800 Free Relay Group Breaks Pool Record to Lead #4 Males’s Swimming & Diving on UAA Day 1

CHICAGO — The 4th-ranked University of Chicago males’s swimming and diving group sits in second place following the opening two occasions of the 2026 UAA Championships.

The Maroons opened the UAA Championships with a bang on Wednesday evening because the 800 Freestyle Relay group of Alex Schwartz, Misha Kojanov, Cooper Costello, John Butler broke the Myers-McLoraine Pool document and the UAA Championships document with a time of 6:28.04 to win the opening swimming occasion of the meet. The time additionally completed simply 1.06 seconds off the all-time NCAA Division III document of 6:26.98, set by the National Championship group from UChicago final season.

In the lone different occasion of the day, the UChicago diving duo of Danyal Ghadiali and Zachary Berg earned a pair of top-four finishes within the 3-meter competitors. Ghadiali scored a 472.75 to complete second within the occasion, and Berg scored a 449.75 to complete in fourth. In the preliminary spherical, Ghadiali document a rating of 513.00 which ranks because the seventh-best 11-dive rating in program historical past.

The Maroons will return to the pool tomorrow at 10 AM CT for the second day of the four-day meet. Swimming prelims will start at 10 AM, and diving prelims will start at 12 PM. The finals will kick off at 5:30 PM CT with the Women’s 1-meter A Final, and the swimming finals will start at 6 PM CT.

A FINAL FINISHES:

* 1st – Alex Schwartz, Misha Kojanov, Cooper Costello, John Butler – 800 Freestyle Relay – 6:28.04 (UAA Championship Record / Myers-McLoraine Pool Record)
* 2nd – Danyal Ghadiali – 3m Diving – 472.75 (Prelims rating of 513.00 ranks seventh in UChicago historical past)
* 4th – Zachary Berg – 3m Diving – 449.75

RECORD BOOK PERFORMANCES:

* Danyal Ghadiali – 3m Diving – 513.00 (seventh in UChicago historical past)
* Alex Schwartz, Misha Kojanov, Cooper Costello, John Butler – 800 Freestyle Relay – 6:28.04 (UAA Championship Record / Myers-McLoraine Pool Record)

CAREER BESTS:

* Danyal Ghadiali – 3m Diving – 472.75 (seventh in UChicago historical past)