Chicago, Ill., Feb. 13, 2016 – The Washington University in St. Louis men's swimming team won five events on its way to a second-place finish at the Midwest Invite hosted by the University of Chicago Friday-Saturday. The WashU women placed fifth.

Junior Grigg Schneider won two events and posted three season-best times at the meet. He won the 1,650 free in a career-best time of 16:52.00, and added a first-place finish in the 200 IM in 1:57.53. Schneider also swam a career-best time in the 400 IM, finishing second in 4:10.11. He swam a season-best 2:14.15 in a 200 breaststroke time trial.

Freshman Michael Matthews won the 100 butterfly in a season-best time of 51.33. He also teamed with seniors Luke Duschl and Kevin Hays and freshman Sandro Guttilla to win the 200-medley relay in 1:35.83. Matthews, Duschl, freshman Christopher Walker and sophomore Jeremy Wojtak won the 200-free relay in 1:29.75. Matthews added a second-place finish in the 50 free (22.11), before swimming a season-best time of 21.80 in a time trial for the event. He added a third-place finish (47.93) behind Guttilla (47.91) in the 100 free.

In addition to his 200-medley relay win and runner-up finish in the 100 free, Guttilla added two more second-place finishes. He and sophomore Jaron Cook placed second (4:43.61) and third (4:45.41), respectively, in the 500 free. Guttilla also finished second in the 200 free (1:43.81).

On the women's side, sophomore Michelle Murdock highlighted the Bears' performances by swimming a career-best time of 1:00.47 to finish fifth in the 100 butterfly. Freshman Megana Vasu was second in the 200 breaststroke (2:36.90), third in the 200 IM (2:16.84) and fourth in the 100 breaststroke (1:13.15).

The Washington University men's and women's swimming and diving teams travel to Rochester, N.Y., to compete in the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships being hosted by the University of Rochester Wednesday-Saturday, Feb. 17-20.