ITHACA, NY – The University of Rochester men's swimming and diving team broke three school records competing on the second day of the Bomber Invitational, hosted by Ithaca College inside the Kelsey Partridge Bird Natatorium.
 
Brian Wong got UR's record-breaking day started in Saturday morning's prelims, taking home first place in the 100-yard breaststroke with a new school record of 55.35 seconds, more than a second faster than the previous record set back in 2017. Wong then took second in the evening's final, clocking in at 55.87.
 
Max Gjevre joined Wong in the A-final, finishing eighth (58.98), while David Kilway scored 12th place in the B-final with his 1:01.36 time, and Chad Buccella and Phillip Brooke clocked in at 1:00.77 and 1:01.78, respectively, to take 17th and 18th in the C-final.
 
Max McClung then broke his own school record in the 100-yard backstroke, beating his previous time set at the 2024 UAA Championships by more than half a second. McClung finished atop the podium in the 100-yard backstroke, touching the wall in 49.83 seconds, while Venden Berge finished 13th in the B-final with a time of 54.88.
 
Rochester would see its third and final record fall on the evening in the final event of the day, the 400-yard medley relay. McClung, Wong, Eli Muldoon and Nate Attwell combined to shave .25 seconds off the previous record, clocking in at 3:24.44, good for second place, while UR's 'B' relay of Berge, Jack Zapp, Noah Falkenhagen and Connor Kann finished eighth at 3:31.69.
 
UR's 200-freestyle relay teams kicked off the evening finals with a pair of top-eight results, as Michael Scholz, Falkenhagen, Jeremy Mah and Ben Friedberg finished in third place (1:25.02), while Kann, Muldoon, Johnathan Wu and Attwell swam to an eighth-place result with their 1:27.35 time.
 
Brendan Habert was the Yellowjackets' top finisher in the one-meter dive, scoring over 400 points for the first time in his career and taking fifth in the evening's final with a 422.20 second.
 
Rochester then had seven swimmers compete in the 200-yard freestyle, including a pair in the A-final. Bryce Berkhof was UR's top finisher, placing the seven 'Jackets with a seventh-place finish and time of 1:43.78, while Scholz finished right behind him in the A-final in eighth place, clocking in at 1:44.53.
 
In the B-final, Attwell scored a ninth-place finish with his time of 1:44.69, while Kann and Mah placed 14th and 15th, respectively, with times of 1:46.09 ad 1:46.53. Then in the C-final, Wu clocked in at 1:48.61, good for 22nd, while Friedberg came in 24th (1:52.26).
 
In the 400-yard medley, Zapp notched one of Rochester's seven top-five finishes on the evening, placing second in the A-final at 4:06.88, while Gjevre took 13th in the B-final, touching the wall in 4:26.75.
 
Then in the final individual event of the evening, Scholz added another top-five result to UR's tally, swimming to a fourth-place result with a time of 21.26, pacing five Yellowjackets in the top 24. Friedberg finished first in the B-final for a ninth-place finish overall with a 21.06 time, while Falkenhagen (21.60), Mah (22.11) and Wong (22.19) all swam in the C-final, placing 17th, 22nd and 23rd, respectively.
 
Heading into the final day of competition, Rochester sits in fourth place with 728 points, with Hamilton College in third with 741, Middlebury in second with 807, and host Ithaca atop the team standings with 959 points.
 
The Yellowjackets will wrap up their final slate on the final day of the Ithaca College Bomber Invitational, beginning on Sunday, Dec. 8 at 9:00 a.m.