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Tim Petri
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Tim Petri of Eksjo, Sweden., Performs Well at NEWMAC Swimming and Diving Championships

2015 Feb 26

Tim Petri was one of several WPI men's and women's swimming and diving student-athletes to earn all-conference and/or help combine to set 24 program records (13 men, 11 women) at the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Swimming and Diving Championships this past weekend at the WPI Sports & Recreation Center Pool.

Andrew Bauer collected NEWMAC All-Conference First Team accolades for winning the 200-yard freestyle after helping the 800-yard freestyle relay team begin the four-day competition with a victory. He was joined by David Smallwood, Alex Powers and Nathan Hughes. Seth MacDonald also took home first team honors with a triumph in the 400-yard IM.

Second team honorees included Bauer in the 50-yard freestyle and Smallwood in the 100-yard butterfly. The 200-yard freestyle (Ben List, Hughes, Smallwood and Bauer), 400-yard medley (Powers, Tim Petri, Smallwood and List), 200-yard medley (Powers, Petri, Smallwood and List) and 400-yard freestyle (List, Karim Elsayed, Jon Decelle and Bauer) teams also took silver for the Engineers.

On the women's side, Jenny Day, Eva Childers, Emily Matsco and Emily Martin earned second team honors in the 800-yard freestyle relay while Nysa Casha was the runner up in the 100-yard butterfly.

The men's records that fell included the 200-yard medley relay (1:32.12), 400-yard medley relay (3:21.61), 200-yard freestyle relay (1:22.83) and 800-yard freestyle relay (6:45.47). Setting individual records were Ben List (50 free - 20.76), Andrew Bauer (100 free - 45.59, 200 free - 1:39.88), Tim Petri (50 breast - 26.33, 100 breast - 56.73, 200 breast - 2:05.22), Seth MacDonald (200 IM - 1:53.70, 400 IM - 4:04.25) and Matt Suarez on the 3-meter board (401.25).

The women's 200-yard medley relay (Marissa Patterson, Zoe Eggleston, Casha, and Martin - 1:45.55), 200-yard freestyle relay (Casha, Day, Tori Claverie and Martin - 1:37.96), 400-yard freestyle relay (Childers, Emily Matsco, Day and Martin - 3:35.53) and 800-yard freestyle relay (7:42.54) records were all reset. Individually, Day (500 free - 5:08.92, 400 IM - 4:38.75) and Martin (200 fly - 2:10.55, 200 IM - 2:10.95) each broke a pair of records while Matsco (200 free - 1:56.13), Casha (100 fly - 57.31) and Veronica Nikolaki (1-meter dive, 478.75) set one apiece.

Nikolaki is in Springfield at the NCAA Division III Diving Regional this weekend and could join the 800-yard freestyle team of Smallwood, Powers, Hughes and Bauer at the NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships next week in Shenandoah, Texas.

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