Navy places ending touches on ECAC Open Championship

LEWISBURG, Pa. – The 2026 ECAC Open Championship got here to a detailed on Sunday night, with Navy profitable each the boys’s and ladies’s workforce titles after main all through the weekend. The ladies totaled 818 factors, whereas the boys racked up 995, with each ending greater than 300 factors forward of second place.
 
Penn’s Maggie Straley started Sunday’s motion with a win within the ladies’s 1650 free, as her time of 16:48.52 was 36 seconds forward of the subsequent closest competitor. Yonatan Ahdut of NJIT adopted got here in first on the boys’s aspect, producing a time of 15:17.79.
 
Penn teammates Olivia Safarikova (1:58.10) and Charlotte Holliday (1:59.62) turned in a 1-2 end within the ladies’s 200 again, with Torun McGillis of Delaware (2:00.17) rounding out the highest three. Loyola’s Joe Hayburn set a brand new meet file within the males’s race, profitable the occasion with a finals time of 1:42.84.
 
The ladies’s 100 free noticed Bucknell take three of the highest 4 particular person spots on the rostrum, highlighted by champion Jennifer Bolden (50.55). Hayburn produced his second meet file in as many races within the males’s 100 free, as his mark of 42.93 was sufficient to carry off a trio of Midshipmen.
 
Corinne Warriner (2:12.67) and Marley Barnard (2:14:28) gave Navy the highest two within the ladies’s 200 again, with Bucknell’s Kelly Byrne (2:15.76) rounding out the highest three. Noah Robinson (1:56.11) took dwelling the boys’s crown, with Bucknell teammates Colin Zhang (2:00.54) and Neo Matsuyama (2:01.16) taking second and third respectively.
 
In the ladies’s 200 fly, Ruitong Zhang (1:59.87) picked up the person crown, adopted by teammate Caroline Cancelmo (2:05.67). Navy took dwelling every of the highest three spots on the boys’s aspect, with Evan O’Dea main the pack at 1:44.77.
 
The Bucknell squad of Kyla Kelly, Ashley Placentino, Hanna Klingensmith and Jennifer Bolden mixed for a finals time of three:25.37 to win the ladies’s 400 free relay. The Penn males’s workforce of Truman Armstrong, Vincent Vinciguerra, Kevin Jiang and Ryan McGuirk closed out the meet with a time of two:58.28 to win the boys’s occasion.
 
At the conclusion of the meet, Zhang was named the Women’s Swimmer of the Meet, whereas Hayburn collected the Men’s award. Navy coaches John Morrison (ladies) and Bill Roberts (males) acquired Coach of the Meet honors.
 
Women’s Final Standings:

1. Navy (818)
2. Bucknell (537)
3. Loyola (408)
4. Penn (364.5)
5. Iona (247.5)
6. Fairfield (217)
7. Manhattan (111)
8. Delaware (70)
9. Rutgers (64)
10. James Madison (60)
11. Lehigh (34)

12. Central Connecticut State (32)
13. Baruch (29)
14. Hunter (23)
15. Harvard (20)
16. American (10)
 
Men’s Final Standings:

1. Navy (995)
2. Loyola (609)
3. Penn (379.5)
4. Columbia (323)
5. Bucknell (310)
6. Fairfield (274)
7. Baruch (138)
8. Norwich (114)
9. Manhattan (96)
10. Iona (79)
11. Lehigh (77.5)
12. Maine Maritime (73)
13. Husson (66)
14. Wilkes (37)
15. NJIT (20)
16. SUNY Maritime (20)