YORK, PA – The Wilkes University men's swimming team finished 12^th overall concluding the final day of action at the 2017 Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) Championships on Sunday night.

Full Results
 
The Colonels finished with 66 total team points. Albright College took home the title with 581 team points while Arcadia University finished in second place with 530.5 points.
 
Sean Connelly (Ashley, PA/Hanover Area) finished 26^th overall in the 1650 freestyle coming in at 20:26.22. Jacob Parfianowicz (Elmira, NY/Elmira Free Academy) and Dominic Parfianowicz (Elmira, NY/Elmira Free Academy) finished back-to-back in the 100 freestyle coming in 22^nd and 23^rd place. Jacob finished at 50.37 setting a new school record, while Dominic touched in at 50.40. Matthew Nevers (Jackson, NJ/Jackson Memorial) and Phillip Bennett (Sayre, PA/Sayre ) also swam the event finishing in 34^th and 35^th respectively at 54.48 and 56.72.
 
Three Colonels swam in the 200 breaststroke event as Nick Walker (Nazareth, PA/Nazareth Area) (23^rd/2:28.04), Chris Bright (24^th/2:30.05) and Thurman Fogleman (York, PA/William Penn) (25^th/2:32.07) all competed in the preliminaries.
 
Tyler Weatherby (Sewell, NJ/Gloucester County Institutional Technology) finished 20^th overall in the 200 butterfly with a time of 2:10.31 breaking his own school mark set earlier this season.
 
The relay team of J. Parfianowicz, D. Parfianowicz, Bright and Weatherby finshed 11^th overall in the 400 freestyle relay with J. Parfianowicz breaking his own 100 free record at 50.33 he set earlier in the day.
 
The championships conclude the third season since the program's rebirth in 2014.