Session One Results

GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Sophomore Jack Edelson (Charlotte, N.C./Providence) broke the longest-standing program record for the Gettysburg College men's swimming team and helped the Bullets surge to the lead in the team scoring on the opening day of the Gettysburg Invitational.
 
Gettysburg ended the first session of its two-day invitational with an 86-point lead over the University of Mary Washington. The Bullets won a total of five events for 409 points.
 
Edelson provided the highlight of the night with an incredible race in the 200-yard butterfly. The sophomore was the only competitor to go sub-30 in each of his 50 splits and touched the wall first with a time of 1:53.51. He bested his personal record by over a second and edged out Peter Casares '98 (1:54.07) for the program's all-time mark. Casares' record had stood since 1998, making it the longest mark in Gettysburg's record book by 15 years.
 
Sophomore Duncan Proxmire (McLean, Va./Langley) continued his domination of the long-distance events this season, achieving an NCAA "B" cut and winning the 1,650 freestyle by 38 seconds with a person-best time of 16:00.27. Aside from his opening 50 and final 50, Proxmire's splits varied by just 1.59 seconds and each remained below 30 seconds. He finished 16 seconds ahead of the national "B" standard and topped his PR by 11 seconds.
 
Senior Francisco Nieves (Alexandria, Va./Edison) held off first-year teammate Sam Nonemaker (Shippensburg, Pa./Shippensburg) for a victory in the 100 free. Nieves led from the start, while Nonemaker overtook Mary Washington's Brian Harnish in the final 25 yards for the runner-up position.
 
The Bullets also claimed top honors in both relay events. The 200 medley team of sophomores Aedan Collins (Westfield, N.J./Westfield) and Oliver Yancey (Wallingford, Pa./Strath Haven), Edelson, and Nonemaker recorded the fifth-fastest time in school history at 1:32.98. It was a 1-2 finish for Gettysburg in the 400 free relay as Edelson, Yancey, sophomore Danny Petrillo (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan), and Nonemaker took the race in 3:06.27.
 
In addition to Edelson, the 200 fly race witnessed three of the top four times in program history. With Edelson setting a brisk pace, freshmen CJ Hewitt (Bridgewater, N.J./Bridgewater-Raritan) and Oliver Pickering (Millburn, N.J./Millburn) flew into the wall third and fourth with times of 1:55.98 and 1:56.25, respectively. Those mark the third- and fourth-fastest times at Gettysburg behind Edelson and Casares.
 
Junior Adam Dias (Wilmington, Del./Charter School of Wilmington) and Yancey finished 2-3 in the 200 breaststroke with the sophomore setting a new PR at 2:09.05. Sophomore Jack Freeman (Haddonfield, N.J./Pennington School) recorded the program's eighth-fastest time in the 200 back (1:56.23) on the way to a third-place performance. Senior Ernie Ribera (Burlingame, Calif./Burlingame) came away with a third-place finish with a time of 17:36.02 in the 1,650.
 
Action resumes inside the Bullets Pool Saturday morning at 10 a.m. The program will include the 400 IM, 100 butterfly, 200 free, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, and 800 free relay. The event's third and final session will kick off at 5 p.m. Saturday.