NCAA III CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY FOUR RESULTS

GREENSBORO, NC – The Calvin men's swimming and diving team completed the highest national team finish in program history on Saturday night, finishing seventh at the NCAA III Championships.

Calvin finished the four-day meet with a final score of 188 points, finishing 27 points ahead of Carnegie Mellon and 12 points behind Denison. Calvin's previous best national team finish was ninth place.

Calvin produced a pair of All-America swims on Saturday night as junior David Bajwa (Bethesda, Md./The Heights School) cruised to a fourth place finish in the 200 backstroke while the Calvin 400 freestyle relay team of Bajwa, senior Vlad Molin (Rolling Meadows, Il./Rolling Meadows HS), senior Forrest Peterson (Middleton, Wisc./Middleton HS) and sophomore Charles Platt (Downers Grove, Il./Downers Grove North HS) took fourth place as well.

Bajwa advanced to the championship finals with a morning prelims time of 1:45.45 that was good for a tie for second place. In the championship finals, he recorded a time of 1:45.62 for a fourth place All-America swim. It completed an amazing week for Bajwa that included a seventh place finish in the 50 freestyle and a sixth place finish in the 100 backstroke as well as swimming in four All-America relays. In taking fourth in the 200 backstroke, he became the first individual in Calvin men's swimming and diving history to claim three top-eight individual finishes in the same NCAA III Championships meet.

He then led off Calvin's fourth place 400 freestyle relay which claimed its best-ever finish in the race at the national meet with a time of 2:57.47.

Earlier in the day, Platt competed in the prelims of the 200 backstroke and took 22^nd (1:49.52). Peterson competed in the 100 freestyle prelims and took 29^th (45.33). Sophomore Caleb Gemmen (Mentor, Oh./Home School) also competed in the 200 breaststroke prelims and placed 29^th (2:02.19).

COACHES COMMENT: "Some great stories came out of this weekend and through it all we are walking away with some big moments and set some high-water marks for the future," said Calvin head swim coach Dan Gelderloos. "Our men were on fire all weekend and set a program record for most points scored and highest team finish. We had three All-America relays and several school records. Just a great collective performance. I also want to mention David Bajwa individually. He might be the most improved swimmer on the planet. He had the best performance at a national meet in Calvin men's swim history. He was just amazing and I am so happy for him."

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