PHILADELPHIA, PA – The Johns Hopkins men's swim team opened the 2024-25 season with a 161-126 win at La Salle. The Blue Jays won eight of the 14 swimming events and four freshmen grabbed their first career wins in the season debut.
 
Hopkins kicked off the first meet of the year with second and third-place finishes in the 400 Medley Relay. Junior Bryce Lloyd, freshman Jonathan Wang, junior Avery Clapp and graduate student Jay Heymann swam a 3:28.25 to take second. The team of freshman Aden Li, senior Eric Ji, sophomore Rad Couture and junior Christian Mayr followed in third with a time of 3:30.00.
 
Freshman Jack Cornish then raced to a win in the 1000 Free as he won by more than nine seconds with a time of 9:56.25. Freshman Josiah March took second place as he finished in 10:05.65 and sophomore Will Dunlap took third in 10:21.64. The Blue Jays then took second through fourth in the 200 Free, led by freshman Larkin Helman with a swim of 1:43.05. Sophomore Adam Sandid finished in third (1:47.11) and senior Daniel Byrnes placed fourth (1:48.89).
 
Lloyd grabbed the first of his two wins on the day as he clocked in a 51.33 to win the 100 Back. Clapp followed in third place with a time of 52.92. Senior Joe Castagno led a trio of Jays that finished second through fourth in the 100 Breast, as he finished in 59.85. Wang (1:00.01) and graduate student Julian Maycock (1:00.78) followed closely in third and fourth.
 
Li picked up his first career win as he clocked in at 1:56.56 in the 200 Fly. Couture finished in second with a time of 1:59.50. Mayr then won the 50 Free as he touched in 21.7 to edge out La Salle's Austin Wakefield by 0.11 seconds. Sandid (48.08) and Heymann (48.29) then went one-two in the 100 Free as the two finished just 0.21 seconds apart.
 
Lloyd completed his sweep of the backstroke and led a Blue Jay sweep of the top three spots. Lloyd finished in 1:53.54, followed by Clapp in 1:57.67 and freshman Dylan Jewett in 1:59.07. Ji then took second in the 200 Breast as he finished in 206.28. Castagno grabbed third place (2:11.52) and junior Matthew Hartshorn took fourth 2:13.54).
 
March earned his first win as he led the field in the 500 Free with a swim of 4:49.67 and won by nearly five seconds. Cornish finished in second place in 4:54.47 and senior Jonik Surprenant placed third in 4:56.64. LI then placed second in the 100 Fly as he finished in 51.42. Couture followed in third (52.92) and Dunlap took fourth (53.78).
 
Helman became the fourth freshman to earn an individual win as he touched in 1:52.87 for first in the 200 IM. Ji took third place with a time of 1:57.33. Hopkins ended the day with second and fourth-place finishes in the 200 Free Relay. Wang, Clapp, Heymann and Mayr combined for a time of 1:25.55 for second. The team of Couture, sophomore Andrew Gilbert, Li and Sandid finished in 1:27.21, just three-hundredths of a second out of third place.
 
Hopkins returns to action in two weeks at William & Mary.
 
Notes: This was the first meeting between Hopkins and La Salle since December 1981 • The win is the Blue Jays' first over the Explorers since December 1980.