Over Spring Break, the UCSD Club Swim Team competed at the 2023 College Club Swimming Nationals at Ohio State. This event was a landmark moment as this was the first ever Nationals Team to represent the club team at this swimmeet. The meet was an amazing success, with a plethora of records being shattered. Many swimmers had personal success and were able to achieve best times in their events. 

 

Overall, UCSD placed 19th out of the 125 teams competing, and was the 3rd among California teams competing, just behind Cal Berkeley and Cal Poly Slo. A total of 26 team records were broken at this meet, which shows the amount of hardwork and training the team put in to swim very well at the meet. 

 

Here are the following records broken:

Jason Howard, Matthew Swida, Nicholas O’Shea, Dylan Oquendo - Men’s 800 Free Relay - 7:15.83

Erin Swift - Women’s 200 Back - 2:10.24

Dylan Oquendo - Men’s 200 Breast - 2:06.21

Erin Swift, Marli Bannai, Ryan Henry, Morgan Rummelhoff - Women’s 400 Medley Relay - 4:08.88

Erin Swift - Women’s 100 Back - 58.96

Anirudh Chandrasekaran, Eric Wang, Mei Fukushima, Ryan Lee - Men’s 400 Medley Relay - 3:33:49

Flip Frauenzimmer, Kai Zeger, Mei Fukushima, Ryan Lee - Men’s 200 Medley Relay - 1:34.13

Flip Frauenzimmer - Men’s 50 Back - 24.56

Kaitlyn Chu - Women’s 200 IM - 2:17.79

Flip Frauenzimmer - Men’s 100 Back - 54.23

Kaitlyn Chu, Erin Swift, Marli Bannai, Ryan Henry - Women’s 400 Free Relay - 3:44.77

Ryan Lee, Jason Howard, Dylan Oquendo, Matthew Swida - Men’s 400 Free Relay - 3:11.99

Ryan Lee - Men’s 100 Free - 47.30

Jason Howard - Men’s 1000 Free - 10:28.50

Morgan Rummelhoff - Women’s 50 Free - 24.75

Erin Swift, Marli Bannai, Ryan Henry, Morgan Rummelhoff - Women’s 200 Medley Relay - 1:52.05

Erin Swift - Women’s 50 Back - 27.57

Dylan Oquendo - Men’s 200 IM - 1:54.68

Dylan Oquendo - Men’s 100 Breast 57.28

Kaitlyn Chu - Women’s 100 Free - 54.93

Marli Bannai, Erin Swift, Yu Ishii, Morgan Rummelhoff - Women’s 200 Free Relay - 1:41.63

Christopher Rochez, Dylan Oquendo, Jason Howard, Ryan Lee - Men’s 200 Free Relay - 1:26.15

Dylan Oquendo - Men’s 50 Breast - 26.58

Morgan Rummelhoff - Women’s 100 IM - 1:05.34

Flip Frauenzimmer - Men’s 100 IM - 54.40

Christopher Rochez, Ryan Lee, Marli Bannai, Morgan Rummelhoff - Mixed 200 Free Relay - 1:31.92

 

The meet was a total success for the team and everyone had an amazing experience competing! The entire team is excited to finishing out the year strong and look forward to training hard for next season.