Bucknell University Athletics
Men's Swimming Team Finishes 39th in Mid-Major Mythical National Championship
3/21/2001 7:00:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving
March 21, 2001
LEWISBURG, PA - Bucknell University's men's swimming team placed 39th in CollegeSwimming.com's "mythical" national championship.
The ranking is based upon a compilation of all the mid-major conference championship meet results from the 2001 season. Junior Chris Neary (Philadelphia, Pa.) earned the Bison team its four points with a "mythical" 13th-place finish in the 100-butterfly.
Institutions from the following conferences competed in the mythical championship: America East, Big Sky, Big South, Big West, Colonial, Ivy/EISL, Metro Atlantic, Mid-America, Mid-Continent, Midwest, Mid-Eastern, Missouri Valley, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Sun Belt, Trans America and West Coast.
The Bucknell men finished the season with a 7-2 mark in dual meet competition and a third-place finish at the 2001 Patriot League Championships.
CollegeSwimming.com Mythical Mid-Major Championship
Men 1. Harvard 504.5 2. Princeton 332.5 3. Pacific 271.5 4. Eastern Michigan 244.5 5. Miami (Ohio) 231.5 6. American 206 7. Calif.-Santa Barbara 192 8. Brown 187 9. Yale 153 10. Southern Illinois 141 34. Army 8 37. Lehigh 5 39. Bucknell 4
