Private Greatest/Distance Swims Earn Segmen Duygun MEC Male Swimmer of the Week

Wheeling, W. Va. – The 2025-2026 Wheeling University Men’s Swimming staff wrote their identify within the historical past books this previous season, setting the single-season twin meet win report with a sweep over Fairmont State and Bethany College on Friday. On Monday, this system was honored for his or her accomplishment when the Mountain East Conference (MEC) launched their Weekly Player of the Week awards, introduced by The Healthplan. Freshman Swimmer Segmen Duygun was named the convention’s Male Swimmer of the Week, after main the Cardinals to the historic effort. 

Duygun was the Cardinal’s main scorer on the tri-meet occasion, placing up a team-best 509.5 factors throughout three races. Usually specializing within the distance occasions, Duygun confirmed his versatility, dipping into the mid-distance aspect of the occasion. He would swim in two particular person occasions, competing in each the 500-Yard Freestyle and the 200-Yard Butterfly, choosing up wins in each of these occasions. He would spherical out his day swimming within the 400-Yard Freestyle Relay, the place he helped the Cardinals end third total. He would find yourself setting one PR on the day, coming within the Butterfly, and completed 18 factors behind Fairmont State’s Vlad Fedoseev for the highest scorer within the occasion.  

Duygun would get the person occasions happening the lads’s aspect, hitting the pool for the primary time within the 500-Yard Freestyle. It can be the freshman’s largest win of the day, as he put up a time of 5:01.44, beating out the remainder of the sphere by just below 18 seconds. It would find yourself falling just below 18 seconds in need of his private greatest within the occasion, however he was in a position to hit that PR mark the following time he hit the pool. It would come within the 200-Yard Butterfly, the place he beat out his outdated PR by simply over a second and a half. He swam a time of two:01.48, coming in just below 5 seconds sooner than Fairmont State’s George Ferguson, to set the brand new PR. He would spherical out the day because the opening leg of Wheeling’s C Group for the 4X400 Freestyle Relay. Duygun would begin issues robust as his staff posted a time of three:33.71 to spherical out the trouble. 

For Duygun, it’s the second time that he has taken residence MEC Male Swimmer of the Week honors, beforehand profitable the award again on October sixth. It is the twenty eighth time this season {that a} Wheeling University student-athlete has earned a convention participant of the week honor, and the third time a Wheeling Men’s Swimmer has taken residence the award. The final Cardinal to be honored was Wheeling Wrestler Jack Dinwiddie, who earned the MEC’s Wrestler of the Week again on January fifth. 

Dugyun and the Wheeling University Men’s Swimming staff returns to motion on Tuesday, February tenth, after they compete on day one of many 2026 MEC/GMAC Swimming & Diving Championships.