LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- Trinity University teammates Michael Kohl and Konstantine Partalas were named the league’s male Swimmer and Diver-of-the-Year, respectively, based on exclusive voting by the head coaches of the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference. 2022 All-SCAC Men's Swim/Dive Team
Kohl, a sophomore from Missouri City, Texas, had the best season of his young Trinity career. He won all three of his events at the 2022 SCAC Swimming and Diving Championships and earned Swimmer-of-the-Meet honors for the second consecutive season. Kohl hit the wall first in the 50 free (20.36 – third fastest in SCAC Meet history), 100 free (44.61 – second fastest in SCAC Meet history) and the 100 fly (47.61 – SCAC Meet/Open record). Kohl now has six individual SCAC titles which ranks him tied for 17th all-time in SCAC history. Following the SCAC Championships, Kohl represented Trinity at the NCAA Championships, highlighted by an Honorable Mention All-American performance in the 100-yard fly, finishing 16th in the country. He also finished 18th and 45th, respectively, in the 50- and 100-yard freestyle. Additionally, Kohl was a member of the Tigers All-American 200-yard medley relay team that finished eighth with an SCAC open record time of 1:28.91. He also swam a leg on the Honorable Mention All-American 200-yard freestyle relay team that finished 16th nationally with an SCAC open record time of 1:20.80. Kohl was a key part of Trinity’s 26th-place finish at the 2022 NCAA Championships, the highest finish for an SCAC men’s team since Trinity placed 17th at the 2017 Championship.
Kohl, who also won the honor last year, is the seventh student-athlete to repeat as SCAC Swimmer-of-the-Year. He is the ninth-straight Trintiy student-athlete to win the award and 14th overall since the league reintroduced swimming as an officially sponsored conference sport in 1998-99.
Partalas, a sophomore from San Antonio, Texas, claimed gold in both the 1- and 3-meter board competitions at the SCAC Championships, earning SCAC Diver-of-the-Meet honors in the process. The victory on the low board represented his second consecutive win in that event at the championships, making him the first repeat winner on the 1-meter board since Trinity’s Duncan MacAskill took top honors back in 2016 and 2017. He was also the top SCAC finisher at the NCAA Division III Diving Regionals, finishing seventh on both boards, posting a 1-meter score of 475.35 and 3-meter mark of 476.00. The award marks the seventh-straight year a Trinity diver has earned the league’s top honor.
Additionally, the Trinity University staff – led by first-year head coach Cathleen Pruden, along with assistant coach John Ryan, assistant coach Adrien Downey, and diving coach Stan Randall – earned SCAC Men’s Coaching Staff-of-the-Year honors.
