Byrd secures 100 fly All-America on NCAA Championships Day Two

INDIANAPOLIS – Rookie sensation Cameron Byrd of the 18th-ranked Salisbury University males’s swimming workforce secured his workforce’s second All-America nod of the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships as a part of Day 2 of motion on Thursday on the IU Natatorium.
 
Byrd (Fr. – Bear, Del.) was dubbed a Second-Team All-American within the 100-yard butterfly, including to his Second-Team honor as a member of the 400 medley relay on Wednesday. Byrd swam the occasion in 47.87 within the morning preliminaries, inserting ninth and lacking out on First-Team laurels by a mere two hundredths of a second. In the night finals, Byrd made it official by inserting fifteenth in 48.54 seconds.
 
“Cam has put together an incredible season,” mentioned Sea Gull head coach Nate Parsley within the leadup to nationals. “The time he’s achieved in the 100 butterfly as a freshman speaks to the level he’s capable of racing at. I don’t think he’s done yet, and that’s what’s most impressive about him.”
 
Joining Byrd within the water for the 100 fly was Mason Potts, who positioned thirty second in prelims at 48.87 seconds. The Sea Gull males additionally put collectively a quartet within the 200 freestyle relay; Michael DeSimone, Michael Paulos, Byrd, and Potts teamed up for a 1:21.97 mark that positioned twenty first.
 
Byrd’s two factors give Salisbury eight over the primary two days of the championship meet, good for thirty second within the total workforce standings.
 
The Sea Gulls will line opponents up within the 200 medley relay, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, 200 fly, and 800 free relay on a busy Day 3 on the NCAA Championships on Friday. Preliminaries will start at 10 a.m. and lead into finals at 6 p.m.
 

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with major 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 (area 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 workers that foster excellence on and off the sector. The Sea Gulls have gained a mixed 23 workforce nationwide championships, 24 particular person nationwide championships, and 207 convention championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.

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