Swimming qualifies report numbers for NCAA Championships

INDIANAPOLIS – The Salisbury University swimming groups’ rising popularity on the nationwide stage took one other large step ahead on Friday morning with the announcement that 16 of its student-athletes throughout 12 occasions have qualified for the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming and Diving Championships, set to be held on the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis, Ind. on Mar. 18-21.
 
The Twenty fourth-ranked Sea Gull ladies’s group noticed 10 of its swimmers representing 9 occasions punch their tickets to nationals. The 18th-ranked Sea Gull males, in the meantime, secured their first nationwide qualification since 1998 and shall be represented by six swimmers throughout three occasions.
 
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• 100 freestyle – Rowan O’Donoghue
• 200 freestyle – O’Donoghue
• 500 freestyle – O’Donoghue, Addi Wood
• 1,650 freestyle – Wood
• 200 breaststroke – Maddie Powell
• 200 butterfly – Libby Miyashita
• 400 medley relay – Isabelle Salvatore, Mackenzie Gula, Lily Griffin, O’Donoghue
• 400 free relay – Rachel Rickabaugh, Griffin, Alexa Hilty, O’Donoghue
• 800 free relay – O’Donoghue, Gula, Hilty, Jenna Krawlzik

 
MEN

 
The qualification record additional certifies the outstanding development of Salisbury swimming, which had solely despatched three swimmers over eight occasions to nationals in its complete program historical past earlier than this season. The Sea Gulls will arrive in Indianapolis with a contingent of swimmers that may place them top-15 by way of co-ed illustration on deck.
 
 

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with main membership within the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, together with affiliate membership within the New Jersey Athletic Conference (soccer, males’s & ladies’s swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (males’s lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (subject hockey), and Colonial Women’s Golf Conference (ladies’s golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports activities, SU is acknowledged as one of many nation’s best intercollegiate athletics applications no matter division, that includes devoted coaches and employees that foster excellence on and off the sphere. The Sea Gulls have received a mixed 23 group nationwide championships, 24 particular person nationwide championships, and 207 convention championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

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