Swimmers compete on Day 1&2 of UAA championships

CHICAGO, Ill — The Brandeis University swimming and diving groups competed on the primary two days of motion on the 2026 University Athletic Association championships on Wednesday night with the primary remaining of the meet and the primary spherical of prelims on Thursday morning and afternoon. After finishing the relays, the squads had been each in eighth place, with the ladies scoring 202 factors and the boys 198. 

On Wednesday night, the highest Brandeis 800-yard freestyle relays every got here in eighth place for the Judges. On the boys’s aspect, Brandeis’s prime squad consisted of seniors Benjamin Lee (Upton, Mass./Nipmuc Regional), Solomon Skelton-Harris (Golden Valley, Minn./Robbinsdale Armstrong), Sam Bundy (Charlotte, N.C./Ardrey Kell) and sophomore Peter Mou (Brookline, Mass./Brimmer and May School). They turned in a time of seven:02.64, bettering their season finest by 10 seconds. For the ladies, seniors Jenna Wild (Evanston, Ill./Evanston Township) and Rebecca Kaplan (Fairfax, Va./Robinson Secondary School) teamed with first-years Michelle Weissler (Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) and Sasha Tsizer (Framingham, Mass./Framingham) to decrease the season-best by 15 seconds with a time of 8:12.53.

In Thursday’s preliminary races, the Judges had been unable to get anybody into the night finals. Mou turned within the workforce’s finest end, coming in thirty second within the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.32 seconds, decreasing his personal-best by one-hundredth of a second. Junior Luke Abrahamson (Lincoln, R.I./Lincoln) was Thirty fifth within the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:58.18, decreasing his personal-best by about half a second. Lee added a Thirty fifth-place end within the 200-yard particular person medley with a time of 1:54.71, a season-best by about four-tenths of a second.

On the ladies’s aspect, Kaplan and senior Audrey Teo (Palo Alto, Calif./Palo Alto) had been separated by one-hundredth of a second within the 200 IM, with Kaplan edging her teammate with a time of two:17.02. Kaplan shaved greater than a full second off her season finest, whereas Teo lowered hers by two seconds. Tsizer was thirty ninth within the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:38.95, taking about half a second off her p.r., and Wild was forty ninth within the 50 free with a time of 25.65 seconds. 

First-year diver Ivana Marinkovic (Malden, Mass./Malden) was in a position to contribute some factors for the ladies with a rating of 289.20 within the 1-meter diving occasion, good for twenty first place. 

The groups competed in 4 extra relays within the night session, taking eighth place in every. In the 200-yard freestyle relay, the workforce of Wild, Teo, Weissler and Kaplan posted a time of 1:43.27. The 400 medley relay featured sophomore Lauren Balfour (Madison, Miss./Pine Crest), Weissler, senior D’Arcy Anselmi (Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River), and Wild posting a mark of 4:08.47, six seconds higher than the Judges’ season finest. For the boys, the 200 free was swum by Mou, Lee, sophomore Santiago Salazar (Houston, Texas/James E. Taylor) and Skelton-Harris with a time of 1:26.80, whereas Abrahamson, Salazar, Skelton-Harris and Mou swam 3:36.99 within the 400 medley. 

The 2026 UAA Swimming and Diving championships proceed via Saturday, Feb. 14.