Matthew Williams – Men’s Swimming
(3/14 – 3/20) - For the fourth-straight season, the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps men's swimming team secured a top-10 finish (10th) at the NCAA Division III Championships. Junior Matthew Williams (CMC) had a major impact for the Stags during the week as he won the NCAA Division III national championship in the 100-yard backstroke and did so in program and conference record-setting time (47.57). The individual title is the first for the Stags since 2005 (Andrew Cox – 50 free) and first in the 100 back since 1983 (Doug Jones). The following day, Williams nearly won a second national title, this time in the 200 backstroke (1:46.11). He touched the wall in second place, one-one hundredth of a second slower than Denison's Jackson Lindell.
Williams, a Bellevue, Wash. native had seven combined All-America (top-8) and honorable mention All-America (top-16) swims during the four-day NCAA Championships, either in an individual event or as a member of a CMS relay team:
100 back (1st), 200 back (2nd), 200 freestyle relay (5th)
Honorable mention:
100 fly (15th), 200 medley relay (9th), 400 medley relay (13th), 400 free relay (15th)
Watch 100 backstroke national championship swim
Watch 100 backstroke postmeet interview
By Chris Watts
Director of Athletics Communication
Claremont McKenna College
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