GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Feb. 11, 2022) – Freshmen J.T. Amrein and Victor Rosado each won a second event title and Oklahoma Christian's 800-yard freestyle relay team gave the Eagles a third win on a successful Friday night at the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships.

With one day remaining in the four-day meet, No. 17-ranked OC remained in third place in the team standings with 560.5 points, behind meet host and No. 4 Colorado Mesa (891) and No. 21 Colorado School of Mines (658.5).

Amrein, from Bonner Springs, Kan., won the 200 individual medley title on Wednesday and swam the third-fastest time in NCAA Division II this season to take top honors Friday in the 100 breaststroke at El Pomar Natatorium. His time of 53.14 seconds was both a RMAC meet and pool record and, when adjusted for altitude, was an OC school record, too, at 53.04 seconds.

He set the previous OC mark of 53.08 seconds in November in the Eagle Invitational in Edmond, Okla. The previous RMAC meet record of 53.35 seconds, set by Eetu M. Karvonen of Grand Canyon, had stood since 2013, and the previous pool mark of 53.50 seconds was set in 2021 by Colorado Mesa's Mahmoud Elgayer, who finished second behind Amrein on Friday in 54.50 seconds.

"I feel like all the hard work we did in school and in training and the doubles, it all paid off," Amrein said. "I just went in there open-minded and let the training do the work. I put the hours in, so I let it all just fall into place."

After Elgayer came OC freshman Felix Berling of Meppen, Germany, with a time of 54.81 seconds. His altitude-adjusted time of 54.71 seconds ranks 23rd this season in Division II and met the national B time standard. Freshman Lorenzo Tabladini of Castenedolo, Italy (55.95 seconds) took fifth and senior Zac Hawes of Houston won the B final, placing ninth overall, in 57.37 seconds.

Sam Carter (10th in 57.52 seconds) and Jason Seitz (11th in 58.18 seconds) gave the Eagles six of the top 11 finishers in the event.

From St. Petersburg, Fla., Rosado has been the breakout star of the RMAC meet, having earlier won the 1,000 freestyle (with the best time in Division II this season) and taken second in the 200 freestyle behind teammate Brandon Heredia. He added the 500 freestyle title to his haul on Friday with a time of 4:30.85, just ahead of the runner-up, OC freshman Chase Fields of Tyler, Texas, who finished in 4:32.69. Those times rank seventh and 13th, respectively, in Division II in 2021-22.

Rosado's altitude-adjusted time of 4:25.85 smashed OC's previous school record of 4:34.00, set by Fields in November in the Eagle Invitational.

"I just went for it," Rosado said. "I couldn't even think about it. I was just focused and went for it."

Rosado also anchored OC's winning team in the 800 freestyle relay. The foursome of Heredia, Fields, Caleb Musser and Rosado posted a time of 6:36.52, and their altitude-adjusted mark of 6:31.72 ranks second in Division II this season, which should put them into the field for next month's Division II Championships in Greensboro, N.C. They also obliterated the former OC mark of 6:44.13, set by Dereck Montgomery, Musser, Fields and Heredia in the Eagle Invitational in November.

Montgomery, a freshman from Rosenberg, Texas, took fourth in the 100 backstroke in 49.50 seconds to lead the Eagles in that event. OC's top swimmer in the 200 butterfly was junior Jackson Kaye of Cypress, Texas, who made the A final and took eighth in 1:55.91.

Saturday's schedule will include the 1,650 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 backstroke, 200 breaststroke and 400 freestyle relay.