The Calvin men's swimming and diving team closed out the 2022 Calvin Winter Invitational in record-breaking fashion on Saturday at the Venema Aquatic Center.

The Knights had several sterling performances highlighted by the school-record swim of freshman Timothy Hayes (Arlington Heights, Il./Prospect HS) in the 200 backstroke in the Saturday morning prelims with a time of 1:49.78. The time broke the previous Calvin record of 1:49.84 set by Ben Holstege in 2018.

Hayes later took seventh in the evening finals with a time of 1:50.50. His prelims time was an NCAA III B' cut qualifying time and places him 14^th on the national qualifying list.

Calvin's 400 freestyle relay team of senior Jacob Heeres (Zeeland, Mich./Holland Christian HS), senior Noah Holstege (Keswick, Va./Covenant), junior Forrest Peterson (Middleton, Wisc./Middleton HS) and senior Bryce Miner (Cupertino, Ca./Homestead HS) had an NCAA III B' cut qualifying time of 2:59.27 that ranks fourth on the national list.

Sophomore Joshua Seidelman (Northville, Mich./Northville HS) was 10^th in the 1650 freestyle with a season-best time of 16:23.06.

In the 100 freestyle, Heeres was fourth (44.23) and Holstege eighth (45.38). In the morning prelims, Heeres clocked a career-best time of 44.04 that ranks as the top time in Division III this season. Holstege had a time of 44.85 in the morning prelims which ranks 11^th on the national list.

In the 100 breaststroke, freshman Caleb Gemmen (Mentor, Oh./Homeschool) was seventh with a career-best time of 2:03.94.

Junior Austin Martinson (Aurora, Il./Metea Valley HS) had the top performance for Calvin in the 200 butterfly, placing 11^th in a time of 1:56.16.

Sophomore Will Goodpaster (Hamilton, Mich./Hamilton HS) had a fourth place finish in the one-meter diving board (378.00) while sophomore Jason Perez (Plainwell, Mich./Plainwell HS) was eighth (205.40).

Competing in a field of Division II and Division III opponents, Calvin finished fourth in the final team standings with 1,450.5 points.

COACHES COMMENT: "It was a really good weekend for our men's team," said Calvin head swim coach Dan Gelderloos. "It was exciting to see Tim (Hayes) get a school record this morning. Sometimes freshmen come in and they have some nerves or are a bit uncertain but Tim latched on to the upperclassmen, really found his footing this weekend and had an amazing performance. He has a bright future and it was great to see our young swimmers grow in this meet. We have a deep team and it was great to see how many season-best performances we had this weekend."