BALTIMORE, Md. – The VMI men's and women's swimming and diving teams clocked many season and personal-best times Saturday, including two new school records, at the 2022 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Open Championships, hosted by the U.S. Naval Academy in LeJeune Hall.

The men's 200 medley relay team broke the program record in 1:32.94 to take 10th. Chino Vera set a personal record in the 50 back leading off the relay and was joined by Chase Lane, Tyler Blackwell and Dalton Cosner. Lane set a new VMI record with a time of 56.30 in the 100 breast prelims, and finished 15^th. Vera also finished 15^th in the 100 back in 52.45 after swimming a 51.48 in the preliminaries. Bridger Thurston scored 202.40 points in the 3 meter dive to take seventh.

Ethan Griffith placed 13^th in the 400 IM in a season-best 4:06.01, while Ryan Cooper had a season-best 4:11.84 in the event to place 17th. Connor Doyle was 17^th in the 200 free in 1:43.21. The 800 freestyle relay team of Cooper, Conner Jorgensen, Sam Chopper and Griffith placed sixth in 7:04.63, with Cooper's 1:47.24 in the opening leg setting a personal best.

The women's 200 medley relay team of Isabella DeCosta, Anne Bowles, Jillian Maher and Kate Taylor finished 12^th in the finals in 1:52.82. London Yerasimides finished in the 1 meter dive with a score of 177.75.

Sunday's competition will begin at 9 a.m.