BATON ROUGE, La. - The University of New Orleans men's swimming and
diving program posted several season-bests in closing out a two-day
dual by falling 224-108 to No. 17 LSU on Saturday afternoon.
Jonas Grundstrom and
Mark Schindler highlighted the season-bests by UNO.
Grundstrom
finished second in the 500 free with a time of 4:38.92, topping his
previous team season-best time of 4:39.22 from Nov. 6, 2009 agains
tIncarnate Word. The time was also the third-fastest in school history.
Schindler
followed suit with a second-place finish in the 100 breast, clocking a
57.54. Schindler's previous best on the year came at the Delta State
Christmas Invitational in December, when he timed out at 57.76.
In the 200 free relay, the team of
Ash Dougan,
Jarryd Gregoire,
Birkir Mar Jonsson and
Kevin Tinney swam the second-fastest time in school history and the fastest this year with a 1:26.18.
Rounding out the top performers as
Dominick Butts-Ealy
in the 1-meter dive. Butt-Ealy's six-dive score of 295.87 was his
second-highest of the season, as he once more narrowly missed a chance
to join teammates
Jonathan Field and
Johnny DeMaine in qualifying for NCAA regionals.
The
dual against LSU closes out the regular season for the Privateers, who
will now turn to their attention to the Sun Belt Conference
Championships, which begins Feb. 17 in Nashville, Tenn.
