A number of Podiums, New 200-Yard Medley Relay Faculty File Spotlight Day One of 2026 ASUN Championships

ORLANDO, FLA – The Gardner-Webb swimming group wrapped up the primary day of the 2026 ASUN Championships on Friday night, with a number of podium finishes and a brand new college report within the books

In the lads’s 500 yard freestyle finals, freshman Victor Cury captured the primary podium of the week for Gardner-Webb. With a time of 4:23.85, Cury was scored in second place, practically two seconds forward of his opponents in third and fourth, and set a brand new private finest unexpectedly

The ladies’s 50 yard freestyle finals have been highlighted by junior Slawka Ndubuisi. With a time of twenty-two.92 seconds in finals, Ndubuisi introduced residence a 3rd place end for the Dawgs and set a brand new private finest

Perhaps the largest occasion of your complete day for Gardner-Webb got here within the males’s 200 yard medley relay. The Runnin’ Bulldogs positioned fourth, however did so within the course of setting a brand new program report. Junior Carter Redelman, junior Jacob Jensen, sophomore Luke Wesson and senior Justin Bender put down a time of 1:26.56 to enter the Gardner-Webb report books

Other factors of word for Gardner-Webb on day one embrace a slew of non-public data, in each finals and prelims. Of these included are junior Luke Weber and sophomore Santiago Alcantara within the 500 freestyle, with Weber clocking a 4:30.52 and Alcantara touching the wall in 4:33.91

Between the the lads’s and ladies’s 50 yard freestyle prelims, 5 new PR instances have been set for the Dawgs. In addition to Ndubuisi who bettered her personal time in finals, senior Hannah Routh set a brand new finest time of 23.94 within the ladies’s race. On the lads’s aspect in the meantime, freshman Jonny Fraccola was clocked at 21.25, freshman Joe Sorrell at 21.27, and sophomore Manuel Brandner at 20.42