Swimming & Diving sweeps Wagner on Senior Day

VESTAL, N.Y. – The Binghamton swimming & diving program celebrated its Senior Day in grand model on Saturday afternoon on the Saunders Aquatic Center. 

In addition to sweeping Wagner, the Bearcats broke eight pool data, met a pair of NCAA Zone Diving Cuts and honored its 9 graduating seniors throughout their annual pre-meet ceremony. In the ultimate group standings, the Bearcat males gained 190-95 whereas the ladies took a 176-91 determination.

“Today was a great day,” head coach Jerry Cummiskey stated,” I knew we’d swim well but I didn’t think we’d do this good. This meet puts us in a good place heading into the America East meet in three weeks.”

The tone of the meet was set within the first occasion of the day – the 200 medley relay. Binghamton’s males’s and girls’s groups broke the pool data set by Cornell in 2024. The girls’s quartet of sophomore Eva Smith, freshman Julia Iwanow, senior Maria Pignatelli, and freshman Lauren Maierle clocked a time of 1:44.64 – slightly below the earlier report of 1:44.69. The Bearcat males’s group of freshman Isaih Francis, sophomore Tyler Schultz as effectively seniors Patrick Lang and Liam Preston recorded a time of 1:31.01 – surpassing the previous mark of 1:31.26. 

Pignatelli and Iwanow every added a pool report in sweeping a pair of particular person occasions. Pignatelli captured the 50 free (23.68) and the 100 free (51.34). Her 100 free time broke former America East champion Caitlin Kelly’s 2014 pool report of 23.72. Iwanow, in the meantime, broke her personal 100 breast pool report with a time of 1:02.22 and likewise gained the 200 breast (2:16.80).

Four different Binghamton males set particular person pool data on Saturday towards the Seahawks – two of which had been held by former NCAA qualifier David Holmes. Junior Harrison Lambert’s 1000 free time of 9:27.73 broke Holmes’ 2007 mark of 9:27.73 whereas sophomore Evan Peters’ 200 free time of 1:37.94 eclipsed Holmes 2006 efficiency of 1:39.09. Peters later gained the five hundred free on Saturday (4:35.89). 

Sophomore Amir Sadykov broke his personal pool report within the 200 breast (2:02.33) whereas fellow sophomore Cameron Stetzer’s 100 breast time of 54.67 broke the 2024 report of 55.31 set by Binghamton Master’s Swimmer Geoff Wells.

As for the diving occasions, senior Elizabeth Tirado swept the ladies’s one- and three-meter occasions with scores of 272.92 and 268.05. In the method, she met the NCAA Zone Cut within the one-meter occasion (265.00). On the lads’s aspect, sophomore Jacob Koclanis met the NCAA Zone Cut within the three-meter competitors (320.93 – with 320.00 being the usual) whereas freshman Samuel Pikofsky-Christiansen took the one-meter occasion for the second week in a row (292.58).

Three different Binghamton swimmers gained a pair of particular person occasions. Smith swept the ladies’s 100 again (56.74) and 200 again (2:04.50), freshman Evan Creter took high honors within the males’s 100 again (50.08) and 200 again (1:50.45) whereas sophomore William Deutmeyer was first in each the lads’s 200 fly (1:55.04) and 100 free (47.25).

Other girls’s particular person winners included sophomore Natalie Kassirer within the 1000 free (10:27.30), fellow sophomore Fayanne Smith-Salzberg within the 200 IM (2:07.84) and junior Haley Nowak within the 200 fly (2:07.99). The remainder of the lads’s first-place finishers , in the meantime, included Preston within the 50 free (21.04) and Lang within the 100 fly (51.06). 

The Bearcats concluded the meet by sweeping the 400 free relays. The girls’s quartet, which recorded a time of three:32.14, included Pignatelli, junior Juliette Phillips, sophomore Leonor Coelho and freshman Erica Czeremcha. The Bearcat males had been paced by Peters, sophomores Ryaan Alshami and Jonah Kirschbaum and Deutmeyer and clocked a time of three:08.75.

Prior to the meet, Binghamton honored its 2026 graduating class, which was competing within the remaining house meet of its profession. Representing the Bearcat girls had been Pignatelli, Tirado, Saige Kazlauskas and Celia Webster. The males’s senior class included Preston, Lang, David Marshall, David Ponce and Max Kaback.

The America East Championships – Binghamton’s subsequent meet – is ready for Feb. 18-21 at VMI.