Wabash closed out the final day of its 2021 end-of-season swimming meet against DePauw University by breaking three more pool records as well as a freshman record to soundly defeat the Tigers by a score of 231-120.
 
The victory over DePauw is the first in head-to-head competition since 2015 and the first win in the Class of 1950 Natatorium since 2014.
 
Jan Dziadek started the last of the three-day competition by breaking his own natatorium record in the 100-yard individual medley with a winning time of 51.22. His effort Sunday bettered his previous record of 51.85. Will Melcher scored a second-place finish in the event with a time of 55.65. Ryan Sacco added a team point to the Wabash total with a fifth-place finish at 58.76.
 
The Wabash foursome of Wesley Slaughter, Caleb McCarty, Gavin Hill, and Dziadek took DePauw off the record board in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The Wabash quartet won the final event of the meet with a time of 3:05.19 to snap the pool record set by DePauw in 2014. Brandon Edwards, Daren Glore, Justin Dusza, and Isaac Temores placed second in the relay with a time of 3:10.46.
 
Glore added an individual victory in the 200-yard breaststroke with a winning time of 2:09.43. Temores placed second by touching the wall an eyelash behind in 2:09.44. Justin To placed fifth overall with a time of 2:19.82. Slaughter scored a first-place finish in the 100 freestyle by turning in a time of 46.47. McCarty completed the event in 47.27 to place third overall ahead of Edwards in fourth place at 47.47.
 
Dusza, Chaz Rhodes, and Marc Nicholson placed second, third, and fourth respectively in the 200-yard backstroke. Dusza finished the race in 1:52.84 while Rhodes turned in a time of 1:59.48. Nicholson posted a time of 2:03.47 good for fourth place.
 
Jacob Penrose placed third in the 200-yard butterfly by finishing in 1:57.30. Tyler Richmond scored a fifth-place finish with a time of 2:05.50.
 
Dziadek broke one more pool record in a time trial race at the conclusion of the meet. He posted a time of 1:54.26 to break the old pool mark of 1:55.18. Connor Baker broke the Wabash freshman record in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:41.47 in a time trial. The old mark stood at 4:42.47.
 
"It was great to close out our season the way we did," Wabash head coach Will Bernhardt said.  "It was a total team effort from start to finish. From the opening session until today, we were on fire. Coming off of a weird season due to the pandemic it was hard to predict how our men would handle the ups and downs of a difficult season with a large gap in training from Thanksgiving to mid-Januar I am proud that they took care of business while they were away and that diligence paid off today.
 
"It has been a long five seasons since that last dual meet win against DePauw so it was great to send our seniors out with a very big win! We broke a lot of records over the weekend but I am just happy that we were able to compete and do it with fans in the stands. We had fun and it was great to share that with our family and friends."