Men’s Swimming and Diving (for the week ending December 11, 2006)

Division III

Swimmer of the Week

Barrett Roberts—Wheaton College (pictured)
Senior, Portland, Maine

Roberts notched a trio of automatic qualifying times for the NCAA Division III Championship on Saturday while breaking the conference, school and pool records in each the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events. Roberts initially won the 50 race in 20.54, before eclipsing that time during the opening leg of the 200 free relay with a time of 20.48, which was 0.25 seconds faster than his prior conference, school and pool record entering the day. During his victorious 100 showing, Roberts finished in 45.30, which was nearly three seconds ahead of the second-place swimmer. Entering this weekend, the best 50 time in Division III this year had been 20.63, which he twice surpassed, while he matched the third-best 100 time.