Wabash College swimmers will participate in three events tonight in the finals of the first day of the 2004 North Coast Athletic Conference Swimming and Diving Championships. The three-day event began Thursday morning at the C.T. Branin Natatorium in Canton, Ohio.
The Little Giants opened the preliminary round on Thursday by finishing fourth in the 200-yard freestyle relay. The quartet of Stephen Birrer (SR/Indianapolis, IN/Brownsburg), Kyle Weaver (FR/Portland, IN/Jay County), Brandon Peacock (SR/Crawfordsville, IN/Crawfordsville), and Colin Fahey (JR/Indianapolis, IN/Bishop Chatard) finished with a time of 1:27.17, just under two seconds behind the top qualifying time by Kenyon (1:25.83).
Senior Brett Findley (Bargersville, IN/Franklin Community) (left) became the only Wabash individual to advance to the finals, finishing eighth in the 500-yard freestyle after swimming the race in 4:48.14. He was also part of the 400-yard medley relay team that also advanced to the finals. Findley joined Matt Perkins (SO/Indianapolis, IN/Brownsburg), Ben Hewitt (JR/Greenwood, IN/Center Grove), and Birrer to take third in the race, earning a spot in the finals with a time of 3:39.28.
The finals are set to begin at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday evening. Friday's preliminaries start at 10 a.m. The 200 medley relay, 400 individual medley, 100 butterfly, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, 800 freestyle relay, women's one-meter and men's three-meter diving will be contested on Friday.
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