{"id":13949,"date":"2025-03-24T13:59:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T20:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/?p=13949"},"modified":"2025-03-24T14:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T21:01:40","slug":"lucas-lang-repeats-national-title-win-for-stags-swim-and-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2025\/03\/24\/lucas-lang-repeats-national-title-win-for-stags-swim-and-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas Lang\u00a0Repeats National Title Win for Stags Swim and Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lucas Lang \u201925, a computer science major at Harvey Mudd College, earned the national championship in the 1650-yard freestyle for the second year in a row, taking first place in 15:18.01 on the final day of the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday at the Greensboro Aquatics Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, in a dramatic finish, Lang held on to win by just seven-hundredths of a second over Connor Vincent of NYU in 15:17.48. This year there was less drama as Lang surged into the lead at the midway point and held a lead of two body lengths down the stretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyler Distenfeld of Denison earned second place with a time of 15:20.19, a margin of just over two seconds. Vincent was fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The March 22 meet marks the fourth year in a row that the Stags have had a national champion. Frank Applebaum took first in the 200 fly in both 2022 and 2023, while Lang has won the last two titles in the 1650.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lang also earned first-team All-America honors in the 500 with a third-place finish. Jeremy Tan \u201926, also a computer science major at Harvey Mudd, captured second-team All-America honors in the 100 back and earned second-team All-America honors in both the 200-medley and the 400-medley relays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cmsathletics.org\/news\/2025\/3\/22\/mens-swimming-and-diving-lucas-lang-repeats-as-national-champion-in-1650-for-stags-swim-and-dive.aspx\">See full CMS news item<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucas Lang \u201925, a computer science major at Harvey Mudd College, earned the national championship in the 1650-yard freestyle for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":13950,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,967,27,30],"class_list":["post-13949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award","category-computer-science","category-general-feed","category-sport","category-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13953,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13949\/revisions\/13953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}