{"id":281528,"date":"2017-10-23T16:47:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=281528"},"modified":"2018-02-07T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:25:58","slug":"division-iii-weekly-recap-denison-tests-eastern-michigan-emory-posts-quick-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/division-iii-weekly-recap-denison-tests-eastern-michigan-emory-posts-quick-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Division III Weekly Recap: Denison Tests Eastern Michigan, Emory Posts Quick Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the middle of October, many of the Division III teams decided to test the waters with Division I or II teams to get a chance at some strong early season racing. (#3\/4) Denison posed a threat to Division I Eastern Michigan but ultimately fell short 187-111 on the men’s side and 184-115 on the women’s side.<\/p>\n

Denison’s best performances came from\u00a0Matt Hedman\u00a0<\/strong>in the 1000 (9:34.45) and the 500 (4:37.18) to put him second in both events in the national rankings.\u00a0Stuart Hohm\u00a0<\/strong>also had a win in the 200 free for Denison with a 1:41.08, to also put him second in Division III so far this season. Hohm also leads a strong group of 200 freestylers at Denison that could repeat in the 800 free relay at NCAA’s in Indianapolis later in the year.\u00a0Walt Dauksher\u00a0<\/strong>(1:41.71) and\u00a0Ryan Stevenson\u00a0<\/strong>(1:42.04) are ranked third and fourth in the national rankings while\u00a0Drake Horton\u00a0<\/strong>(1:44.27) is ninth. Denison is already looking tough to beat in that relay moving forward as only the College of New Jersey has more than one person ranked in the top ten nationally and they have two.<\/p>\n

Denison also got some work done in the strokes with\u00a0Bebe Wang\u00a0<\/strong>leading Division III so far with a 1:51.61 in the 200 back and a 1:54.74 in the 200 IM, along with a pair of second ranked times from\u00a0Kenny Fox\u00a0<\/strong>in the\u00a0100 fly (50.52) and Francis Biagioli\u00a0<\/strong>in the 400 IM (4:13.70). Biagioli did that swim in a time trial.<\/p>\n

Other top times from the weekend came from\u00a0Emory’s\u00a0Oliver Smith\u00a0<\/strong>in the 50 free with a 20.47 in their win over Birmingham Southern, Pomona-Pitzer’s\u00a0Lukas Ming Menkhoff\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 free (46.03) in the Malibu Invitational and Johns Hopkin’s\u00a0Brandon Fabian\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 free (1:40.76) in their loss to Navy and Towson.<\/p>\n

The Denison women had good swims from breaststroker\u00a0Katherine Kustritz\u00a0<\/strong>who leads the nation by a whopping margin in both the 100 (1:02.17) and the 200 (2:18.17). Kustritz was a runner-up last season in the 100 at NCAA’s and finished seventh in the 200.<\/p>\n

Denison also had a nation leading time from\u00a0Halli Garza\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 fly (2:06.04) as well as a second ranked time from\u00a0Casey Kirby\u00a0<\/strong>in the 100 back (57.95).<\/p>\n

Looking across the nation, strong swims came from Johns Hopkins’\u00a0Anna Wisniewski\u00a0<\/strong>in the 50 free (24.06) and 100 fly (56.73) in their loss to Navy and Towson, and Emory’s\u00a0Cindy Cheng\u00a0<\/strong>in the 200 back (2:04.71) and 200 free (1:54.16) in their win over Birmingham Southern.<\/p>\n

A lot of the top ten ranked teams<\/a> were off today but other highlights on the weekend included:<\/p>\n