Men's Swimming brings home second ever regional title, Women Take Second Place

BUFFALO, NY… This past weekend, Genesee's men's and women's swimming and diving program took to the pool to compete for regional championship titles.

The men's team had a close battle with Jamestown Community College the whole weekend. Points would go back and forth between Jamestown and our Genesee team at the end of each session. The title would come home with the Men's team, and a final score of 502 points, making it only the second time in program history that the men's team has won the regional title(2016-17). Jamestown followed closely with 472 points, coming in second by a mere 30 points.

The women battled for second place as Jamestown Community College would take the crown with a total of 587 points. The ladies would ultimately tie for runner-up with Fashion Institute of Technology, both finishing with 329 points. With Fashion Institute of Technology not being a part of Region 3, the runner-up title would fall into the hands of our women's team.

Throughout the entire meet, both men's and women's teams took multiple top-2 podium finishes.

Macrae Haluszczak would bring home 4 total first-place finishes in the 50 back, 100 back, 1000 free, & 100 IM). Breaking the 100 IM program record as well. Haluszczak, the High Point winner for Genesee, would come to a three-way tie with Roxanne Lothian from Jamestown and Antonina Dudek from FIT for the swimmer of the meet title. The tie breaker going to Lothian from JCC.

Mikayla Yohon would show a strong outing, finishing second in the 50, 100 & 200 Butterfly, and breaking the program record in the 50-yard fly.

Logan Amy dominated through the entire competition, taking home a total of 4 first-place finishes in the 200 IM, 400 IM, 100 Breast, and 200 Breast. Not only would Amy finish as the High Point scorer, but he would ultimately take home a regional record in the 50 breaststroke with a time of 26.90. Amy would break this record in the 50 split of his 100 yard breast stroke. Becoming the only male Genesee swimmer who ever held a regional record.

Amy would also demolish the longest-standing record in the 100 yard Breaststroke, previously broken in January of 2000. Now sitting at 58.07.

Caleb Henning followed closely behind with 3 first-place finishes (500,1000, & 1650) and a 2 second place finish in the 200 free. Owen Dunbar also took home 2 first place titles in the 100 fly and 200 fly.

Multiple school records were broken as well, going as follows:
Logan Amy
50 Breast - 26.90 (Region Record)
100 Breast(26 year old record) - 58.07
50 Back - 25.32
Macrae Haluszczak
50 Free - 25.22
100 IM - 1:04.24
Mikayla Yohon
50 Fly - 27.85

Both teams look to finish the season even stronger with sights set on the National Junior College Athletic Association swimming and diving national championships take place in Fort Pierce, Florida, at Indian River Community College starting Wednesday, March 4th, and running until Saturday, March 7th.