Men's Swimming and Diving: Ohio Northern (5-3 Overall) at OAC Championships
Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 16-19, 2022, - Ocasek Natatorium, Akron, Ohio
This Week's Championships: The Ohio Northern men's swimming and diving team travels to Akron this week for the 82nd annual Ohio Athletic Conference Championships … The meet will be held at the University of Akron's Ocasek Natatorium … Preliminary races Thursday, Friday and Saturday will begin at 10 a.m. each day … The finals will begin at 6 pm each day ... In a change this year, the 800-yard free relay will be held on Wednesday night at 7:40 pm ... The top 16 swimmers will score team points in each event ... The top 8 qualifiers after the prelims will compete for the league title and the next eight qualifiers will compete in the consolation race for places 9-16 ... The top three finishers in the 15 individual events and the top two relay teams in each of the five relay events will earn All-Conference honors ... Junior Calob Cope is the top seed in the 500 free (4:47.43) and the 1650 free (9:57.25 for 1000 yards) and is third in the 400 I.M. (4:13.59) ... He is a 4-time All-OAC performer, earning the honor twice in the 400 I.M. and once in each of the distance events ... Senior Jeremy Adams is the top seed in the 100 breast (:55.60) and is seeded second in the 200 breast (2:06.89) and the 200 I.M. (1:55.24) ... He is a 9-time All-OAC award winner and has been named Academic All-OAC each of the past two seasons ... Sophomore Ben Lacey is the second seed in the 200 fly (1:53.93), third in the 50 free (:20.95) and fourth in the 100 fly (:50.72) ... Senior Jackson Stanley is seeded third in the 100 fly (:50.08) and the 200 fly (1:57.15) ... He was All-OAC a year ago in the 200 and 400 medley relays ... Sophomore Wes Richards is seeded fourth in the 100 breast (:59.37) and the 200 breast (2:11.62) ... Freshman Brady Horgan is seeded third in the 100 free (:46.67) ... Seniors Justin DeLano and Mike Lewandowski and sophomore Evan Sailor also return as All-OAC honorees.
Schedule of Events (Distances in Yards)
Wednesday
- 800 Freestyle Relay
Thursday
- 200 Freestyle Relay
- 500 Freestyle
- 200 Individual Medley
- 50 Freestyle
- 400 Medley Relay
Friday
- 200 Medley Relay
- 400 Individual Medley
- 100 Butterfly
- 200 Freestyle
- 100 Breaststroke
- 100 Backstroke
- Diving
Saturday
- 1,650 Freestyle
- 200 Backstroke
- 100 Freestyle
- 200 Breaststroke
- 200 Butterfly
- Diving
- 400 Freestyle Relay
ONU head coach Austin Veltman: Veltman is in his fourth season at Ohio Northern with an overall record of 16-11, a winning percentage of .593.
