Monday was not only memorable for Missouri Military Academy’s senior swimmers but for a few record-breaking Colonels.
In MMA’s Senior Night on Monday, the Colonels defeated Marshall …
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Monday was not only memorable for Missouri Military Academy’s senior swimmers but for a few record-breaking Colonels.
In MMA’s Senior Night on Monday, the Colonels defeated Marshall 103-38 thanks to nine first-place finishes and four school records being broken. Senior Anthony
Melick won three events and had a hand in breaking two records — the 200 individual medley and 400 freestyle relay with Tiago Ruas Deluca, Paulo Pereira De Abreu Donabella.
Melick set a new 200 IM record earlier this season — 2:29.39 — but bested it Monday with a time of 2:27.53. As for the 400 free relay, the quartet swam to a first-place time of 4:10.95, which bested the time of 4:11.70 set in 1985.
Ruas Deluca won three events, setting new records in all of them. Besides the 400 free relay, he swam to a time of 55.95 in the 100 free to outpace the 1980 time of 57.7 and finished the 200 free with a time of 1:59.73, which bested the 1979 time of 2:06.90.
Pereira De Abreu Donabella won the 50 free with a time of 27.41, senior Blake Mills won the 400 free with a time of 7:31.48, Melick came close to breaking his own 100 backstroke record with a first-place time of 1:08.43 (1:08.29 is still the record), Pereira De Abreu Donabella won the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:15.77, and John Carlos Ahuja won the one-meter diving competition with a score of 131.30 points.
Senior Benjamin Huynh finished second on the 200 medley relay team with William Vieira, Brayden Phelps and Justyn Daigle. Huynh was also third in the 400 free.
