MIDDLEBURY, Vt. -- The Hamilton College Continentals broke four team records and made two NCAA championship 'B' cuts through the first 10 events of the 2025 NESCAC Men's Swimming and Diving Championship at the Middlebury College Natatorium on Feb. 20 and 21.
Hamilton started off the meet with a bang in the 800-yard freestyle relay on Thursday night. The Continentals' time of 6:39.02 met an NCAA 'B' cut and eclipsed the previous team record by more than five seconds.
Matthew Chang '28, Steven Roche '27, Loui Chambon '28 and
Nathaniel Taft '27 were the members of the relay.
Chambon added another team record in the 500 free on Friday night. His time of 4:33.44 edged the old record of 4:34.77 held by D.J. Postles '00 since 1999.
Chang posted a team record in the 200 individual medley with a time of 1:51.30. He also led off the record-setting 400 medley relay that finished with a time of 3:21.38.
Matthew Hake '26, Alex Vasquez '27 and Roche joined Chang on the relay.
Taft made an NCAA 'B' cut in the 50 free with a time of 20.21 seconds in the preliminary heats. He finished one one-hundredth of a second slower in the evening finals but was still the runner-up.
Hamilton is in eighth place out of 11 teams. Preliminary heats on Saturday, Feb. 22 start at 10 a.m. and the finals start at 5:45 p.m. Three-meter diving trials begin at 2 p.m.
TOP PERFORMANCES
800 Yard Freestyle Relay
4.
Matthew Chang '28,
Steven Roche '27,
Loui Chambon '28,
Nathaniel Taft '27 (6:39.02)
50 Yard Breaststroke
11.
Matthew Hake '26, 25.57 (3rd in conso final)
15.
Ben Chidley '27, 25.95 (7th in conso final, 25.54 in prelims)
50 Yard Butterfly
11.
Alex Vasquez '27, 22.78 (3rd in conso final, 22.66 in prelims)
13.
Josh Smith '26, 22.82 (5th in conso final, 22.73 in prelims)
500 Yard Freestyle
11. Chambon, 4:33.44 (3rd in conso final)
22.
Luke Engel, 4:40.18 (6th in preconso final)
50 Yard Backstroke
22.
William Roth '28, 24.53 (6th in preconso final, 24.39 in prelims)
200 Yard Individual Medley
10. Roche, 1:51.75 (2nd in conso final)
17. Chang, 1:51.30 (1st in preconso final)
50 Yard Freestyle
2. Taft, 20.22 (20.21 in prelims)
11. Vasquez, 20.94 (3rd in conso final, 20.73 in prelims)
1-Meter Diving
8.
Alexander Pitts '28, 349.35 points
400 Yard Medley Relay
8. Chang, Hake, Vasquez, Roche (3:21.38)
