INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Trinity University Men’s Swimming and Diving team capped off its 2021-22 season with a 26th-place finish at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships following four days of competition.
The Tigers finished with 29 total points, just five points shy of a top-25 finish, highlighted by two All-American relay performances and one individual All-American accolade.
Kendal Southwell turned in the highest induvial finish over the course of the final two days of competition when he finished 31st in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:05.98. Southwell also competed in the 100-yard breaststroke on day three of the NCAA Championships and finished 34th, hitting the wall in 57.03.
Other individual highlights during the final two days of competition included Michael Kohl and Nathan Early in the 100-yard freestyle. Kohl, who earned Honorable Mention All-American honors in the 100-yard butterfly earlier in the week finished 45th in the 100-yard free with a time of 45.49. Early finished 55th after he hit the wall in 46.37.
In relay action, the Tigers closed out the 2022 NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships with a 23rd-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay. Kohl and Early were joined by Caleb Manifold and Andrew Crosley and finished the relay in a time of 3:04.20.
Trinity’s 26th-place finish is the highest SCAC team finish at the NCAA Championships since the Tigers finished 17th nationally in 2017.
