Explorers Swim And Dive Wrap Up First Half Of A-10 Championships

Hampton, VA — The La Salle swimming & diving groups opened competitors on the 2026 Atlantic 10 Championships on the Hampton Virginia Aquaplex with a robust exhibiting throughout relays, sprints, and diving occasions, highlighted by a number of podium finishes and a pair of particular person victories.

On Wednesday evening, the Explorers wasted no time making an influence in relay motion. The ladies’s 200-yard medley relay group of seniors Gabriela Herbreder, Carlota Ungo, sophomore Camilla Frost, and senior Tori Fenn raced to a second-place end in 1:39.38, incomes beneficial group factors to start out the meet. Later within the night, the ladies’s 800-yard freestyle relay quartet of Herbreder, senior Rosalia Marin Martinez, sophomore Beren Celik, and senior Felicia Rogell secured bronze with a 7:20.52 efficiency. Both outcomes had been program data.

The males adopted with a third-place end within the 200-yard medley relay, as senior Tarik Gusic, junior Carter Perkins, senior Felix Jedbratt, and junior Austin Wakefield mixed for a 1:26.17, getting one other program file for La Salle on opening day.

In diving competitors, La Salle positioned a number of athletes within the finals of the 1-meter occasion. Sophomore Calvin LeBlanc led the way in which with a sixth-place end (283.30), whereas senior Carter Randall captured ninth within the comfort last. 

Thursday’s finals introduced much more success for La Salle, starting with a convention championship efficiency from Jedbratt within the 50-yard freestyle. Jedbratt broke the Atlantic 10 Championship file he set final 12 months, defending his title within the occasion, and incomes a spot within the NCAA Championships, all in 19.18 seconds. Perkins added to the momentum with a third-place end in 19.67.

On the ladies’s facet, Fenn sprinted to a first-place end within the 50-yard freestyle, successful the convention title in 22.64, one other program file. The Explorers additionally noticed a standout swim from Herbreder within the 200-yard particular person medley, the place she claimed gold in 1:58.75. 

La Salle closed the evening with one other sturdy relay effort within the 200-yard freestyle relay. The ladies’s squad of senior Emma Van Selm, Herbreder, senior Maren Schermerhorn, and Fenn mixed for a 1:30.65 to complete second general, earn a program file, and proceed the group’s momentum. On the boys’s facet in that occasion, the group of Jedbratt, Wakefield, Gusic, and Perkins gained gold and received one more program file with a time of 1:18.29.

With a number of occasion titles, record-breaking performances, and robust relay depth on either side, the Explorers positioned themselves effectively because the Atlantic 10 Championships proceed all through the week.