INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – James McChesney collected his first career All-America award and Andrew Thompson broke one of his own TCNJ men's swimming records to provide a pair of big highlights on the first day of the NCAA Championships in Indianapolis.

McChesney placed 12^th in the 50 free, touching the wall in 20.15 seconds to officially secure All-America honorable mention. The super sophomore placed 10^th in prelims with a mark of 20.16, a tenth of a second off his school-record seed time of 20.06.

Thompson, meanwhile, broke his own 200 IM school record of 1:49.99, set during the 2020 Metropolitan Conference Championship, with a blistering 1:49.46 in the prelims session. The graduate student won his heat and narrowly missed out on qualifying for the finals, landing just .11 seconds out of the top-16 and settling for 20^th place overall, six spots ahead of his seeding.

Thompson, Matt Watts, McChesney, and Dixon Kahler finished 22^nd in the 200 medley relay prelims (1:33.20).

That relay unit will return to the pool on Thursday for the 200 free relay prelims, while Thompson competes in the 100 fly prelims and joins McChesney for the 200 free prelims.