No. 18 Males’s Swimming begins NCAA Championships with All-American 400 medley relay

INDIANAPOLIS – Rising to a second 28 years within the making, the 18th-ranked Salisbury University males’s swimming crew made its large return to the nationwide stage on Day 1 of the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships on Wednesday on the IU Natatorium.
 
The spotlight of the day for the Sea Gulls was the 400-yard medley relay crew of Mason Potts, Dominic Kazzi, Cameron Byrd, and Owen Brewer, who positioned 14th total to earn Second-Team All-America standing. The quartet positioned eleventh in prelims with a time of three:14.98, simply 68 hundredths of a second off the highest eight, and adopted it up with a finals marker of three:16.26. In the method, Potts, Kazzi, Byrd, and Brewer turned the primary SU males’s All-Americans since Chris Bembenek took a pair of honors in 1998.
 
“For our men’s program to have its first NCAA representation since 1998 and to send relay teams for the first time ever is really meaningful,” mentioned Sea Gull head coach Nate Parsley within the run-up to nationals. “It shows how far the program has come, as well as where it’s headed.”
 
Salisbury additionally put two swimmers within the water for 2 particular person preliminaries through the morning session. Byrd raced within the 200 particular person medley, ending thirty fifth in 1:53.28. Potts, in the meantime, competed within the 50 freestyle, tying for thirty fifth in 20.43 seconds.
 
With the six factors earned within the 400 medley relay, SU slotted in a Twenty sixth-place tie within the championship standings after the primary day of competitors.
 
The Sea Gulls are again in motion on the IU Natatorium for Day 2 of the NCAA Championships on Thursday. Preliminaries for the 100 fly and 200 free relay are pegged for 10 a.m. with finals to observe at 6 p.m.
 

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with main membership within the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, together with affiliate membership within the New Jersey Athletic Conference (soccer, males’s & girls’s swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (males’s lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (discipline hockey), and Colonial Women’s Golf Conference (girls’s golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports activities, SU is acknowledged as one of many nation’s best intercollegiate athletics applications no matter division, that includes devoted coaches and employees that foster excellence on and off the sphere. The Sea Gulls have received a mixed 23 crew nationwide championships, 24 particular person nationwide championships, and 207 convention championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

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