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Swimmers Finish Historic Season with Record Setting Meet
The Ursinus Bears capped the 2009-10 swimming season at
Centennial Conference Championships with an amazing 17 all-time
school records. Over 70 personal best swims vaulted the Men's
team to a 5th place finish with 388 points - the Bears'
highest finish and point total in Centennial Conference
history. The women's 409 points and 4th place
finish was the Bears best showing since the inception of the
Centennial Conference back in 1994.
The men accounted for ten of the 17 school records led by the
quartet of junior, Lloyd Tannenbaum, sophomore, Christopher Smith,
and freshmen Scott Paine and David Yazbeck. Tannenbaum led the
charge breaking the 200 free (1:45.94), 500 free (4:43.68), 1000
free (9:53.00), and 1650 free (16:25.88). Christopher Smith
re-broke his own butterfly records posting 53.17 in the 100 and
1:56.51 in the 200. David Yazbeck broke the team's oldest
records eclipsing a 23-year-old 100 free record in 48.30 and a 24
year old 50 free record in 21.76. Scott Paine found himself
under Tannenbaum's previous marks in the 200 and 500 free events as
well as Steve Grubb's 1650 mark from 1990, but finished just behind
the Junior. All four men came together in the meet's final
event to snap the 400 free relay record from 1986 by going
3:14.28. Freshman David Wagner joined Tannenbaum, Smith, and
Paine in the 800 free relay to set that new mark at 7:07.78
shattering the old record by over 11 seconds.
