Swimming & Diving Groups Sweep MAAC Championships

The Stags received each males’s and ladies’s group titles and 4 particular person main awards.

The Fairfield Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving applications swept the 2026 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Championships earlier this month in Geneva, Ohio, as each applications edged out second-place Marist University for the highest spots. For the boys’s group, the convention championship is the primary in program historical past, whereas the ladies captured their fifth league crown.

The males took residence the title by a cushty 65.83-point margin; the ladies received by simply 10 factors—needing to complete robust within the meet’s ultimate relay to safe the Championship.

Individually, second-year head coach Jake Lichter was named each the MAAC Men’s and Women’s Coach of the Year. Lichter is assisted by Emma Brown, Jeff Vlass ’25, and diving coach Devon O’Nalty.

Two first-year Stags additionally collected particular person honors. Natasha De Pree ’29 was named the MAAC Women’s Rookie Swimmer of the Year after successful gold the 200 freestyle and 1650 freestyle and enjoying an element in three medal-winning relays. Colton Driggers ’29 was the top-finishing freshman on each the 1-meter and 3-meter boards to earn Men’s Rookie Diver of the Meet.

In whole, the Fairfield girls medaled in 17 occasions on the MAAC Championships, highlighted by 9 golds. The males claimed three golds as part of their 10 whole medals on the meet.