Egan Leads Iona Swim at Day 1 of NIC Meet

OCALA, FL – Junior Kieran Egan paced the Iona males’s contingent to a robust begin on the 2026 National Invitational Championships in Ocala, Florida, on Thursday. The meet, sponsored by the College Swim Coaches Association of America, options greater than 60 groups from throughout the United States representing over a dozen conferences.

The Sunnyside, NY native anchored the 200-yard Freestyle Relay quartet of Harry Platt (20.98), Nick Patino (19.73), Nate Wales (19.77), and Egan (19.72) to a seventh-place end and a faculty document time of 1:20.20. The earlier mark of 1:20.73 was set on the 2024 MAAC Championships in Geneva, Ohio, by the staff of Michael Faughnan, Wales, Patino, and Liam Pyatt.

Egan additionally reached the finals of the 50-yard Backstroke, posting a 22.02 for fifth place, and later returned to take fifteenth within the 50-yard Freestyle with a 20.30.

Classmate Noah Giunta completed seventeenth within the 200-yard Individual Medley with a time of 1:50.50.

In the 400-yard Medley Relay, Owen Znachowski (50.54), Max Buchen (56.80), Giunta (49.72), and Platt mixed for twenty third place with a time of three:21.86.

Other Iona males competing included Buchen, who was forty third within the 50-yard Breaststroke at 26.43; Wyatt Julian, thirty first within the 50-yard Backstroke at 23.06; Patino, twenty seventh within the 50-yard Freestyle at 20.46; and Wales, who completed twenty fourth within the 50-yard Backstroke at 22.87 and thirty sixth within the 50-yard Freestyle at 20.75.

On the ladies’s aspect Sophomore Raegan O’Brien made her first NIC look with a profession finest time trial effort within the 500-Free at 5:09.39 as did freshmen Victoria Mordaunt within the 50-Butterfly at 25.18. Mordaunt additionally was 39th within the 50-Breaststroke at 29.59.

In the staff standings, Queens University (298.5), Ohio State (237.5), Grand Canyon (197.5), Duke (147), George Washington (139), and Kentucky (135.5) maintain the highest six spots. The Iona males sit in 18th place with 79.5 factors.

MAAC rivals Marist (49), Niagara (43), and Mount Saint Mary’s (42) are at present twenty second, twenty third, and twenty fourth, respectively.

Day two of the three-day meet on the Florida Aquatic Swimming and Training Center resumes at 9:30 a.m. with the 400-yard Individual Medley, 100-yard Butterfly, 200-yard Freestyle, 100-yard Breaststroke, 100-yard Backstroke, and the 800-yard Freestyle Relay.