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Men and women finish 5th in swimming, diving meet
Metro wins seven events in Colorado College Classic
By Eric Lansing
lansing@mscd.edu

Photo by Jason Small • jsmall4@mscd.edu The Metro swim team cheers on Jake Haffner during the men’s 200-yard butterfly. Haffner finished second in the event but won the 100 and 200 backstroke. The men finished with 369 points to finish fifth.

The Roadrunners men’s and women’s swim teams finished fifth Jan. 27 and 28 at the Colorado College Classic swimming and diving meet.

“We had some really fast runs this weekend,” Metro head coach Winthrop Dyer said. “Reid (Sutton) in particular, he swam real fast. Also, Paul (Bunge) and Kathy (Lind) swam super fast.”

Sophomore swimmer Lind won the 100-yard backstroke in a time of 1:00.91 and also took the 200-yard backstroke in a time of 2:13.20.

On the men’s side, freshman Bunge won the 200-yard individual medley in a time of 2:02.76 and won the 400-yard individual medley.

Freshman Kenny Rhodes won the 1-meter competition and was second in the 3-meter, both events coming from the diving board.

Sophomore Jake Haffner won two events, namely the 100 and 200 backstroke, and came in second in both the 100 and 200 butterfly events.

“He is doing really well,” Dyer said. “His second day (at the Colorado College Classic) is going to be like his third day at conference. Jake and Kathy, on their backstrokes, just blew everyone away by probably a half a pool length. It really opens up the eyes of the other teams.”

The men scored 369 points for fifth place behind Colorado School of Mines (766), Texas-Permian Basin (601), Colorado College (505) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (477).

The women finished in fifth place with 239 points behind Mines (715), CU-Boulder (618), Colorado College (467) and Texas-Permian Basin (413).

“What we do now is to go pretty short distances,” Dyer said on how the team gets ready for their next meet. “We cut the (swimming) yardage to about half. It’s all super-high quality, so we deplete and go with anabolic buildup. Everything is fast. They won’t do anything slow except for warm-ups. So we just have to get the mindset of fast, fast, fast.”

Metro’s next meet will be at the North Central Conference Championships on Feb. 21 to 24 in Sioux Falls, N.D.