Chicago, Ill. – The No. 14 Washington University in St. Louis men's swimming and diving finished second with 473.5 points at the 2024 Midwest Invitational, hosted by the University of Chicago. It was the final tune-up meet before the NCAA Championships at the end of March.
 
The Bears will find out official qualifiers for the NCAA Championships next week and the Championships begin on March 20.
 
Top Finishers:
 
500 Freestyle:

• Matt Giardinelli finished fourth (4:31.93)
• Kenneth Yeh finished 10^th (4:45.31)

200 IM:

• Andy Zhu finished second (1:54.78)
• William Little took fourth (1:56.83)

50 Freestyle:

• Connor Kwiatkowski finished sixth (21.38)
• Ryan Wierschem took seventh (21.59)

200 Medley Relay:

• Andy Zhu, Devin Bunner, Connor Kwiatkowski, Matthew Walker finished third (1:33.41)

400 IM:

• Marco Minai won and hit an NCAA B cut (3:57.82)
• Matthew Giardinelli took fourth (4:14.09)

100 Butterfly:

• Connor Kwiatkowski finished fourth (50.25)
• Ryan Wierschem took sixth (51.78)

100 Breaststroke:

• Devin Bunner finished second (57.36)
• Max Balon took seventh (58.14)
• Andy Zhu finished eighth (58.50)

1,650 Freestyle:

• Ryan Hillery won and hit an NCAA B cut/2023 qualifying time (15:37.87)
• Orluke Borjigin took fourth (16:08.27)

100 IM:

• Andy Zhu finished second (52.57)
• Mason Rhode took fifth (54.83)

100 Freestyle:

• Connor Kwiatkowski finished seventh (47.23)
• Ryan Wierschem took eighth (47.79)

200 Breaststroke:

• Max Balon took third (2:03.88)
• Devin Bunner finished fourth (2:04.88)
• Bert Wang finished fifth (2:12.38)
• William Little took sixth (2:12.60)

200 Butterfly:

• Matthew Walker won (1:50.65)

400 Freestyle Relay:

• Ryan Hillery, Orluke Borjigin, Kenneth Yeh, Bert Wang finished second (3:16.54)