O’Donoghue’s All-America flip highlights No. 20 Ladies’s Swimming’s NCAA keynote

INDIANAPOLIS – With its largest-ever contingent on the nationwide stage, the Twentieth-ranked Salisbury University ladies’s swimming crew did not take lengthy to supply its first All-American of the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships on Wednesday on the IU Natatorium.
 
Rowan O’Donoghue earned Second-Team All-America accolades by ending Sixteenth within the 500-yard freestyle. O’Donoghue (Fr. – Newark, Del.) posted a time of 4:58.26 within the morning’s preliminaries, beating out her closest competitor by one hundredth of a second to position Sixteenth and safe All-America standing. In the night’s finals, she touched the wall in 5:06.33, formally turning into the second All-American in ladies’s program historical past alongside Sydney McCallie, who earned two All-America nods in 2025.
 
“Rowan has emerged as arguably the top freshman in the country,” mentioned Sea Gull head coach Nate Parsley earlier than the beginning of nationals. “She brings a level of fierceness to racing that simply can’t be taught. To see her put together the season she has as a rookie has been incredible.”
 
O’Donoghue’s flip within the 500 free served as a excessive level for Salisbury throughout all 4 of its occasions on the morning. Joining O’Donoghue within the water for the five hundred free was Addi Wood, who positioned thirty third in qualifying with a time of 5:04.02. The 200 particular person medley noticed Maddie Powell (2:11.36) place 59th, whereas within the 50 free, Lily Griffin (24.38) and Libby Miyashita (24.73) slotted sixtieth and 66th, respectively.
 
In the primary relay occasion of the championship meet – the 400 medley relay – Isabelle Salvatore, Mackenzie Gula, Griffin, and O’Donoghue posted a mark of three:54.14, putting twenty fourth.
 
Salisbury earned one level within the championship standings by way of O’Donoghue’s Sixteenth-place end within the 500 free, giving the crew a Twenty fifth-place standing after the primary day of nationals.
 
The Sea Gulls will return to the IU Natatorium on Thursday for Day 2 of the NCAA Championships. Prelims for the 200 free, 100 fly, and 200 free relay will start at 10 a.m. with finals set for six 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 & ladies’s swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (males’s lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (discipline hockey), and Colonial Women’s Golf Conference (ladies’s golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports activities, SU is acknowledged as one of many nation’s best intercollegiate athletics packages no matter division, that includes devoted coaches and employees that foster excellence on and off the sector. 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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