Swimming & Diving Heads to AE Championships

VESTAL, N.Y. – The Binghamton swimming & diving groups journey to the America East Championships this week. The four-day meet runs Wednesday-Saturday and is being hosted by Virginia Military Institute (VMI). 

The males’s group, which completed 7-0 in twin meets this season, gained its second straight convention title final 12 months. The Bearcats gained a detailed meet in opposition to UMBC in 2025 and the competitors is anticipated as soon as once more to be shut between the 2 faculties this week.

On the ladies’s facet, the Bearcats completed 5-3 in twin meets this season and need to transfer up from their fifth-place end on the America East Championships in 2025.

Binghamton returns 4 defending convention champions this season. They embrace sophomore Evan Peters (males’s 200 free), fellow sophomore Cameron Stetzer (males’s 200 IM), junior Harrison Lambert (males’s 400 IM) and senior Max Kaback (100 again).

Four different Binghamton swimmers earned all-conference honors final 12 months with at the very least one top-three end in a person occasion. They embrace junior Fayanne Smith-Salzberg (girls’s 100 breast), sophomore Tyler Schultz (males’s 100 breast), sophomore Jackson Kennard (males’s 100 breast & 200 breast) and sophomore Amir Sadykov (males’s 200 breast).

The high newcomer for Binghamton this season has been freshman Julia Iwanow. Swimming primarily within the girls’s breaststroke occasions, she has been named the America East Rookie of the Week a conference-best seven occasions this season. Sophomore Eva Smith – who transferred from Cleveland State – has made a direct impression within the girls’s backstroke occasions.

Seniors Maria Pignatelli and Elizabeth Tirado each return for his or her closing convention meet. Last 12 months, Pignatelli was fourth in each the 100 breast and 100 free and likewise positioned sixth within the 50 free. Tirado, in the meantime, was fourth within the one-meter diving occasion and fifth within the three-meter competitors.

Another standout rookie on the ladies’s facet has been freshman Lauren Maierle. She may swim in as many as 4 relays on the America East Championships. 

Binghamton’s high three males’s divers have already met the usual for the NCAA Zone Meet. They embrace freshman Samuel Pikofsky-Christiansen, sophomore Jacob Koclanis and junior Dylan Norby.

A pair of males’s freshmen has additionally factored into the group’s success in the course of the common season. Isaih Francis swept each the America East Swimmer and Rookie of the Week awards on Nov. 4. Evan Creter, in the meantime, was the Rookie of the Week on Feb. 3.