DENVER — Grand Canyon’s Ivan Nechunaev has been named the Western Athletic Conference Men’s Swimmer of the Week for December 30-January 5.
Nechunaev, a senior from Tomsk, Russia (Tomsk National University), won two individual events and was a member of the winning 200 medley relay in a dual meet at UC San Diego on Saturday. The ‘Lopes won the meet, 158-104. Nechunaev won the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 48.17, setting a new pool record. He swept the fly events with a time of 1:52.50 in the 200. Nechunaev also placed second to his teammate, Iegor Lytvenok, in the 200 IM with a time of 1:52.97.
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