Hayburn Named ECAC Championships Swimmer of the Meet

LEWISBURG, Pa. – Loyola University Maryland closed the 2026 ECAC Open Championships with a powerful remaining day Sunday, highlighted by a pair of ECAC titles from Joe Hayburn and a number of podium finishes throughout particular person and relay occasions.
 
The Greyhounds completed second on the lads’s facet with 609 factors and third on the ladies’s with 408 factors. Hayburn was named the Male Swimmer of the Meet after main all rivals with 60 particular person factors.
 
Hayburn capped his championship meet in record-setting style, successful the lads’s 200 backstroke in 1:42.84, setting an ECAC Championship file, pool file and Loyola program file. He later added one other ECAC title within the males’s 100 freestyle, touching first in 42.93, additionally an ECAC Championships and Loyola file.
 
Hayburn anchored Loyola’s third-place 400 freestyle relay to shut the meet, teaming with Jack Hathaway, Thomas Cechini and Tyler Knurek for a time of three:00.36.
 
Those title added to his title, pool, ECAC and Loyola data earlier within the meet with a victory within the 100 backstroke.
 
In the gap occasions, Loyola posted a number of scoring swims. Adrianna Caponiti took third within the girls’s 1650 freestyle, clocking 17:31.86. On the lads’s facet, Chase Garcia led the Greyhounds with a fourth-place end within the 1650 freestyle at 15:50.15, adopted by Matthew Hughes in fifth at 15:56.77, Pierre Leroy in seventh at 16:01.76 and Peter Weinstein in eighth at 16:25.31.
 
Loyola added vital factors within the backstroke occasions. Sammy Yerkes led the ladies with a Twelfth-place end within the 200 backstroke at 2:04.97, whereas Virginia Walsh completed thirteenth at 2:05.39, Kelly Bruen was 14th at 2:06.03 and Elsie Bredbenner positioned fifteenth at 2:07.14. On the lads’s facet, Sam Voss positioned sixth within the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:49.59, Josh Stegner completed seventh at 1:51.40 and Patrick Ciorna took eighth at 1:51.50.
 
Haley Robinson completed second within the girls’s 100 freestyle, touching in 51.22, whereas Gabby Jones positioned thirteenth at 52.74. Tyler Knurek added factors on the lads’s facet with a 14th-place end within the 100 freestyle at 45.46.
 
In the breaststroke occasions, Noelle Hoffman led Loyola with a seventh-place end within the girls’s 200 breaststroke in 2:22.86, whereas Riley McGerald positioned ninth at 2:22.98, Makenna O’Brien was Twelfth at 2:25.42 and Grace Litzinger completed fifteenth at 2:28.51. Jack Hathaway scored for the lads with a fifth-place end within the 200 breaststroke at 2:02.60, adopted by Elias Corn in eighth at 2:03.57 and Connor Libassi in sixteenth at 2:07.73.
 
Butterfly occasions rounded out Loyola’s particular person efforts. Caponiti completed fourth within the girls’s 200 butterfly at 2:07.40, whereas Yerkes positioned eighth at 2:11.14 and Riley Riebling completed fifteenth at 2:14.04. Hayden Bartz led the lads with a seventh-place end within the 200 butterfly at 1:49.47, adopted by Thomas Cechini in eighth at 1:50.59 and Timmy King in Twelfth at 1:51.90.

Loyola’s relays capped the meet with podium finishes. The girls’s 400 freestyle relay crew of Walsh, Madison Testa, Abby Hays and Jones positioned third in 3:30.32, whereas the lads adopted with their very own third-place end within the remaining occasion of the meet.