The Basics
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Mangione Pool at the Fitness & Aquatics Center
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's swim team broke a school record, posted eight career-bests and five NCAA B times in the first session of the annual Thomas Murphy Invitational Friday night at Loyola.  
 
Quoting Coach Armstrong
• "I am amazed by how fast this team swam tonight. After the toughest week of training we've put in this season, the team responded with some gutsy and fast swims, highlighted by a team record in the 400 Medley Relay! It will be important to be on top of details tomorrow as we hope for more fast swims."
 
Top Finishers
• Hopkins kicked off the night in record-breaking fashion and first and third-place finishes in the 400 Medley Relay. The team of junior Steven Rua and seniors Max Chen, Jeff Vitek and Noah Corbitt swam a 3:15.37 to win the win the relay and break the school record by just one-hundredth of a second. Their time was also an NCAA B time as was Rua's lead-off leg of 49.77.  Senior Dylan Wachenfeld, junior Kyle Wu, sophomore Reef Ide and graduate student Nat Davenport took third place with a time of 3:21.48.
• Sophomore Kellen Roddy then won the 500 Free with a career-best time of 4:33.74. Freshman Jonik Surprenant followed in third place with a 4:36.36.
• Chen led a quartet of Blue Jays that finished second through fifth in the 200 IM. He posted an NCAA B time of 1:50.89 to finish in second place. Rua clocked in with a career-best and NCAA B time of 1:51.31. Wu placed third in 1:51.91 and freshman Eric Ji placed fourth with a time of 1:52.10.
• Davenport then finished in second place in the 50 Free as he clocked in at 20.77.
• The Blue Jays wrapped up the first session with second and fourth-place finishes in the 800 Free Relay. Wu, Ji, Wachenfeld and Corbitt took second with an NCAA B time of 6:42.62. Rua, senior Collin Hughes, freshman Daniel Byrnes and senior Mitchell Simmons finished in 6:52.24 for fourth place.
 
Up Next
• The Thomas Murphy Invitational resumes tomorrow morning at 10:00 am, while the third and final session is scheduled to begin at 3:00 pm.