Strong final night pushes Westminster men to PAC Swimming & Diving title 2/18/2018 12:16:21 AM Saturday's results Full results Championship central GROVE CITY, Pa. (pacathletics.org) – The Westminster College men locked up their fourth-straight Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Swimming & Diving Championship Saturday evening. The conference championships were held at Grove City College’s James E. Longnecker Competition Pool. Longnecker Pool has been the home of the league’s swimming and diving championships since 1990. The team title is Westminster’s ninth. Westminster led the five-team championship field with 908 points. Grove City was the runner-up with 903 points and was followed by Saint Vincent College in third (687), Washington & Jefferson College in fourth (248) and Bethany College in fifth (185). PAC Swimmer of the Year honors went to Saint Vincent junior Jacob Davis (Pittsburgh, Pa. | Brashear). He is the first-ever conference swimmer of the year in program history. Saturday, Davis won the 100 free with a Saint Vincent, pool and PAC Championship record and NCAA Division III B-cut time of 44.36 seconds. He also anchored Saint Vincent’s winning 400 free relay that set a school record with a time of 3 minutes, 5.00 seconds. Other members of the relay included freshman Zach Baum (Derry, Pa. | Derry Area), freshman John Martin (Canonsburg, Pa. | Pa. Home School (Peters Township)) and senior Alex Bolen (Pitcairn, Pa. | Gateway). Friday, Davis won the 200 free with a B-cut time of 1:39.88. Thursday, Davis won his second-straight PAC title in the 50 free with a school record and B-cut time of 20.29 seconds. He also swam on the Bearcats’ winning 200 free relay (1:22.88). Westminster freshman Connor May (Highlands Ranch, Colo. | Glacier Park) was named the PAC’s Diver of the Year, becoming the first-ever conference diver of the year in program history. Thursday, May won the 11-dive, three-meter event with a score of 573.75 points. His score established new pool and PAC open records and surpassed W&J’s Pat Pyrch’s PAC Championship record score of 573.40, set on February 28, 1983. Saturday, May won the 11-dive, one-meter event with a score of 527.20. His score established a new pool record and also surpassed the PAC open and PAC Championship record score of 501.72, set by John Carroll University’s Doug Virden on Feb. 28, 1978. May met the Division III regional qualifying standard in each event. PAC Swimming Coach of the Year honors went to Grove City 16th-year head coach Dave Fritz. Westminster’s Heath Calhoun, in his fourth year with the Titans, claimed the PAC’s Diving Coach of the Year award. It is his first coach of the year citation. The PAC's Sportsmanship team included: Bethany junior Cheyne Stresky (Oxford, Mich. | Oxford), Grove City senior Bretty Gwynn (Irwin, Pa. | Hempfield), Saint Vincent's Baum, W&J senior Owen Hanna (Reading, Pa. | Governor Mifflin) and Westminster senior Tyler Sheets (Lock Haven, Pa. | Central Mountain). The PAC’s Sportsmanship Teams were established to recognize student-athletes who have distinguished themselves through demonstrated acts of sportsmanship and ethical behavior and are an ongoing effort to recognize and encourage positive sportsmanship among all of conference teams. Grove City freshman Calvin Brouwer (Nevada City, Calif. | Isaiah 40 Prep.) opened Saturday's finals by winning the 1650 in a time of 15:48.48. That time broke the previous pool, meet and conference records. Brouwer provisionally qualified for the Division III Championships with his time. Bethany's Stresky swam to the PAC title in the 200 backstroke with a time of 51.11. He is Bethany’s first swimmer to win an individual PAC title since 2003, when former Bison Kenko Nagai won the 100 breaststroke. Stresky is the first swimmer or diver to win a league championship since 2004, when former Bison Joe Kennedy won both the one-meter and three-meter diving events. Westminster junior David Peffer (Ellwood City, Pa. | Riverside), the 200 backstroke champion in 2016 and 2017, was the runner-up (1:51.48). Sophomore Ben Slate (Pfafftown, N.C. | Homeschooled) won the 200 breaststroke for the second-straight year after posting a winning time of 2:06.74. Saint Vincent’s Baum won the 200 fly in a school record time of 1:53.47. Division III’s regional diving championships are scheduled for Friday-Saturday, March 2-3. PAC divers that have achieved the regional qualifying standards will participate in the Region 4 (Northeast/South) event, which will be hosted by Ithaca College. Qualifiers for this year’s Division III Championships are scheduled to be announced at 10 a.m. (EST) on Wednesday, February 28. The Division III Championships are scheduled for Wednesday-Saturday, March 21-24 and are being held at the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis. The four-day championship event is being hosted by Franklin College and the Indiana Sports Corporation.