Panthers Open Competitors at NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships Tuesday

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – Drury males’s and girls’s swimming and diving will embark on their respective quests for a nationwide championship Tuesday (March 10) when the 2026 NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships get underway at Deaconess Aquatic Center.

The Championships open Tuesday night with the 800 freestyle relay competitors beginning at 6 p.m. (CT). The meet will proceed Wednesday via Saturday, with preliminaries starting at 10 a.m., and finals commencing at 5:30 p.m. 

This 12 months’s Championship meet will as soon as once more be streamed stay on NCAA.com. Live outcomes for the meet shall be obtainable via the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championship Central web site.



PANTHERS AT THE 2025 NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Drury males claimed the crew title on the 2025 NCAA Championships earlier than vacating the crown and formally putting third, whereas the DU girls’s program completed because the nationwide runner-up, marking its prime nationwide end since 2021. 

 

Drury took the highest spot within the crew standings with 525 factors, 74 higher than defending champion Tampa, who completed second. McKendree completed third with 349 factors, and Grand Valley State was fourth with 291.5.

 

As anticipated, the ladies’s race to the nationwide championship got here all the way down to the ultimate occasion of the five-day meet. Nova Southeastern’s win within the 400 free relay gave the defending nationwide champs sufficient to get previous the Panthers by 12 factors, profitable 475-463 in one of many closest finishes in meet historical past. Colorado Mesa completed third with 376 factors, and Indianapolis was fourth with 346.

 

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES

• The Drury males crew wil be looking for their 23rd nationwide title and their 21st beneath head coach Brian Reynolds; Reynolds has guided the Panthers to 13 nationwide championships on the NCAA-II degree, together with its most up-to-date win in 2014.
• DU has additionally logged prime three-finishes in five-straight NCAA Championships and 42 top-three finishes general since 1971.
• On the ladies’s facet, DU shall be aiming for its 14th general nationwide crown — all beneath Reynolds’ course — with 10 coming on the NCAA-II degree, with the Panthers’ most up-to-date title coming in 2014.
• Since 1992, the DU girls have recorded 31 top-three finishes in 33 Championship meets, together with three in a row; the Panthers failed to complete among the many prime two groups in simply six of these Championship appearances. 
• Leading the best way for the boys is junior Ivan Adamchuk, who claimed three particular person titles ultimately 12 months’s NCAA meet in Indianapolis, the place he totaled 61 factors to assist the Panthers’ trigger; he gained gold within the 100 again (46.06), 200 again (1:41.18) and 200 IM (1:43.19), whereas additionally incomes All-America honors with DU’s 200 and 400 medley relays.
• Senior Lucas Mineur additionally loved a powerful 2025 Championship run, clocking All-America laurels within the 50 free, 100 free and 200 free, whereas serving to the 400 medley relay crew to a nationwide crown.
• Alvaro Zornoza was part of the Panthers’ runner-up finishes within the 400 free and 800 free relays, along with a second-place particular person end within the 100 again and a third-place exhibiting within the 200 again.
• Yuri Cabral additionally returns to the NCAA Championships after logging a complete 4 particular person All-America honors and 6 relay citations over the previous two nationwide meets.
• Likewise Joao Nogueira shall be capturing for one more standout efficiency on the NCAA meet after logging three-straight prime 5 finishes within the 400 IM and 10 whole particular person All-America honors over the previous three years.
• On the ladies’s facet, the Panthers shall be led by a pair of skilled performers on the nationwide stage in seniors Ashlyn Moore and Maria Fe Munoz, who’ve mixed for twenty-four All-America honors throughout their time at Drury.
• Moore has racked up particular person honors within the final three 50 free competitions on the NCAA meet, along with 9 completely different DU relay groups which have garnered All-America laurels.
• Munoz has logged particular person All-America nods in every of the final three 200 fly, 200 IM and 400 IM occasions on the nationwide meet, along with a sixth-place end within the 200 again final 12 months.
• Gwen Bergum will look to comply with up a a sixth-place end in final 12 months’s 200 breast competitors, in addition to an eighth-place exhibiting within the 400 IM on the 2025 Championships.
• Belen Morales has been a relay standout for the Panthers, serving to three completely different DU squads (400 free, 400 medley and 800 free) to nationwide runner-up finishes ultimately 12 months’s meet.

2026 GLVC CHAMPIONSHIP REVIEW

Despite valiant efforts and battling eventual twin champion Indianapolis all the way down to the wire, Drury’s males’s and girls’s swimming and diving squads completed second on the Great Lakes Valley Conference Swimming and Diving Championships Saturday at Deaconess Aquatic Center.

Drury posted a powerful ultimate day that included Alvaro Zornoza’s GLVC Championship record-breaking time of 1:42.67 within the 200 again and relay wins for each the women and men within the 400 free relay to cap a powerful week in Evansville. Additionally, Lucas Mineur broke a GLVC Championship file within the 50 free, because the senior posted a time of 19.58 to assert gold. 

Indianapolis swept each the boys’s and girls’s crew titles, with the Greyhounds (1853.50) edging the DU males (1632) by 221.5 factors, whereas the UIndy (1882) girls pulled off a slender 32-point victory over the Panthers (1850) to unseat the defending GLVC champs.

The spotlight of the night for Drury was the 1-2 end for the Panthers within the 200 again, with not solely Zornoza’s time eclipsing Patryk Rozenek’s GLVC mark of 1:43.04, but in addition silver-medalist Ivan Adamchuk’s 1:43.01 surpassing the earlier file by the slimmest of margins. Max Hagl (1:46.73) delivered a powerful efficiency for DU as effectively, putting seventh.

Drury additionally turned in robust efforts in sweeping the 2 (400 free) relay occasions, with the ladies’s crew consisting of Belen Morales, Nikol Maniko, Whitney Stortz and Ashlyn Moore posting a victorious time of three:20.93, simply lacking the GLVC Championship file by 0.23 of a second. Likewise, the DU males cruised to a win in the identical occasion, with Marwane Sebbata, Yuri Cabral, Lucas Mineur and Matteo Vissotto handing over a time of two:53.35.

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