Senior Teddy Pender earned All-NESCAC honors in three events at the NESCAC Championships over the weekend and finishes his career with 13 All-NESCAC selections. He is the fourth-highest point scorer in the conference at the championship meet over the last four years.
Pender (Muscat, Oman) broke Matthew Gagne's team record in the 50 fly with his prelim time of 22.13 seconds in the morning trials on Friday, 0.22 under Gagne's former mark. Pender took another hundredth off his time in the finals, finishing second overall in 22.12 seconds.
Pender, sophomore Tanner Fuller (Wellington, Fla.), junior Rory Collins (Brookfield, Conn.) and senior Jonathan Depew (Hudson, Ohio) finished fifth in the 200 free relay with a finals time of 1:23.26.
Senior captain Riley Ewing (Bedford, N.H.), junior Alex Bedard (Amherst, N.H.), Pender and Fuller finished the night with a fourth-place finish in the 400 medley relay, with a time of 3:20.13, less than a second off the team record.
On Saturday, Bates' 200-yard medley relay team of senior Ewing, Bedard, Pender and Depew finished the championship final in 1:30.52, 0.17 seconds under the former team record set at the 2017 NCAA Championships by Ewing, Dan Walpole, Pender and Depew. The foursome placed fourth in the event, 0.17 seconds away from third-place Williams.
Pender took fifth place in the championship final of the 100 butterfly, with a time of 49.65 seconds.
On Sunday, Pender picked up his second All-NESCAC honor of the meet by finishing third in the 100-yard freestyle championship final, with a time of 45.15 seconds.
Bates' 400 free relay team of Fuller, Depew, Bedard and Pender finished in 3:03.64 to take third place, with all-conference honors going to each of the top three squads.
Pender did all of this while battling a stomach virus, making him our Male Bobcat of the Week!
