{"id":1963,"date":"2009-01-22T11:42:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T15:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2016-01-14T13:40:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T18:40:49","slug":"berry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/01\/22\/berry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Berry &#039;09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/01\/72berry_9124.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/01\/72berry_9124.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Chris Berry &#039;09\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-captain <strong>Chris Berry<\/strong> (Augusta, Maine) had a big hand in an impressive first home meet for the Bates swimming and diving teams against Bowdoin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Bates men finished the meet with another pool record performance in the 400 freestyle relay, as Berry and first-years <strong>Ned Scott<\/strong> (Maplewood, N.J.), <strong>Tom Boniface<\/strong> (Youngstown, Ohio) and <strong>Nathaniel Depew<\/strong> (Hudson, Ohio) touched the wall in 3:17.00. The previous mark of 3:17.86 had been established in 1993 by Wesleyan.<\/p>\n<p>Berry and teammates\u00a0also would have claimed the pool record in the 400 medley relay as well, although the Polar Bears touched the wall first to claim the mark for themselves with a 3:39.57 performance. Swimming in 3:40.05 for Bates were Berry, first-year <strong>Alex McKeown<\/strong> (South Windsor, Conn.), Scott and first-year <strong>Dan Aupi<\/strong> (Branford, Conn.). The previous mark of 3:39.57 was established by Bates alumni <strong>Eric Bowden, Adam Eggert, Nate Curll<\/strong> and <strong>Todd Bretl<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Berry also claimed first place in the 100-yard backstroke race, registering a time of 55.65 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Bates will next compete this Saturday in a dual meet at Colby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x189403.xml\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Co-captain Chris Berry (Augusta, Maine) had a big hand in an impressive first home meet for the Bates swimming and diving teams against Bowdoin on Saturday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[24,11012],"tags":[1758,11035,8347],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-student-life","tag-bobcat-of-the-week","tag-profiles","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions\/89072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}