McShane, Jones to Characterize CMS Swimming and Diving at NCAA Championships

CLAREMONT, Calif. – First-years William Jones (1650 free) and Pierce McShane (500 free) will characterize the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps males’s swimming and diving crew within the distance occasions on the NCAA Division III Championships in Indianapolis from March 18-21. 

Jones has the ninth greatest time within the 1650 this season at 15:37.94, which earned him the SCIAC championship, giving him first-team All-America potential (prime eight). He will attempt to proceed the Stag 1650 legacy left behind by Lucas Lang, who received back-to-back nationwide championships the final two years and was a four-time first-team All-American from 2022-25. 

McShane earned the No. 15 seed within the 500 free together with his time of 4:28.48, which received the SCIAC title for the Stags. He additionally has the twentieth greatest time within the 400 IM amongst invited swimmers (3:57.15), giving him the potential so as to add that occasion if sufficient certified swimmers decide out to swim in different occasions. He may even attempt to make his method onto the five hundred free podium, after Lang earned first-team All-America honors final 12 months. 

The Stag divers may even be in motion this weekend on the NCAA Regional Qualifiers at Emory, to attempt to add to the CMS contingent in Indianapolis. Beckett Heywood, Logan Mansfield, Bennet Matazzoni, Zach Meisel, and Ethan Sattley will all be competing in Atlanta on each the one-meter and three-meter boards this weekend.