Males’s Swimming and Diving Drops Season Opener to Wilmington

BEREA, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University males’s swimming and diving workforce opened the 2025-26 and Ohio Athletic Conference season by falling to Wilmington College by a remaining rating of 116-73 within the BW Natatorium contained in the Lou Higgins Center.

BW (0-1, 0-1 OAC) gained 4 particular person races.  Wilmington (1-0, 1-0 OAC) gained 5 particular person races and each relays.

Individuals

• Senior Academic All-OAC freestyler Kevin Meyer (Mentor) gained the 100-yard in a time of 53.27
• Junior stroker Michael Gruber III (Sagamore Hills/Nordonia) gained the 1000-yard freestyle in a time of 11:33.59
• Freshman freestyler Xavier Hatfield (North Royalton) gained the 50-yard freestyle in a and was second within the 100-yard freestyle in occasions of 25:24 and 55.89, respectively.
• Sophomore freestyler Mason Carnahan (Willard) gained the 500-yard freestyle and took third within the 200-yar freestyle in occasions of 5:34.24 and 1:58.09, respectively
• Sophomore stroker Danny Murphy (Herndon, Va./South Lakes) completed second within the 100-yard butterfly, third within the 100-yard breaststroke and third within the 200-yard particular person medley and third in occasions of 58.50, 1:07.97, and a couple of:09.28, respectively
• Senior stroker Nolan Szuch (Springboro) took third in a time of 57.75

Relays

• The 200-yard medley workforce of Szuch, Carnahan, Murphy and Hatfield took second in a time of 1:47.80
• The 200-yard freestyle unit of Meyer, freshman stroker Aidan Bacon (Upper Sandusky), junior stroker Alex Cooper (Columbus/Thomas Worthington) and Gruber in a time of 1:49.08

The Yellow Jackets are again in motion on Saturday, October 25 once they host a pair of non-conference twin meets in opposition to Allegheny (Pa.) College and Fredonia (N.Y.) University at 11 a.m.