Marco Conati, Kendall Hollimon Give CMS Men's Swimming and Diving Sweep of SCIAC Weekly Honors

CLAREMONT, Calif. - Junior Marco Conati was named the SCIAC Men's Swimmer of the Week, and senior Kendall Hollimon took the SCIAC Men's Diver of the Week honor, as the CMS men's swimming and diving team earned both awards for events through Sunday, Dec. 9.

Conati and Hollimon helped CMS to an impressive 193-160 win over Pomona-Pitzer in a battle of the top two programs in the SCIAC. The Sagehens came in ranked No. 9 in the nation, ahead of No. 13 CMS, but the Stags were able to assert themselves as the team to beat in league competition in 2019-20. 

Conati had an especially memorable two-day meet as he competed in six events, three individual and three relay, and won all six, all of which resulted in new Haldeman Pool records. Individually, he won the 50 free, the 100 free and the 100 fly, while he swam the butterfly leg of both medley relays and the first leg of the 400 free relay, which capped off the two-day meet. 

In the 50 free on Friday, Conati just edged out teammate Andreas Roeseler, winning 20.79 to 20.82 as the two Stags finished 1-2 in the race, while also edging the previous facility record by seven-hundredths of a second. On Saturday, he took a convincing win in the 100 fly, touching the wall in 48.46 to break the old facility record by .35. He then capped off his individual swims with a 45.99 in the 100 free, breaking the old Haldeman record by .09 and winning the race by .12. 

Hollimon, meanwhile, continued in his quest to end his career with an individual national championship by taking the one-meter and three-meter diving events with new pool records. He dominated in the three-meter with 362.75 points, winning by almost 50 and breaking his own pool record by just over 30 points, and added a close win in the one-meter with 310.20 points, a margin of just under nine points, and an improvement of 32 points over the pool record. 

Conati becomes the third different CMS swimmer to win the honor this year, joining first-years Anderson Breazeale and Joe Zales, who won on Nov. 11 and Nov. 18, respectively. Hollimon, meanwhile, took the Diver of the Week honor for the third time, after also winning on Oct. 28 and Nov. 18.

CMS will be back in action in one month after a break for the exams and the holiday season, resuming competition on January 10 at the Cal Baptist Distance Meet.