Hamzic, Paul Reinisch and David Sanchez-Turner with a time of 3:21.41 to earn All-America status for the group.
The Miners also got an All-America showing from Matt Hug in the 200-yard freestyle Thursday as he finished eighth in a time of 1:40.77; Sanchez-Turner placed 12th in that event for honorable mention All-America as he recorded a time of 1:40.43 in the evening session after posting a personal-best mark of 1:39.93 in the preliminaries.
Jeff Enge finished a close second – by .08 seconds – in the consolation 400-IM to Minnesota State’s Marty Wahle to earn honorable mention All-America in that event. Enge finished the consolation final in 4:01.09.
The Miners opened the night with a seventh place finish in the 200-yard freestyle relay, as the team of Kyle Gordon, David Sanchez-Turner, Matt Hug and Mark Chamberlain landed All-America honors by posting a seasonal-best time of 1:22.80.
S&T is currently fifth in the team standings, with Drury well out in front of the pack with 233 points. North Dakota is currently second, followed by West Chester and Ouachita Baptist.
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