Males’s Swim & Dive Place Fourth In 2026 MVC Championships

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – University of Massachusetts males’s swimming and diving workforce positioned fourth on the ultimate day of the 2026 Missouri Valley Conference Championships after scoring 925.50 factors all through the four-day occasion on the Deaconess Aquatic Center.  

Freshman Hudson Bawduniak secured the bronze medal within the 200 breaststroke, whereas the 400 freestyle relay workforce set a college document on the day.

Additionally, Bawduniak landed on the 2026 All-MVC First Team, with junior Jude Boukarroum, freshman Carson Harrington, freshman Liam Hickey and sophomore Chase Keeler earned All-MVC Honorable Mention.

Hickey (1:45.83) and Keeler (1:46.37) took fifth and sixth, respectively, within the 200 backstroke to start out off the person finals occasions. Hickey earned a spot within the finals after inserting third within the preliminary spherical with a personal-best time of 1:45.81, marking the fourth-best time in program historical past. Keeler superior to the finals with a personal-best time of 1:45.85, which ranked fifth all-time within the document books, within the preliminaries.

In the 100 freestyle, senior Sammy Quigg positioned sixth with a season-best time of 44.07, whereas freshman Macek Vandermolen adopted in twelfth with a personal-best time of 45.07, marking the ninth-best time in program historical past. Senior Aidan Shepston completed fifteenth with a time of 45.54, as sophomore Daniel Strumidlo was twenty first with a personal-best time of 45.78.

During the 200 breaststroke, Bawduniak swam a time of 1:57.92 to swim into third, with freshman Eli Panachyda recording a personal-best and the third-best mark all-time, to tie for fourth within the occasion. Sophomore Nate Derby positioned seventeenth with a time of two:00.45 and freshman Chase Dai was 18th with a season-best time of two:03.47.

Bawduniak reached the finals after taking first-place within the preliminaries with a personal-best time of 1:57.65, which ranked second all-time in program historical past.

The 400 freestyle relay workforce consisting of Shepston, Quigg, Vandermolen and Hickey broke the lads’s swim and dive workforce’s fourth relay program document after inserting fourth with a time 2:56.70. The relay workforce broke the earlier faculty document of two:57.12 by Emerson Kiefer, Shepston, Eric Eastham and Quigg from the 2023-24 season.

In the preliminaries, sophomore Liam Rayson had a personal-best time of 45.96 within the 100 freestyle.