Gallaudet men's swimming wins 10 events in home opener, sweeps diving competition

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It was a dominant performance by the Gallaudet University men’s swimming team Saturday at home in the conference opener against SUNY Cobleskill as the Bison won 10 of 11 events and swept the diving competition to win 138-71. GU, the defending North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) champions, has won three consecutive meets and are off to one of the best starts in program history at 3-1.

Sophomore DJ Everton-Lovell (Norfolk, Va.) won two individual events and was a member of the first-place 200-yard medley relay team. Everton-Lovell won the 200-yard IM (2:17.76) and the 200-yard butterfly (2:28.92). He was joined on the relay team by seniors Brian Bennett (Colorado Springs, Colo.), James McGowan (Palm Coast, Fla.) and Sean Ryant (Cleveland, Ohio) as the quartet waltzed to the first-place win with a time of 1:50.34.

Bennett won the 200-yard freestyle (1:49.72) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:05.19) while McGowan came in first in the 50-yard freestyle (23.45 seconds) and 100-yard freestyle (52.17 seconds). Senior Daniel Katz-Hernandez (Montgomery Village, Md.) won the 1,650-yard freestyle. Junior Kaliob Miller (Ardmore, Okla.) took home first-place finishes in the 200-yard backstroke (2:43.36) and was a member of the 400-yard freestyle relay team (4:04.52). He was joined by Robb Ingram, Hipolito Deluna and Ramnath Shenoy. In the diving competition, Jason Almendarez won and was followed by Ingram and Miller.

The Bison will travel to Towson, Md., next Saturday, November 19, to participate in a non-conference double dual meet at 1 p.m. against Arcadia University and the host Gophers from Goucher College.