Men’s Swimming Has 13 Advance at Terrapin Cup

Jason Brisson Advances to Championship Finals in Two Events

11/17/06 4:40PM

COLLEGE PARK, MD - William and Mary’s men’s swimming and diving team has 13 entries in tonight’s finals races at the Terrapin Cup Invitational after an impressive morning session. Events swum this morning included the 200 freestyle, 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 100 breaststroke, and 100 backstroke.

Sophomore Jason Brisson (Richmond, Va.) will compete in the championship finals in two events, after swimming 4:06.35 in the 400 IM and 57.44 in the 100 breast. His time in the breaststroke in the third-fastest performance in school history. Jeff Collier (Salem, Va.) and Alex Jendzejec (Reston, Va.) will be in the consolation finals of 400 IM, after swimming 4:10.34 and 4:11.52, respectively. Also in a consolation final is Shawn Matthews (Rumson, N.J.), who swam 53.16 in the preliminaries of the 100 back.

David Mangini (Inver Grove Heights, Minn.) and Marshall Raiskin (Apopka, Fla.) will each swim in two bonus consolation races. Mangini timed 4:14.46 in the 400 IM and 54.11 in the 100 back, while Raiskin turned in efforts of 4:16.57 and 54.14 in those same races. Freshman Kevin Gallagher (Bridgewater, N.J.) will also be in 100 back bonus race, after posting a time of 54.12 in the preliminaries.

Senior Peter King (Falls Church, Va.) advanced to the bonus consolation race of the 100 fly with a personal-best time of 51.60 seconds, which is the eighth-fastest time in school history. Senior captain Andrew Carberry (Talbott, Tenn.) will be in the bonus race of the 100 breast after swimming 59.82. In the 200 free, senior Nick Duda (Vienna, Va.) advanced to the bonus consolation finals with a time of 1:44.21, and Gallagher (1:44.44) and Joe DeBiase (Moon Township, Pa.) (1:44.53) were the two alternates, eligible to race this evening if anyone above them scratches.

Finals in these events, plus the 200 medley relay and 800 free relay, start tonight at 6:30 p.m.