No. 18 Males’s Swimming takes silver medal at NJAC Championships

HAMPTON, Va. – The 18th-ranked Salisbury University males’s swimming workforce continued its regular climb up the league pecking order, ending in second place on the 2026 New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Swimming & Diving Championships after a robust fourth and closing day of competitors on Sunday on the Hampton Aquaplex.
 
The Sea Gulls wrapped proceedings with 1,319 factors, taking the silver medal with ease over bronze medalists Merchant Marine (1,071). Only champions TCNJ (1,709) completed forward of SU within the area of 9 groups.
 
Salisbury has improved its championship positioning by one slot for the second straight 12 months after ending fourth at NJACs in 2024 and third in 2025. SU’s level complete improved on final 12 months’s (1,181.5) by 137.5 factors, and the gulf between the Sea Gulls and TCNJ within the standings shrunk from 532.5 factors in 2025 to 390 factors in 2026.
 
TOP PERFORMERS

• In the ultimate race of the meet, the Sea Gulls took the 400-yard freestyle relay silver medal, with Cameron Byrd, Michael DeSimone, Themo Rigakos, and Owen Brewer teaming up for a 3:00.32 time that hit the NCAA B-cut benchmark and sat simply 14 hundredths of a second again of TCNJ for gold.
• Byrd added a solo silver within the 200 butterfly in a time of 1:49.38 that cleared the B-cut by 1 / 4 of a second.
• Dominic Kazzi reeled within the bronze within the 200 breaststroke, touching up in 2:02.15 for his second particular person medal of the meet and fourth general. Brady Wolf (2:03.58) additionally positioned sixth within the occasion.
• Brewer completed simply off the rostrum within the 100 free, snagging fourth in 45.40 seconds.
• In the 200 backstroke, Everett Rachael registered fifth place in 1:50.13.
• Owen Mahoney (15:55.34) and Matt Merke (16:07.18) completed fifth and sixth, respectively, within the session-opening 1,650 free.

 

Those Sea Gulls with the correct nationwide qualifying marks will end the season competing on the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships, which can happen on Mar. 18-21 on the Indiana University Natatorium in Indianapolis. The nationwide championship area can be revealed at a later date.
 

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with main membership within the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, together with affiliate membership within the New Jersey Athletic Conference (soccer, males’s & girls’s swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (males’s lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (area hockey), and Colonial Women’s Golf Conference (girls’s golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports activities, SU is acknowledged as one of many nation’s best intercollegiate athletics packages no matter division, that includes devoted coaches and employees that foster excellence on and off the sector. The Sea Gulls have received a mixed 23 workforce nationwide championships, 24 particular person nationwide championships, and 207 convention championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

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