NCAA Men's Championships
at Miami (Ohio) University
hosted by the College of Wooster
Oxford, Ohio

OXFORD, Ohio —Bates College senior Andrew Hastings of Weston, Mass., earned his seventh career All-America honor today when he finished ninth overall in the three-meter diving event.

Hastings, who finished 22nd in the nation on Friday in one-meter diving, recorded a preliminary score of 411.20, missing the finals by 8.5 points. By finishing ninth, he secured his seventh All-America honor, the most earned by one athlete in Bates history. Four of his honors have come in the three-meter event and three in the one-meter. Hastings improved his performance in the three-meter by four spots from 2001.

Hastings scored nine points for Bates, helping the Bobcats to a tie for 39th place overall out of the 51 teams who score points at the championships. Bates was fifth among teams from New England. Kenyon College won its 23rd-straight NCAA title.

Full results from the NCAA Division III men's swimming and diving championships, including team scores, are available via the Web at the following URL: http://www.wooster.edu/athletics/swim/ncaamen/.

For more information on swimming and diving at Bates, please visit our Web page at http://abacus.bates.edu/sports/swimming.html.

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