This Year’s Yuri Zimarev?

I just checked the ECAC results:

http://www.besmarttinc.com/

Last year we had the mystery man Yury Zimarez from Old Westbury College make a splash and then disappear. This year there were two guys posting fast times from a school I had never heard of before:

From CUNY Staten Island

Pavel Buyanov
50 free 22.03
100 breast 55.67
200 Breast 2:03.04

Nikola Shevchenko
100 fly 50.53
200 fly 1:52.23
200 im 1:56.17
400 im 4:10.92

They were the only 2 people from their team there that I noticed, no relays or anything. At the school’s website, I found a few interesting things. Check out their coach and roster, it has a pretty significant Russian presence.

http://www.csidolphins.com/roster.asp?path=mswim

I then went to the conference athletic website, under the “about us” section, I read this paragraph:

http://www.cunyathletics.com/
After years of hard work, perhaps the greatest achievement of CUNYAC took place as the 20th century came to a close. The conference was granted automatic qualification berths to the NCAA Championships in Men’s Soccer, Women’s Volleyball, Men’s Basketball, Women’s Basketball and Softball. In addition to those AQ berths, CUNYAC has also secured the same opportunity for men’s and women’s tennis student-athletes beginning with the 2006 season, bringing to seven the number of CUNY teams that will make a trip to the NCAA Division III Championships.

What does this mean? Are these the only sports they are allowed at NCAAs, or just a list of the automatic births? Do you think we will see these guys again? Will they be at NCAAs in Ohio? With those times the two of them could score nearly 40-50 points by themselves. Why not bring the rest of the squad to ECACs? They also have Old Westbury on their schedule, which I think brings it all back to Yuri!

Anybody know what’s going on here?