Trinity Swimming & Diving Welcomes Newest Bantams

The Trinity College swimming and diving team welcomed the class of 2015 to campus this past week. 

The men’s team adds Sam Ruddock III (Cleveland, OH), a sprint/mid-distance freestyler who should make an immediate impact with incoming times of 21.90, 47.70 and 1:44.38 in the 50, 100 and 200 Free. Alex Kurose (East Greenwich, RI) will add depth in the sprint freestyle events as well as the butterfly sprints and has potential to push our sprint free relays to new heights with top incoming times of 22.97 and 49.83 in the 50 & 100 Free. Isak Kurbasic (Lousiville, KY) should excel in the 100 fly with an incoming time of 54.30 and should add depth in the breast stroke events with times of 29.98, 1:03.32, and 2:24.08 in the 50, 100, & 200 distances. Rounding out the men’s Freshmen class is Ryan McConnell (Merion Station, PA) a distance freestyler who will push our ever improving distance group to even greater heights with incoming times of 5:03.45, 10:18.12, and 17:51.00 in the 500, 1000, and 1650 Free distances.                                               

The Bantam women welcome Audrey Butler, who will be competing for a NESCAC championship title in her rookie season as her incoming 50 breast time of 30.63 puts her 5th among returning NESCAC swimmers and only .48 seconds off of last years top finisher. Butler should also be strong in the 100 breast as her time of 1:07.68 puts her 9th among returning NESCAC swimmers. Butler will also be an asset on the medley and sprint freestyle relays. Danielle Carp (Wenham, MA) will be very strong in the 100 and 200 Fly with times of 1:01.25 and 2:22.15 respectively and should be a strong force in our mid-distance freestyle groups as well. Lexi Moroney (Manchester, MA) is a sprint freestyler who should help push our sprint group and sprint relays to the next level in the NESCAC as she boasts times of 25.4 in the 50, 55.7 in the 100 and 2:02 in the 200. Rounding out this years group of first year women is Megan Darnley holds the 1 meter diving record at her high school. Megan will bring much needed depth to our women’s diving team and will have the opportunity to learn from the best female diver Trinity has had in junior Emily Johnson.                                          

Rounding out the newbies is first year Assistant Coach, Justin Anderson, who joins Trinity after a year assisting at his alma mater the University of Mary Washington. It’s an exciting time here at Trinity as we are looking to have another record breaking season and looking to bring in our best recruiting class yet.