Wingate sophomore Iaroslav Denysenko (Poltava, Ukraine) received the Bluegrass Mountain Conference Swimmer of the Meet laurels for the second year in a row as the Bulldogs captured their fifth consecutive BMC championship meet title Saturday night (Feb. 18). Denysenko won the 1650 Freestyle Saturday with an NCAA Division II “A” cut time of 15:17.40. Second-place finisher Alex Graudins from SCAD-Savannah was 16-plus seconds behind Denysenko.
For the second consecutive year, Denysenko won three-of-three distance races, placing first in the 500, 1000 and 1650 Freestyle events. He won the 500 Freestyle Thursday with a new meet and conference-record time of 4:22.68. The 2011 NCAA Division II national champion in the 500 Free, Denysenko missed the D-II 500 Free record by one-tenth of a second. On Wednesday, Denysenko won the 1000 Freestyle with a meet-record time of 9:04.86. He also swam the anchor leg on Wingate’s second-place 800 Freestyle Relay quartet Wednesday.
