ATLANTA, GA – Three new University of Rochester school records were established by the men's swimming and diving team on day three of the University Athletic Association (UAA) Swimming & Diving Championships, hosted by Emory University at the Madeleine Jude Brown Aquatic Center.
 
Junior Max McClung had a hand in all three records, breaking his own school marks in the 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard backstroke, while also swimming on UR's record-breaking 200-yard medley relay during the evening session.
 
During the preliminaries, McClung shattered his own record, set at last year's UAA Championship, by nearly half a second, and earned a spot in Friday evening's 100-yard butterfly B-final with a 12th-place finish and 49.25-second time.
 
In the finals, McClung improved once again, swimming a time of 49.03 to earn 13th place overall.
 
McClung also earned a spot in the 100-yard backstroke final Friday night, notching the top spot in the C-final with a 17th-place finish in the prelims, clocking in at 50.55, while Venden Berge placed 28th in the event with a time of 54.30.
 
During the evening session, McClung bested his own school record once again, shaving one-hundredth of a second off his mark of 49.83 seconds set earlier this season at the Ithaca Bomber Invitational. McClung's time placed him 17th, but was the 12th quickest time overall in the event.
 
The third record of the day was the 200-yard medley relay that featured McClung, Brian Wong, Noah Falkenhagen and Ben Friedberg. The group touched the wall in 1:32.28, besting the previous record of 1:32.47, set at the Ithaca Bomber Invitational in December.
 
The record-setting 'A' relay was seventh overall, while the 'B' relay of Berge, Jack Zapp, Eli Muldoon and Jeremy Mah that swam a time of 1:35.41 ranked 15th in the field.
 
UR added another B-final qualifier in the 100-yard breaststroke, where Wong touched the wall in 56.29 seconds to earn the Yellowjackets' best finish of the day, 11th, and a spot in the evening's B-final. Wong paced a quartet of Yellowjackets who earned top-30 results in the 100-yard breaststroke, as Max Gjevre (28th, 58.92), Chad Buccella (29th, 1:01.54) and John Anastasi (30th, 1:01.82) rounded out the top-30 finishers in the prelims.
 
Wong's finish during the finals was 15th place, as the first-year touched the wall in 56.50 seconds.
 
Gjevre was also one of two Yellowjacket qualifiers for the C-final in the 400-yard IM, joining Zapp with top-24 results. Zapp earned Rochester's top spot in the prelims, finishing 19th with a time of 4:07.37, while Gjevre clocked in at 4:21.61, good for 23rd, with both swimmers heading to Friday evening's final.
 
During the finals, Zapp placed 20th overall with a 4:07.03 time, with Gjevre besting his prelim time by over five seconds, ending 23rd at 4:16.43.
 
Bryce Berkhof was UR's top finisher in the 200-yard freestyle, placing 29th with a time of 1:43.06, while Connor Kann came in 30th with a time of 1:43.28. Both times currently rank on UR's top-10 performances list, with Berkhof's time eighth, and Kann's ninth.
 
In the three-meter dive prelims, Max Wozinski fell just short of qualifying for the final, finishing ninth with a 380.10 score, while Brendan Habert came in 12th, scoring 330.95.
 
Wozinski's 11-dive score was a new personal best mark, with his top dive coming in the Inward 2 1/2 Somersault Tuck.
 
After three days of competition in the pool, Rochester sits in seventh place overall in the team standings with 392 points. Emory is in first place overall with 1,168 points, while NYU is right behind at 1,112.5 points. Chicago is the only other school above 1,000 points through Friday's action, sitting in third with 1,013 points.