Every Tuesday throughout the swimming & diving season, the NESCAC Swimming & Diving Performers of the Week will be announced. 

NESCAC Men’s Swimming & Diving Performer of the Week | Weekly Release
Ryan Kam – Trinity – So. – Newton Center, Mass.
Kam led the Bantams to a pair of wins over Vassar and Wesleyan. The sophomore posted first-place finishes in every event he swam and recorded three lifetime bests. Against Vassar, Kam helped the Bantams win the 200 medley relay, splitting a lifetime best of 25.40 on the backstroke leg. Kam also won the 200 backstroke (1:58.68) and 200 butterfly (2:00.23) with lifetime best times. Against Wesleyan, Kam won the 400 IM (4:17.06) and the 50 butterfly with a lifetime best time of 24.92.


NESCAC Women’s Swimming & Diving Performer of the Week | Weekly Release
Niamh Kastner – Trinity – Sr. – Williamsburg, Va.
Kastner had a record-breaking week in the pool for the Bantams, setting four pool records and winning six of the eight events she swam over two meets. On Tuesday, against Mount Holyoke and Vassar, the senior swam the butterfly leg (25.26) of the winning 200 medley relay, which set a Trinity pool record. Kastner swam the 200 butterfly, winning and breaking her own pool record with a time of 2:06.70. She also won the 100 butterfly and set another pool record-breaking time of 56.96, a record she has been chasing for three years. Finally, Kastner was a member of the winning 400 freestyle relay, swimming the anchor leg in a time of 53.68. On Thursday, against Wesleyan, Kastner competed in a few off events to score points where needed. She was the freestyle leg of the winning 400 medley relay (55.03), which broke the Trinity pool record, and placed third and fourth in the 200 and 100 freestyle races, securing some much-needed points in those events. To wrap up the meet, Kastner was a member of the Bantams’ mixed 400 freestyle relay that just out-touched Wesleyan.