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Wildcats Dominate Men's Side of the NU Swimming Relays
10/28/2001 12:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
Oct. 28, 2001
EVANSTON, Ill. - Northwestern's men's swimming team won each of 11 relay events at the co-ed NU Relays at the Norris Aquatic Center Sunday. The Wildcats won each race by a margin of at least five seconds.
The men's team finished with 220 points, ahead of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (168) and Illinois-Chicago (120). UIC was forced to withdraw from several events due to multiple ill swimmers.
Head coach Bob Groseth praised the performance of sophomores Tony Swanson (Coon Rapids, Minn./Coon Rapids) and Mark Hamming (Lake Forest, Ill/Lake Forest).
Swanson, swimming leadoff in the 400 Medly and the 800 Free, helped each of those teams finish more than ten seconds ahead of the competition.
"I like leading off. It's one of the two best positions in the relay," Swanson said. "The leadoff stroke in the medley gives me a chance to do backstroke."
While NU's women's team had their own family feud going on-head coach Jimmy Tierney is the brother of Indiana's head coach Dorsey Tierney-the men's team also had head-to-head family competition.
Groseth changed the order of the 300 breast relay so NU freshman Louis Torres (Morton Grove, Ill./Niles West) could swim directly against his older brother, UIC senior Paul Torres. The younger Torres defeated his brother by .02 as NU pulled out the victory.
"It's good to see where I am against him," Louis Torres said of swimming against his brother. "He tells me I do a good job when I beat him, he really encourages me."
NU is next in action Nov. 8 at Wisconsin in Madison.
