Dunn Wins 1650 Freestyle, Earns Swimmer of the Year as Jumbos Place 2nd at NESCAC’s

MIDDLETOWN, CT (February 15, 2026) – Tufts University senior Madeleine Dunn gained the 1650 freestyle for her third title of the meet and was named Swimmer of the Year because the 2026 NESCAC Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships completed on Sunday at Wesleyan University.

Tufts positioned second out of 11 groups general in a good competitors in opposition to Williams College. The Jumbos compiled a group rating of 1640.5 factors, whereas the Ephs collected a 1725.5 complete. Colby College took third place with a 1274 rating.

Dunn, who gained the five hundred and 1000 freestyle races earlier within the meet, swept the gap freestyles by setting a college report of 16:47.11 to win the 1650 immediately. She broke her personal faculty report of 16:49.78 from 2024 with immediately’s mark, which improves her NCAA B qualifying time that ranks second nationally. Dunn’s three titles on the meet give her six for her profession on the convention championship.

Tufts’ first-ever NESCAC Swimmer of the Year, Dunn additionally earned the convention’s Career High-Points Swimmer Award immediately for the 355 factors she totaled at 4 NESCAC meets. Tufts senior Quinci Wheeler was third for the Career High-Points Swimmer Award with 320 factors. Senior Malia Leung gained the Career High-Points Diver Award with 193 factors, whereas Tufts’ Brad Snodgrass earned NESCAC Diving Coach of the Year for the third time.

Joining Dunn to assist the Jumbos rating massive factors within the 1650 freestyle on Sunday had been first-year Cloe Nader and sophomore Allli Brown. Nader’s 17:10.17 mark was third on the meet and an NCAA B lower, whereas Brown completed ninth with a 17:43,34 lifetime greatest. Nader’s time is simply exterior the highest 10 nationally.

The Jumbos had 5 swimmers rating within the 100 freestyle tonight, led by first-year Alec Lazorisak. After swimming a 51.79 PR within the morning preliminaries, she lowered it to 51.33 for sixth-place within the ultimate. It’s an NCAA B mark which ranks her seventh at Tufts all-time. Also within the prelims, Wheeler swam a 51.04 for her career-best, Tufts’ greatest time of the season and a #4 rating at Tufts. She was eighth within the ultimate (51.50). Senior Isa Chambers scored twelfth (52.02), sophomore Sweeney Su was thirteenth (52.24) and sophomore Sophia Knight touched sixteenth along with her lifetime better of 52.30 seconds. In a non-scoring position, junior Sydney Statsz timed 51.21 within the occasion for a lifetime greatest and NCAA B lower.

Three Jumbos made the championship ultimate within the 200 backstroke. Both sophomore Noa Chambers, who was fourth within the ultimate (2:02.28), and senior Madison Hagberg, who positioned fifth (2:02.66), recorded NCAA B marks. Sophomore Olivia Pettit added a seventh-place 2:03.97 time.

The meet closed with Tufts incomes one other pair of relay NCAA B qualifying spots with their 400 freestyle foursomes. Lazorisak, Wheeler, senior Katharine Skelly and Stasz mixed for a 3:24.63 mark that was third on the meet, ranks ninth nationally and is sixth-fastest at Tufts. The B relay of Su, Knight, Noa Chambers and Isa Chambers swam 3:27.72, with Su main off with a 51.79 PR within the 100 free.

For the 200 butterfly, sophomore Lila Strober led Tufts and was twelfth general with a 2:006.58 time. Junior Elena Harrison (2:09.17) in sixteenth, first-year Megan Treglia (2:06.35) in seventeenth and sophomore Angelina Sagaow (2:08.47) in twentieth all scored for Tufts.

First-year Emma Shane’s 2:26.43 led Tufts within the 200 breaststroke, the place she was thirteenth within the occasion. Sophomore Clara Behling had a 2:29.52 for twenty second place.

Skelly additionally swam a 50 butterfly time trial immediately, recording a 24.95 mark that was simply 0.03 off the varsity report and ranks her third all-time at Tufts.

The Tufts ladies can have one other probability to enhance or earn nationwide qualifying occasions on the NESCAC Invitational held through the males’s Championship at Colby College subsequent Sunday.

 

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