Williams Finishes Fifth at NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships
OXFORD, Ohio - Williams finished fifth at the 2008 NCAA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships hosted by the College of Wooster at the the University of Miami’s (Ohio) Corwin M. Nixon Aquatic Center. Amherst was the only other NESCAC team to finish in the top 10, climbing from 12th to 10th with 131 points.
Amherst junior Kai Robinson completed a sweep of the diving events, taking the three-meter event with a score of 535.55 points. Robinson was named the “Diver of the Meet” and his coach, Mary Ellen Clark, was named “Diving Coach of the Meet."
Kenyon scored 635 points to outdistance Johns Hopkins by 305 points for the 2008 NCAA title, as the Blue Jays ended with 330 points. The Lords string of titles is unmatched by any other program in NCAA history, male or female, across all three NCAA divisions. The next longest championships streak belongs to the Kenyon women’s swimming and diving program, which captured 17 straight titles from 1984-2000.
Following Kenyon and Johns Hopkins in the team race was Denison at 314.5 points, Emory University at 261 and Williams College with 211.
