Men's Swim Team Enters Holiday Break With Win Over Army
December 11, 2002 | Men's Swimming and Diving
Dec. 11, 2002
Princeton, N.J. - Princeton captured nine of 13 events and cruised to a 173-124 win over Army in men's swimming and diving action on Wednesday afternoon at DeNunzio Pool. Freshman Brian Shue won two events himself as the Tigers improve to 4-0 before the holiday break.
Shue took the 1,000-yard freestyle in 9:37.59, beating out teammates Brian Ellis and Sami Mardam-Bay, who finished second and third respectively. Shue also won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:40.08 to give the Tigers an edge in the distance freestyle races.
Junior Jeff Yellin led a 1-2-3 Princeton finish in the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:42.86. Juniors Juan Valdivieso and Stephen Flemming followed Yellin in the 200 free. Junior Warren Cheng won the 100-yard backstroke, edging out senior Carl Hessler, who won the 100-yard butterfly in 51.87.
Sophomore Evan Delaney (100 Breast), junior Mike Salerno (100 Free), junior Hallet Johnson (200 Back) all won individual events for the Tigers while the 200-yard medley relay team rolled behind the senior foursome of Pat Donahue, Garth Fealey, Hessler and Jesse Gage.
Princeton is idle during the holiday break and returns to action on January 26 at Dartmouth.
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