GENESEO, N.Y. - The men's swimming and diving team honored its seven seniors before their meet against Buffalo St. on Saturday afternoon, and then went out and put on a dominant performance by breaking seven pool records.

The Knights kicked things off with the team of Griffin Merkling, Jake Nielsen, Mark Crocker, and Jordan Nielsen setting a new pool, school, and conference record in the 200 yard medley relay with a time of 1:30.47. Senior Sam Matthews kept the record setting pace going in the 200 yard freestyle, breaking the pool record with a time of 1:40.11. In the 100 backstroke, Jake Cimorelli celebrated his senior day meet by finishing with a time of 51.01 for a new pool record.

In addition to being a part of the record setting 200 medley relay team, senior Mark Crocker added two more record setting performances to his day. He finished the 50 yard freestyle in 20.97 for a pool record and recorded a time of 49.67 in the 100 yard butterfly for his third record-setting swim of the day. Ben Ludlow got in on the action by recording two pool records of his own in the 200 backstroke (1:53.40), and the 400 IM (4:06.86).

On the diving side, Trent Makowiec continued his monstrous season by setting pool records in both the one and three meter dives (11 dives). He tallied a score of 589.20 in the one meter dive, and then 599.65 in the three meter dive.

Seniors Connor Towers, Alec Eng, Jack Cimorelli, Mark Crocker, Tyler Bischoping, Kaleb Hotaling, and Sam Matthews were all honored in a brief pre-meet ceremony, where they also chose to honor a distinguished faculty member who impacted their career at Geneseo beyond academic instruction as a part of Faculty Recogniton Day. For a gallery of photos from the ceremony and the meet, click here.

For the full results from the meet against Buffalo St., click here!