ONEONTA, N.Y. – The Hartwick Men's Swimming and Diving team opened their 2024-2025 campaign with a 3^rd place finish at the 18^th Annual Hartwick Relays.
 
FINAL SCORES
 

• SUNY Oneonta – 138
• SUNY New Paltz – 120
• Hartwick – 116
• Hobart – 42
• Marywood – 14

 
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
 

• The Hawks started the relays with Peyton Humphries (South Glens Falls, N.Y.) competing in the 1M and 3M diving events in the morning.
• Humphries finished the 3M event in 3rd place.
• Hartwick's "A" 400-yard Medley Relay team went back and forth throughout the heat with SUNY Oneonta and SUNY New Paltz as Evan Nezat (Jacksonville, N.C.) evened up the race in the second leg, swimming the breaststroke.
• Bryce Rogers (Fulton, N.Y.) gave the Hawks the lead in the butterfly leg, but New Paltz and Oneonta came on strong in the final freestyle leg to push Hartwick to third place.
• The Hawks finished 3^rd in the 3x100-yard backstroke relay but rebounded in the 3x100-yard Breaststroke relay.
• The trio of Karim Mohamed (New Hartford, N.Y.), Daniel Chung (Roslyn, N.Y.), and Hassan Abdelwahed (New Hartford, N.Y.) turned in a 1^st place performance.
• Sebastian Knowles (Plano, Tex.), Nezat, Rogers, and Cameron Drake (El Cajon, Calif.) kept Hartwick within striking distance, picking up a nine-second win in the 850-yard Crescendo Relay.
• The men would pick up another 1^st place finish in the 3x200-yard IM Relay, but it was not enough to overcome New Paltz down the stretch, as Hartwick finished just four points shy of 2^nd place.
• Abdelwahed earned swimmer of the meet honors for the Hawks for his performances in the 300-yard breaststroke relay, the 600-yard IM relay, the 400-yard free relay, and the 800-yard medley relay.

 
UP NEXT FOR THE HAWKS
 
The Hawks return to Moyer Pool for their first team scoring meet of the season as they host King's College in a dual meet at 1 PM on Saturday, October 19.
 
HARTWICK COLLEGE
 
One of the oldest colleges in the country, Hartwick has continually evolved for 225 years. The College's exciting new chapter is called FlightPath, a future-focused approach to education. Offering a distinctive blend of curricular, co-curricular and real-world work experiences, FlightPath builds on Hartwick's long history of integrating broad-based studies with experiential learning.
 
Hartwick College is a nationally ranked independent college of the arts and sciences located in picturesque Oneonta, NY, in the northern foothills of the Catskill Mountains. The College offers 35 courses of study leading to a bachelor of arts or bachelor of science degree, two master's degrees in the sciences, and a graduate certificate in nursing education. For more information, visit www.Hartwick.edu.