Swimming Makes Sturdy Assertion on Day 2 of MAAC Championships

Geneva, OH. — Niagara swimming groups continued their dominant efficiency on the 2026 MAAC Championships on Thursday, with a number of athletes reaching the rostrum at SPIRE Institute in Geneve, OH.
 
Women’s Competition
Junior Natalie Killion led the Purple Eagles with a victory within the 500-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 4:49.75. Killion, who set the convention report within the occasion final 12 months (4:48.18), held off Mount Saint Mary’s Carmen Del Aguila Martin (4:51.15) and Sacred Heart’s Sophia Velleco (4:53.95).
 
In the 200-yard particular person medley, junior Alaina Pitton broke the MAAC report with a time of two:00.99. Pitton improved on her successful time from final 12 months (2:02.03) and topped sophomore Daphne Mead of Canisius (2:02.79). Senior Chloe Vlaeminck added a third-place end for Niagara in 2:04.55.
 
Junior Claire Gorton positioned second within the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 23.35, whereas junior Megan Jackson completed fourth in 23.49.
 
The Purple Eagles’ 200-yard freestyle relay crew of Jackson, Gorton, freshman My-Ky Vo and Pitton received the occasion in 1:33.39.
 
Men’s Competition
In the lads’s 500 freestyle, sophomore Jordan Grab positioned fifth in 4:30.97.
 
Niagara had 5 swimmers within the males’s 200 IM. Freshman Vilem Mikula led the way in which with a victory in 1:47.73, adopted by sophomore Holden Brock in third (1:48.37), junior Thomas Latimer in fifth (1:48.91), sophomore Ethan Hunter in sixth (1:50.03) and sophomore Michael Levine in seventh (1:50.17). Sophomore Lance Rafael Cruz rounded out the scoring with an eighth-place end in 1:50.39.
 
The Purple Eagles completed fifth within the males’s 200-yard freestyle relay with the crew of Mikula, Brock, freshman Jura Domanovac and junior Nate Eaton touching in 1:21.92.
 
After two days of competitors, Niagara’s ladies sit in second place with 412 factors behind Marist (457), whereas the lads are tied for second with Marist at 397 factors, trailing Fairfield (473.5).
 
Up Next

Niagara is again in motion tomorrow Friday February 13 for day three of the MAAC Swimming & Diving Championships as the primary session is about for 9:30 a.m. adopted by session two at 5:30 p.m.