PAC Championship Preview: Hiram Men’s & Women’s Swimming

By: Hiram SID

Men’s Preview

Under Matt Campbell‘s second season as head coach for the Terriers, the lads’s crew completed the common season with a 7-2 general report. This marks a .778 win proportion and follows up an ideal 8-0 report from the earlier season. In two seasons as head coach, Campbell has spearheaded the crew to a 15-2 report in twin meets.. Campbell and the remainder of the Terriers roster are solidifying Hiram swimming as a respectable crew within the PAC not just for the current, but in addition for years to return.

In 2025-26, the lads’s swim crew completed 4-0 within the convention, which places them on the high of the general standings within the convention. One key convention win for the Terriers was once they traveled to New Wilmington, Pennsylvania to face Westminster on November 15 and picked up a street win (136-81). 

The males’s crew is at the moment using a three-meet win streak, which provides the lads a variety of momentum and confidence going into the convention championship, which begins on Wednesday night in Grove City, PA.

The Terriers have a wholesome mixture of veteran upperclassmen and underclassmen, highlighted by seniors Owen Pastorius and Jon Hybil, who’ve had a popularity of getting constant seasons in addition to competing with a number of the greatest competitors within the nation on the Division III degree within the North Coast Athletic Conference. In addition to the senior duo are juniors Joe Krosky, David Slovenkay, and Ethan O’Malley, who need to carry out on the highest degree within the Presidents’ Athletic Conference Championship. 

Pastorius is at the moment ranked third within the convention within the 1650-yard and 500-yard freestyle, in addition to a top-eight time within the 200-yard freestyle. Hybil is ranked top-10 within the 100-yard breastroke and 200-yard breastroke. Krosky is ranked within the top-15 within the 200-yard butterfly and 400 particular person medley. Slovenkay is ranked within the top-15 within the 100-yard backstroke, top-10 within the 200-yard backstroke, and top-20 within the 200-yard freestyle. O’Malley is ranked thirty sixth out of virtually 90 swimmers within the 50-yard freestyle and ranked fortieth out of 70 swimmers within the 100-yard freestyle.

Sophomores Ethan Drake and Tanner Markley are each ranked within the convention for his or her principal occasions. Markley is on the cusp of being twenty fifth general within the 100-yard backstroke, and likewise is twenty third within the 200-yard backstroke. Drake is ranked within the top-20 within the convention for the 1650-yard freestyle, top-30 within the 200-yard butterfly in addition to 18th within the 400-yard particular person medley.

Freshmen Elijah Gilman and Morrodox Sisowath are additionally on the brink of expertise their first collegiate convention championship meet. Gilman is ranked within the 200-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke and 100-yard backstroke. Sisowath is ranked thirty eighth out of over 50 swimmers within the 200-yard freestyle and forty ninth out of 70 swimmers within the 100-yard freestyle.

When it involves his expectations for the lads’s crew, Campbell expects some ‘A-final’ swims in addition to quantity of ‘B-final’ swims, along with quite a few private bests. Campbell additionally believes that the lads’s crew has a variety of potential to be near some program relay data. 

Coach Campbell can also be optimistic not just for the PAC Championships, but in addition for the way forward for this system.

“We are looking to bring in (even more) high-quality, all-around performing swimmers,” Campbell mentioned.

Women’s Preview

The Hiram ladies’s swimming crew has discovered methods to enhance, with a number of private bests and constant swims all through the season. One notable win for the ladies’s crew this season was on senior day towards Bluffton, which supplied a incredible alternative for each the lads’s and ladies’s crew to rejoice senior day in victorious vogue.

Seniors Grace Basham and Becca Johnston have been integral elements of the crew since their freshmen years and have seen a variety of fantastic and gifted swimmers come and go. This week marks a chance for the veteran tandem to go away all the things on the market on the PAC Championship meet. 

These two student-athletes have additionally been function fashions and shining examples of exhausting work and dedication to the crew. First-year Mya Libertine can also be going to be the muse for the long run courses of Hiram ladies’s swimmers because the recruiting courses proceed to develop.

When it involves particular person rankings, Basham is ranked top-40 within the 500-yard freestyle, top-50 within the 100-yard freestyle, and thirty fifth out of fifty+ swimmers within the 50-yard backstroke. Johnston is ranked thirty first within the 200-yard breastroke, in addition to thirty sixth within the 100-yard breastroke. Lastly, Libertine is ranked 63rd out of 80+ swimmers within the 100-yard freestyle, fortieth within the 200-yard particular person medley and forty ninth within the 100-yard butterfly.

Campbell needs the ladies’s crew to give attention to performing to the most effective of their skills and setting the muse for a vibrant and loaded freshman class that may quickly be filling within the gaps of the 2 graduating seniors. 

Follow Along

You can watch the entire PAC motion on the PAC Digital Network here, in addition to comply with alongside the stay outcomes here. Full schedules for each groups could be discovered at hiramterriers.com.