Navy Garners 5 Main Awards After Sweeping League Swimming and Diving Titles

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — The Navy swimming and diving groups mixed to win 5 main awards following the conclusion of the Patriot League Championship held this weekend in Lejeune Hall.  Finn Gelbach was named the lads’s diver of the meet, Corinne Warriner and Chase Maier gained the rookie-of-the-year awards, Bill Roberts was named the lads’s swimming coach of the yr and Tim Fisher acquired the Joe Suriano Men’s Diving Coach-of-the-Year accolade.

All of the key awards had been voted on by the league’s head coaches following the conclusion of the championship.

The Navy girls’s workforce gained its 14th title in a row and the lads’s workforce gained for the twenty first time in its 22 years of competing on the meet.

Gelbach was named the league’s diver of the yr for the second time (2024) in his three years of competing on the meet.  He gained each boards final week with scores within the finals of 364.95 on the three meter and 386.10 on the one meter.  Gelbach gained the previous occasion by 23 factors and the latter by just below 50 factors.  He has posted 4 wins and two second-place finishes in his six profession occasions on the championship.

Warriner scored 70 particular person occasion factors on the meet to tie for sixteenth place within the subject of opponents.  She positioned third in each breaststroke occasions and eleventh within the 200 particular person medley at her first league meet.

Maier’s efforts on the meet had been capped by his successful the 1650 freestyle on Saturday by practically 16 seconds with a time of 14:54.68.  The clocking earned him an automated berth into the occasion on the NCAA Championship because it was underneath the nationwide customary of 15:06.60 for convention champions.  Maier additionally positioned third within the 500 free and sixth within the 200 particular person medley as he tied for eighth place with 83 particular person occasion factors.

Roberts earned his first coach-of-the-year award for the reason that 2020 championship and the twelfth in his 22 years at Navy.  The Mids gained 12 of the 18 swimming occasions and, together with diving, amassed 1,792 factors to win the meet by 582 factors.  Additionally, 5 swimmers earned automated qualification (in six occasions) for the NCAA Championship and 4 relay groups met the NCAA’s provisional qualification customary.

Fisher has now totaled 4 coach-of-the-year awards in his three seasons as he’s a three-time recipient of the lads’s award, which is known as after the previous Navy diving coach, and was the 2025 honoree for the ladies’s coach-of-the-year accolade.  In addition to Gelbach’s two wins final week, Navy’s Luke Ogren earned the silver medal within the one-meter occasion and teammate Anthony Sciulli positioned second on three meter and fourth on one meter.  Also, Navy accounted for 4 of the eight championship ultimate qualifiers on each boards on this yr’s girls’s meet.

Women’s Swimmer of the Meet: Angie McKane, Army West Point

Men’s Swimmer of the Meet: Johnny Crush, Army West Point

Women’s Diver of the Meet: Alayna Kennedy, Boston University

Men’s Diver of the Meet: Finn Gelbach, Navy

Women’s Rookie of the Meet: Corinne Warriner, Navy

Men’s Rookie of the Meet: Chase Maier, Navy

Women’s Swim Coaching Staff of the Year: Boston University – Head Coach: James Sica

Men’s Swim Coaching Staff of the Year: Navy – Head Coach: Bil Roberts

Women’s Diving Coaching Staff of the Year: Boston University – Brad Snodgrass

Joe Suriano Men’s Diving Coaching Staff of the Year: Navy – Tim Fisher