MONTERREY PARK, Calif.—Lewis & Clark College swimming broke two program records and posted seven top-10 marks in program history on Day One of the Winter Collegiate Swim Invite. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
The Pioneers kicked off their annual mid-season larger meet on Friday against a large field of NCAA DII and strong NCAA DIII programs. 
 
Senior Micah Rysavy started the program off with a bang as he broke the 200 IM record that had stood since the 1988-89 season. The men's team added their second record-setting performance of the meet in the first event of the night session. The 200 Free Relay team of junior Ezra Billings, Rysavy, first year Sam LoCurto and junior Zach Martin set the program record by 0.29 seconds to finish in the top-10 of the event. 
 
MEN'S RECAP 
 
The men's team sent at least one swimmer to the final in all three individual events on Friday morning and notched six top-10 marks in program history. 
 
Rysavy put together the biggest performance on Friday morning. The senior finished in a tie for 19^th in the prelims with a record-setting time of 1:56.35. His time was a PR by nearly 1.5 seconds (1.45) and saw him move from fourth to first all-time in the event. He finished in 21^st place in the C Finals with a time of 1:56.74. 
 
First year Isaiah Frei placed 52^nd in the 200 IM prelims when he touched the wall in 2:07.54. 
 
Two Pioneers earned spots in the Finals of the 50 Free. Billings placed 11^th in the morning session with a mark of 21.03. Martin claimed the 24^th and final spot in the Finals with a PR time of 21.61. His time moved him from ninth place to sixth all-time in program history. In the Finals, Billings placed 11^th (third in the B Final) with a time of 20.95. Martin placed 24^th overall with a mark of 22.01. 
 
LoCurto just missed making the finals in the 50 Free (26^th place) with a PR time of 21.61. His time helped him crack the top-10 and move into a tie for seventh all-time. Senior Ian Holmberg finished 58^th (22.82) and sophomore Aidan Beatty (26.22) placed 77^th. Senior Aidan Ringel swam the event as an exhibition and finished in 23.33. 
 
In the first event of the day, junior Michael Spicer claimed a spot in the C Final of the 500 Free. Spicer swam the ninth-fastest time in program history with a mark of 4:51.17. Ringel placed 31^st with a mark of 4:54.69 and fellow senior Isaac Anderson took 49^th place with a final time of 5:07.54. Spicer finished 23^rd in the Finals with a time of 4:54.05. 
 
The Pioneers added their second program-record setting time in the 200 Free Relay. The combo of Billings, Rysavy, LoCurto and Martin posted a mark of 1:25.26 to break the program-record time that was set in the 2019-20 season. The quartet finished ninth out of 20 teams. Lewis & Clark's B Team of sophomore Colin Ziegler, Holmberg, Anderson and Ringel closed in 1:33.58 to finish 18^th. 
 
Men's swimming added their final top-10 mark in program history in the 400 Medley Relay. The group of Frei, Martin, Rysavy and Billings notched a time of 3:36.07 to move into seventh all-time. The quartet placed 14th overall in the event. The Pioneers second team of Holmberg, Anderson, Spicer and LoCurto posted a time of 3:41.29 to finish in 16^th place. 
 
WOMEN'S RECAP 
 
Women's Swimming recorded their top result in the final race of the day to cap off a strong opening day of racing. 
 
The Pioneers placed 19^th overall and swam the seventh-fastest time in program history in the 400 Medley Relay. The quartet of sophomores Angie Cummings and Dahlia Linkow and junior Aniqah Gaffoor and Elise Barton combined to touch the wall in 4:05.38. Lewis & Clark's second team of first year Claire Hurty, juniors AJ Schroeder and Jane Tewinkel and senior Ella Stephan finished in 27^th place with a time of 4:24.35. 
 
In the first relay of the night session, Barton, Gaffoor, Schroeder and Stephan teamed up to finish 22^nd in the 200 Free Relay with a mark of 1:43.47. The Pioneers second group of Cummings, Hurty, Tewinkel and sophomore Sophie Justus finished in 1:45.98 to place 26^th overall. 
 
Barton led eight women's swimmers in the 50 Free. She placed 45^th in a field of over 120 swimmers with a time of 25.04. Stephan placed second on the team and 84^th overall with a mark of 25.93. Gaffoor (26.04) and Schroeder (26.24) finished back-to-back in 88^th and 90^th places. Tewinkel (94^th place) finished in 26.45 and Justus ended the race in 26.85 to place 104^th. Junior Ella Gimon (28.37) and sophomore Ainsley Rios (30.10) placed 117^th and 123^rd overall. 
 
Hurty led five Lewis & Clark swimmers in the 500 Free. The first year recorded a time of 5:38.20 to place 67^thoverall. Cummings came in second on the team in 5:42.48 to finish 69^th. Justus claimed 74^th place with a mark of 5:51.64. Linkow (5:54.10) and senior Josephine Mann (7:32.00) finished in 76^th and 84^th.
 
Gimon was Lewis & Clark's lone swimmer competing in the 200 IM. She finished in 2:44.96 to place 71^st. Schroeder and Gaffoor each competed in the event as an exhibition. Schroeder closed in 2:23.45 to barely edge Gaffoor (2:23.97). 
 
BY THE NUMBERS

• Rysavy broke Matt Roth's record in the 200 IM which had stood since the 1988-89 season. Roth's record of 1:56.98 was tied for the second-longest standing record in program history. Rysavy broke the mark by 0.63 seconds. He moved from fourth place (1:57.80) to first (1:56.35) by shaving 1.45 seconds off his collegiate PR. 
• The Pioneers men's 200 Free Relay Team beat the previous program record time in the event (1:22.55) by 0.29 seconds. The quartet of Andrew Butcher, Kyle Monteleone, Erin Norman and JP Greener had held the record since the 2019-20 season. 
• The women's 400 Medley Relay team's time of 4:05.38 is seventh in program history and the best time by a Pioneers quartet since the 2018-19 season. 
• Spicer improved his PR time in the 500 Free by 2.20 seconds to move from 10^th to ninth all-time in the event. 
• Martin shaved off 0.16 seconds in the 50 Free to move from ninth to sixth. LoCurto dropped a whopping 2.20 seconds in the 50 Free to move from outside the top-10 to a tie for seventh all-time. Men's swimming now has three swimmers ranked in the top seven in program history on this year's team. 

WHAT'S NEXT 
 
Lewis & Clark will return to action for Day 2 of the Winter Collegiate Swim Invite on Saturday. The prelims begin at 9am, with the finals starting at 5pm. There is live video (FloSports) and live results (MeetMobile) available for purchase or you can check back on lcpioneers.com.