Worcester, Mass. – The Brandeis University swimming and diving team competed on the first day of the WPI Gompei Invitational today with six top-10 individual finishes by the men and four top-20 performances by the women in individual events. The teams were tied for fifth out of the nine teams in the combined meet with 950 points.
 
TOP PERFORMERS – MEN

• Senior Benjamin Lee (Upton, Mass./Nipmuc Regional) had the team's top finish, placing second in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:55.10. He was about two seconds out of the top spot and held off third place by 0.84 seconds.
• Two Judges reached two A finals to earn a pair of top-10 finishes.
• Sophomore Peter Mou (Chestnut Hill, Mass./Brimmer and May School) was sixth in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.56 seconds, the team's second-best finish on the day. He was also 10^th in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 52.99 seconds.
• Senior Eric Xiao (College Station, Texas/AM Consolidated) placed eighth in the 100 fly with a time of 52.35 seconds and ninth in the 50 freestyle in 21.85 seconds.
• Sophomore Guy Toib (Ben Ami, Israel/Tsulam Tsur) rounded out the top-10 finishers with an eighth-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 2:19.06.
• In all, 15 different Judges scored individual points for the men.

TOP PERFORMERS – WOMEN

• On the women's side, five different Judges reached the evening session in five events.

• Seniors Audrey Teo (Palo Alto, Calif. / Palo Alto) and Jenna Wild (Evanston, Ill. / Evanston Township ) tied for the top performance of the meet with 16^th-place finishes. Teo's came in the 200 breaststroke with a mark of 2:34.71, while Wild's placement came in the 50 free with a time of 25.71 seconds.
• Teo added a 24^th-place finish in the 200 individual medley in 2:19.30, while Wild was 28^th in the 500 free in 5:31.45.
• Also reaching the 'B' finals were senior Sophia Denaro (Rockville, Md. / Holton-Arms), who was 18^th in the 200 breaststroke in 2:35.42, just ahead of senior Rebecca Kaplan (Fairfax, Va. / Robinson Secondary School), who was 19^th in the same event in 2:39.41. Kaplan added a scoring performance in the 200 IM with a time of 2:18.30 for 23^rd place.
• Senior D'arcy Anselmi (Pearl River, N.Y. / Pearl River) added a 30^th-place finish in the 100 fly with a time of 1:03.08.

TOP PERFORMANCES – RELAYS

• Two men's relays finished in the top 10 as well. The 200 medley team of junior Luke Abrahamson (Lincoln, R.I./Lincoln), Xiao, senior Solomon Skelton-Harris (Golden Valley, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong) and Mou were seventh with a time of 1:36.67.
• The group of Lee, Mou, first-year Santiago Salazar (Houston, Texas/James E. Taylor) and Skelton-Harris were seventh in the 800 free relay in 7:12.10.

UP NEXT

• The Judges return to action for Day 2 of the Gompei Invitational tomorrow at 9 a.m.