Complete Results

The Basics
• Location: Chapel Hill, NC • Koury Natatorium
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's swim team kicked off the three-day Janis Hape Dowd Nike Invitational Friday night with some strong swims against Division I competition.
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
• "It was a tremendous night here in Chapel Hill. We had several top-8 finishes and added some swims to the NCAA squad. What was most exciting was seeing a season's worth of hard work result in so many life time best swims."
 
Top Finishers
• Hopkins opened the night with a third-place finish in the 200 Free Relay. Junior Jasper Van Cauwelaert, sophomore Marcelo Lauzurique, senior Peter Lazorchak and sophomore Noah Frassrand swam a 1:25.51.
• Freshman Mitchell Simmons led a contingent of Blue Jays in the 500 Free with a fourth-place finish. He clocked in with an NCAA B and career-best time of 4:32.63. Sophomore Riley Mears placed sixth with a career-best time of 434.28. Senior Erik Bostrom finished in ninth place in 4:39.61 and junior Matthew Garza took 11^th in 4:45.31.
• Lauzurique then took fourth with a career-best time of 1:53.54 in the 200 IM. Frassrand followed closely in fifth place with a time of 1:53.95. Van Cauwelaert touched in 1:54.04 to finish in sixth place.
• Lazorchak swam a 21.28 to place seventh in the 50 Free, with sophomore Dillon De Priest took 10^th in 21.75.
• The Blue Jays ended the first day with first and second-place finishes in the 400 Medley Relay. Mears, Simmons, Garza and Frassrand swam a 3:30.65 to take the top spot. Mears turned in a career-best time of 53.18 in this lead-off leg. Lazorchak, Van Cauwelaert, De Priest and Bostrom combined for a 3:32.61 to finish in second.
 
Up Next
• The Janis Hape Dowd Nike Invitational continues on Saturday, February 9 with preliminaries of the 200 Medley Relay at 10:00 am. The finals are scheduled to begin at 6:00 pm.