About The Team
The Elms College men’s swim team finished the 2011-12 season
with an overall record of 4-4-1 under eight-year head coach
Bill Tyler, had a total of seven different
swimmers set 26 school marks, and was 3-2-1 in its final six meets
of the season.
At the season-ending New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association (NEISDA) Championship, the Blazers placed eighth out of 12 teams.
Senior Garrett Brune (Lakeville, Mass.) earned a new school record in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:27.62) in the preliminaries, and then lowered that record in the finals with a time of 2:25.85. Brune placed 15th in the event.
In the finals, senior Nicholas Provost (Three Rivers, Mass.) placed 14th in the 200-yard butterfly (2:11.17), while sophomore Aaron Starke (Chicopee, Mass.) glided to a 14th place mark in the 100-yard individual medley with a time of 50.63.
Junior Mark Gehring (West Springfield, Mass.), Provost, sophomore Keegan Goan (Westbrook, Maine) and Starke powered the 400-yard freestyle relay team to a sixth place finish with a time of 3:23.01. Goan set a new school mark in the 50-yard butterfly with a time of 23.95 which was good enough for fourth place and lowered his school record from the preliminaries in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 53.67 and finished in fourth place earning him All-New England honors.
The 800-yard freestyle relay team of Gehring, Provost, junior Jonathan
Girard (West Springfield, Mass.) and
Brune registered a school record time of 7:50.94 and placed ninth
in the event, while Gehring's opening 200-yard time was also a
school record (1:51.54).
During the season, Elms also competed in the first-ever Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Invitational hosted by Simmons College and finished third at the two-day event. Goan was named to the GNAC all-tournament team in the 100-yard butterfly and the 50-yard butterfly following the invitational.