Swimming Finishes Third within the 2026 MAAC Swimming & Diving Championship

Geneva, OH — Niagara swimming groups delivered sturdy performances on the 2026 MAAC Swimming and Diving Championships on Saturday, with the ladies putting third and the lads ending third within the remaining staff standings at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, OH.
The Purple Eagles girls gathered 1,074 factors, trailing champion Fairfield (1,325.5) and runner-up Marist (1,315.5). The males’s squad tallied 1,139.33 factors, ending behind Fairfield (1,341.83) and Marist (1,276).
 
Women’s Performances
Junior Natalie Killion led the best way for Niagara’s girls, capturing the 200-yard backstroke title with a time of 1:57.38. The defending champion within the occasion improved considerably from her preliminary time of 1:59.02.
 
Junior Claire Gorton tied for first within the 100-yard freestyle, touching the wall at 50.96 seconds alongside Marist’s Kennedy Wheeler.
 
Junior Alaina Pitton continued her dominance within the breaststroke, successful the 200-yard occasion with a championship report time of two:13.98, simply lacking the MAAC report she set earlier in prelims.
 
Sophomore Marty Divis positioned second within the grueling 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 17:09.39. Senior Ania Bodyl added a fifth-place end within the 200-yard backstroke (2:04.76).
 
The Niagara girls’s 400-yard freestyle relay staff of Megan Jackson, Gorton, Killion and Pitton broke the MAAC report with a time of three:23.62, shattering the earlier mark of three:24.66.
 
Men’s Performances
Freshman Vilem Mikula highlighted the lads’s competitors with a victory within the 200-yard backstroke, posting a time of 1:43.74. Teammate Holden Brock, completed second in the identical occasion at 1:44.81.
 
Sophomore Jordan Grab positioned second within the 1650-yard freestyle with a time of 15:48.16. Marist junior Oscar Bjering gained the occasion with a time of 15:39.33.
 
Sophomore Ethan Hunter earned first within the 200-yard butterfly (1:49.87), whereas junior Nate Eaton completed third (1:50.79).
 
Junior Thomas Latimer took third within the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:58.36.
 
The Purple Eagles’ 400-yard freestyle relay staff of Brock, Jura Domanovac, Latimer and Mikula completed second with a time of two:59.18.
 
Two Niagara swimmers Pitton and Mikula earned main awards on the championship. Pitton gained girls’s most excellent swimmer of the meet. Mikula was tabbed with each most excellent rookie and swimmer, the primary time a freshman has gained each most excellent rookie and swimmer in the identical MAAC Championship.