Daniel Vasilkoff Named Swimmer to Watch as Baruch Tops CUNYAC Men’s Swimming Preseason Poll

NEW YORK – Baruch was picked to seize its eighth straight CUNY Athletic Conference males’s swimming and diving common season title because the convention’s preseason coaches’ ballot was launched Thursday afternoon.

The Bearcats captured all three doable first place votes (coaches could not vote for their very own workforce) and recorded 9 factors.

Brooklyn earned the opposite first place vote and totaled seven factors, adopted by Lehman (5) and York (3).

The 2025-26 CUNYAC ladies’s swimming and diving Swimmers to Watch have been additionally introduced.

Baruch completed unbeaten in convention common season competitors final season earlier than profitable its seventh straight convention championship and tenth total with a dominating efficiency on the convention championship meet, accumulating 402 factors to outdistance second place Brooklyn by 238.

The 2025-26 CUNYAC Men’s Swimming and Diving Championship is about for Friday, January 30 by way of Sunday, February 1 at The APEX at Lehman College.

2025-26 CUNY Athletic Conference

Men’s Swimming and Diving Preseason Coaches Poll

(first place votes in parentheses)

1. Baruch (3) – 9

2. Brooklyn (1) – 7

3. Lehman – 5

4. York – 3

2025-26 CUNYAC Men’s Swimming and Diving

Swimmers to Watch

Daniel Vasilkoff, Baruch – Vasilkoff captured three particular person championships on the 2025 convention meet within the 100 breaststroke, the 200 breaststroke and the 400 particular person medley.

Michael Kravets, Brooklyn – Kravets was the convention champion within the 500 and 1650 freestyle final season and completed runner-up within the 200 butterfly for the Bulldogs.

Romulo Valadez, Lehman – Valadez helped the Lightning 200 and 400 freestyle relays and the 400 medley relaty to second place finishes eventually season’s convention championship and got here in fifth within the 200 particular person medley.

Wood-by Paulemont, York – Paulemont was York’s Newcomer of the Year in 2023-24 and took house tenth within the 100 backstroke as a freshman on the convention meet.

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