Crimson Hawks dominate at New Yr’s Kick Off Invitational

INDIANA, Pa. – Indiana University of Pennsylvania swimming opened the 2026 calendar with a commanding efficiency, sweeping each workforce titles on the IUP New Year’s Kick Off Invitational at Zink Pools.

The Crimson Hawks posted 183 factors on the ladies’s aspect and 134 factors within the males’s competitors, comfortably outdistancing Davis & Elkins College in each standings.

IUP set the tone early by successful each 200-yard medley relays. The girls’s “A” relay of Jordan Crupie, Tina Cudina, Gem Crittenden and Summer Esson touched first in 1:51.79, whereas the boys’s quartet of Ty Uhlig, Brody Davies, Trent Powell and Nick Vaow captured the opener in 1:37.36.

Crittenden turned in one of many day’s prime particular person performances, sweeping the ladies’s 100 butterfly, 50 butterfly and 100 particular person medley. She additionally helped anchor a number of relay wins as IUP managed the dash occasions all through the meet.

Cudina claimed victories within the girls’s 50 and 100 freestyle, whereas Kyla Kramer swept the breaststroke occasions with wins in each the 50 and 100. Lillian Farmer added a win within the 100 backstroke, and Esson highlighted the space occasions with a victory within the 200 freestyle.

On the boys’s aspect, Powell recorded a pair of wins within the butterfly occasions, taking the 100 in 52.47 and the 50 in 24.10. Nick Vaow captured the 50 freestyle, Ty Uhlig gained the 100 backstroke, and Alexander Roth claimed the 100 particular person medley.

IUP closed the meet in dominant trend, successful each 200 freestyle relays. The girls’s workforce of Esson, Julianne Zaffiro, Farmer and Cudina completed in 1:43.94, whereas the boys’s relay of Stephen Goff, Vaow, Powell and Uhlig touched in 1:27.67.

The invitational served as a powerful season-opening assertion because the Crimson Hawks showcased depth throughout occasions and robust relay execution heading into the center of the schedule.