Results

NEWARK, NJ—In their first Division I victory of the season, the NJIT men's swimming team improved their record to 3-2 with a standing room only crowd at the Fleisher Athletic Center.

NJIT defeated St. Francis (NY) 53-42, and fell to Manhattan, 41-54.

The Highlanders continued to swim fast and broke an additional 3 school records, bringing the total to eight school records broken for the weekend.

Freshman Brian Capozzola had a phenomenal performance in both the 50 and 100 Freestyle, finishing first in both overall.

 In the 50 Freestyle he broke his own record set a week and a half ago with a time of 21.80. In the 100 Freestyle Capozzola went a 47.57, breaking his teammate, Senior Shawn Bryan's, old mark of 48.00.

The 400 Freestyle Relay, made up of Capozzola, Freshman Jonathan Drori, Freshman Dennis Popov, and Senior Shawn Bryan took down the existing record by 3 seconds set back in 2007 with a time of 3:17.67.

Bryan was narrowly touched out in the 200 Freestyle with a time of 1:49.62 and finished 2^nd to Capozzola against St.Francis in the 100 Freestyle (49.76). Drori finished 1^st overall in the 500 Freestyle (5:03.91) and 1^st against St. Francis in the 200 IM with a time of 2:07.44. Seffrin finished 1^st in the 1000 Freestyle overall with a time of 10:17.41 and Freshman Matthew Temple finished behind him in 2^nd against St. Francis (11:27.15).

The Highlanders will take on Lehigh University at NJIT's Fleisher Athletic Center on Saturday, December 1.