Brown Earns NEWMAC Men’s Swimmer of the Week Honor

Marlboro, MA — WPI Men’s Swimming and Diving first-year Lucas Brown (Viera, FL) was chosen because the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Men’s Swimmer of the Week for the week ending on Sunday, November 2nd, and consists of competitors from the beginning of the 2025-2026 season previous to this previous week.

Joining Brown on this week’s males’s swimming and diving honors had been Springfield’s Christian Butler (North Haven, CT) as the Diver of the Week, and Wheaton’s 200 Free Relay of Brian Hixson (Scituate, MA), Gavin Cullinan (Cumming, GA), Marcus Tran (Milton, MA), and Will Larson (Iowa City, IA), who had been acknowledged because the Relay Team of the Week.

Brown, a first-year standout, has been electrical to begin his collegiate profession, amassing six particular person victories and one runner-up end throughout WPI’s first two weekends of competitors. In the season opener at Ithaca, he powered the Engineers to their first win over the Bombers in three years, sweeping the 1000 freestyle (9:54.59) and 200 butterfly (1:57.52) whereas ending second within the 500 freestyle (4:50.72).

The rookie adopted up with an ideal 3-for-3 efficiency at WPI’s Halloween house meet versus Babson, Brandeis and Coast Guard, profitable the 1000 freestyle (10:04.30) by over ten seconds, the five hundred freestyle (4:52.84) by greater than six seconds, and the 200 IM (1:58.38) in a good end.

This marks WPI’s first NEWMAC weekly accolade of the younger season and the primary Men’s Swimmer of the Week honor since October 22, 2023, when Christopher Smith (Northbridge, MA) earned the award.

WPI will return house to host the Worcester City Championships that includes NCAA Division I Holy Cross, Division II Assumption and Clark on the WPI Sports & Recreation Center beginning on Saturday, November eighth, at 10am. 

NEWMAC Release