Shifting Day! Each Iona Swim & Dive Males & Ladies Transfer Up at ECAC Champs

LEWISBURG, PA – Sparked by a pair of sturdy relay efforts, three remaining swims and 4 comfort efforts, the Iona University Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving Team jumped up within the remaining standings on the remaining day of competitors on the 2026 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Swimming & Diving Open Championships held on the Kinney Natatorium at Bucknell University.
 
The Iona girls leapfrogged MAAC rival Fairfield within the remaining occasion – the200-yard Butterfly – to take a 217.5-217.0 in a struggle for prime six place. The Iona Women’s quartet of Mary Grace Waring (53.30), Kate Kennedy (53.54), Caitlin Hopkins (53.46) and Victoria Mordaunt (52.79) however collectively a 3:33.09 time and claimed fourth because the Stags had been disqualified on a take-off violation. The relay factors gave the Iona girls fifth place with 247.5-points.
 
The Women’s 200-yard butterfly noticed Iona take the lead for the primary time within the three-day meet as freshmen Marissa Hengesbach and Maddie Lauria positioned sixth and fourteenth with respective instances of two:08.48 and a pair of;13.58 to arrange the ultimate relay.
 
Also scoring individually for the Iona girls had been sophomore Hailey Baker and who positioned tenth within the 200-yard Breaststroke at 2:24.35 and freshmen Francesca Field in positioned fourteenth at 2:27.70.
 
On the Men’s facet the quartet of Dylan Malave (47.74); Colin Martin (49.70); Nicola re (48.13) and Harry Summers (48.37) took tenth within the occasion at 3:13.94 to leap Leigh University 79 to 77.5-points.
 
The US Naval Academy took each the ladies’s and males’s workforce titles within the 40-event, three-day meet in Lewisburg, PA.
 
Individually on Sunday, senior co-captain, Katherine Sarnes, swimming her remaining race for the maroon and gold, alongside her sister, sophomore Mollie Sarnes, took fifth within the 1,650-Freestle at 18:00.27, with Mollie eighth at 18:22.51. 
 
“Those two races relay had our team excited and the points were huge,” commented Coach Nick Cavataro.
 
The different large effort got here from freshmen Mordaunt, who in a mid-day time trial, lowered her personal faculty report within the 100-yard particular person Medley by. 67 to 57.32 and joins Sophomore Raegan O’Brien as a qualifier for the March 12-14 CSCAA National Invitational Championship in Ocala, Florida, together with 12 males.
 
“To have all 14 women and 5 men score in either individual or relay events at this level meet with the strong competition the likes of Navy, Bucknell, Penn, Loyola and Columbia among others, is really promising for the team,” commented Cavataro.
 
The NIC in Ocala Is the ultimate cease on the 25-26 season for the Gaels on March 12-14 in Ocala, Florida.