Males’s swimming competes in pair of meets at IUP

INDIANA, Pa. — The Kutztown University males’s swim group took half within the Crimson Hawk Fall Invitational and IUP Sprint Frenzy on Friday afternoon, coming away with a pair of PSAC qualifying occasions and a program prime 10.

Freshman Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) was the lone PSAC qualifier for KU within the Crimson Hawk Fall Invitational. Shaw broke one minute within the 100-yard breaststroke for the primary time in his collegiate profession, setting the second-fastest time in program historical past with a 59.56 to publish the second-best time within the occasion of 13 swimmers.

The Lansdale, Pa., native moved up from sixth on KU’s prime 10 checklist after registering a time of 1:00.69 within the Bears’ season opener towards Shippensburg. Shaw moved to inside .28 of Brad Borek’s college file time of 59.28 set again in 2004.

Matheson Bair (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain) positioned third of 12 rivals within the 200 particular person medley with a 2:04.22.

Bair would go on to choose up a PSAC qualifying time within the 50 freestyle throughout the IUP Sprint Frenzy with a 22.26 that ranked fifth of 14 swimmers.

The second meet of the day featured a variety of 50-yard strokes, occasions that aren’t contested on the PSAC Championships outdoors of the 50 free.

Shaw was the top-finishing Golden Bear, taking fourth in each the 50 breaststroke (27.93) and 100 IM (55.96).

Kutztown will subsequent face Montclair State on the street, Saturday, Oct. 25, at 1 p.m.

 

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CRIMSON HAWK FALL INVITATIONAL
Friday, Oct. 10, 2025
Indiana, Pa. | Pidgeon Natatorium
 
KUTZTOWN RESULTS
All distances in yards
 
400 Medley Relay (11 groups)
5. Kutztown ‘A’ (Schurr, Shaw, Otten, Bair), 3:39.56
9. Kutztown ‘B’ (Jost, Miksa, Rivera, Pizzo), 3:47.01
 
200 IM (12 rivals)
3. Matheson Bair (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain), 2:04.22
 
100 Butterfly (13 rivals)
6. Nick Rivera (Red Lion, Pa./Dallastown), 55.54
11. Gabriel Clauss (Kutztown, Pa./Kutztown), 58.09
12. Paul Spear (Hatboro, Pa./Upper Moreland), 59.03
 
200 Freestyle (15 rivals)
7. Reilly Jones (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury), 1:51.77
9. Andrew Pletz (Allentown, Pa./Parkland), 1:52.41
12. Nigel Pizzo (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North), 1:54.53
 
100 Backstroke (11 rivals)
6. Zach Schurr (Chattanooga, Tenn./McCallie School), 57.32
7. RJ Otten (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa), 57.98
11. Aaron Jost (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional), 1:00.17
 
100 Breaststroke (13 rivals)
2. Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), 59.56, PSAC Qualifying, 2nd all-time at KU
9. Theo Miksa (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East), 1:02.71
12. Reilly Jones (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury), 1:04.23
 
400 Freestyle Relay (11 groups)
4. Kutztown ‘A’ (Bair, Pizzo, Jones, Shaw), 3:19.88
8. Kutztown ‘B’ (Rivera, Miksa, Otten, Pletz), 3:26.96
11. Kutztown ‘C’ (Spear, Clauss, Schurr, Jost), 3:38.52
 

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IUP SPRINT FRENZY
Friday, Oct. 10, 2025
Indiana, Pa. | Pidgeon Natatorium
 
KUTZTOWN RESULTS
All distances in yards
 
200 Medley Relay (9 groups)
5. Kutztown ‘A’ (Schurr, Shaw, Otten, Bair), 1:41.17
8. Kutztown ‘B’ (Jost, Miksa, Rivera, Pizzo), 1:44.24
 
100 Freestyle (17 rivals)
9. Reilly Jones (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury), 51.46
12. Andrew Pletz (Allentown, Pa./Parkland), 51.96
13. Nigel Pizzo (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North), 52.00
 
50 Breaststroke (15 rivals)
4. Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), 27.93
12. Theo Miksa (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East), 29.65
14. Nigel Pizzo (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North), 31.48
 
50 Freestyle (14 rivals)
5. Matheson Bair (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain), 22.26, PSAC Qualifying
11. Nick Rivera (Red Lion, Pa./Dallastown), 23.58
13. Nigel Pizzo (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North), 23.76
 
50 Butterfly (15 rivals)
8. Nick Rivera (Red Lion, Pa./Dallastown), 25.62
11. Zach Schurr (Chattanooga, Tenn./McCallie School), 26.03
12. Gabriel Clauss (Kutztown, Pa./Kutztown), 26.17
15. Paul Spear (Hatboro, Pa./Upper Moreland), x27.26
 
50 Backstroke (9 rivals)
9. Aaron Jost (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional), 27.80
 
100 IM (18 rivals)
4. Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn), 55.96
9. Reilly Jones (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury), 5910
11. RJ Otten (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa), 59.58
14. Theo Miksa (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East), x1:00.41
16. Paul Spear (Hatboro, Pa./Upper Moreland), x1:03.98
 
200 Freestyle Relay (10 groups)
5. Kutztown ‘A’ (Bair, Pizzo, Rivera, Shaw), 1:31.10
8. Kutztown ‘B’ (Jones, Clauss, Pletz, Miksa), 1:34.81
9. Kutztown ‘C’ (Jost, Otten, Schurr, Spear), 1:38.49