Milestones and All-America {Hardware} Spotlight NJAC’s Greatest Day at NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships

INDIANAPOLIS—New Jersey Athletic Conference swimmers put collectively the perfect day of the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships up to now on Friday on the IU Natatorium, delivering seven All-America performances — together with a number of historic firsts — to spotlight the penultimate session of the four-day meet.
 
WOMEN
 
The 100 backstroke was the spotlight of the ladies’s competitors, with three NJAC swimmers incomes All-America honors in the identical occasion. Kean’s Braelyn Wilson delivered the highest efficiency, touching the wall in 54.30 to position third general and earn her second First Team All-America honor of the meet — and fourth of her profession. Wilson set a faculty report within the course of, ending simply two tenths of a second behind the highest two finishers.
 
Rowan’s Ella Pennington was proper behind her, clocking 54.68 to position fourth and earn First Team All-America recognition for the second straight day. It was the sixth All-America honor of Pennington’s profession, enhancing on her seventh-place end in the identical occasion a 12 months in the past. Kean’s Olivia Chow rounded out the NJAC trio of All-America spots within the occasion, ending tenth in 55.20 to earn Second Team All-America recognition — her second profession All-America honor.
 
Salisbury’s 800 freestyle relay crew of Alexa Hilty, Rowan O’Donoghue, Jenna Krawlzik and Olivia Polucha turned in a powerful efficiency as nicely, ending 18th general in 7:36.13 — lacking Second Team All-America honors by lower than a second. Kean’s 200 medley relay crew of Braelyn Wilson, Abby Burns, Olivia Chow and Emma Bellars completed twenty second in 1:44.79, whereas Salisbury’s quartet of Isabelle Salvatore, Mackenzie Gula, Lily Griffin and Rowan O’Donoghue positioned twenty fifth in 1:45.67.
 
Salisbury’s Libby Miyashita positioned twenty first within the 200 butterfly at 2:05.06. Mary Washington’s Soleil Clifford completed thirty eighth within the 100 breaststroke at 1:06.31, and Salisbury’s Maddie Powell positioned forty first in 1:06.67.
 
MEN
 
The males’s competitors featured a pair of historic milestones and a standout particular person efficiency. USMMA’s Carter Kov capped his outstanding freshman marketing campaign with a First Team All-America efficiency in 1-meter diving, posting 486.60 factors to position fifth general. Kov was the highest freshman within the occasion, edging Kenyon’s Chase Smith for that distinction. Combined together with his Second Team All-America honor from the 3-meter occasion on Day One, Kov concludes his first collegiate championship with two All-America citations.
 
Salisbury’s 200 medley relay crew of Mason Potts, Dominic Kazzi, Michael Paulos and Michael DeSimone made historical past, changing into the primary swimmers within the historical past of both the Salisbury males’s or girls’s program to earn First Team All-America recognition. The quartet clocked 1:29.15 within the ultimate to position seventh general, capping a day that started with an eighth-place prelim end that first secured their spot within the A ultimate and their place in program historical past.
 
TCNJ’s 200 medley relay crew of Andrew Kidchob, Tyler McGeehan, Joe McChesney and M.J. Hoban earned First Team All-America honors of their very own, clocking 1:27.93 to complete sixth general.
 
McChesney additionally added a Second Team All-America honor within the 200 butterfly, breaking his personal program report twice in someday — first posting a 1:47.31 within the prelims earlier than decreasing it to 1:47.25 within the ultimate to position ninth general.
 
TCNJ’s Andrew Kidchob earned his eighth profession All-America honor within the 100 backstroke, inserting thirteenth in 48.46 for Second Team recognition in what was the ultimate particular person occasion of his collegiate profession.
 
The Lions’ 800 freestyle relay crew of Steven Bendoraitis, Matt Liotti, Kyle Brushaber and Gabe Beverini added Second Team All-America honors with a Sixteenth-place end in 6:39.60 — with Liotti, Brushaber and Beverini every incomes the primary All-America quotation of their careers.
 
Cameron Byrd of Salisbury positioned Twentieth within the 200 butterfly at 1:48.43, whereas Salisbury’s Dominic Kazzi positioned twenty third within the 100 breaststroke at 55.32 and TCNJ’s Tyler McGeehan tied for Twentieth in the identical occasion at 54.99.
 
Looking Ahead to Day Four
 
The championships conclude on Saturday with the ultimate session on the IU Natatorium. On the ladies’s facet, Salisbury’s Addi Wood and Rowan’s Kaitlyn Crouthamel swim the 1650 freestyle, Salisbury’s Rowan O’Donoghue competes within the 100 freestyle, Rowan’s Ella Pennington and Kean’s Olivia Chow are entered within the 200 backstroke, and Salisbury’s Maddie Powell swims the 200 breaststroke. Salisbury and Kean every subject 400 freestyle relay groups to shut out the ladies’s competitors. On the lads’s facet, TCNJ’s Gavin Formon and Steven Bendoraitis swim the 1650 freestyle, M.J. Hoban competes within the 100 freestyle, and Tyler McGeehan is entered within the 200 breaststroke. TCNJ closes the meet with its 400 freestyle relay.