Males’s Swimming & Diving End Fifth at NCAA Championships

The Emory University males’s swimming & diving group’s season got here to an finish Saturday night time because the 2026 NCAA Championships concluded in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Eagles tallied yet one more podium end on the ultimate night time of competitors in addition to three Second Team All-America finishes, bringing the group’s four-day whole to 12 First Team All-America performances to associate with 13 Second Team All-America nods. At the conclusion of the NCAA Championships, Emory compiled 275 factors to complete fifth within the group standings. Denison University gained the group title with 437 factors adopted by NYU (388.5), UChicago (353) and Kenyon (299).

Sophomore Ben Pritchard collected his second All-America honor of the week as he highlighted the boys’s squad on the ultimate night time of occasions. The distance specialist posted a time of 15:29.06 to come back in fourth place within the 1,650 Freestyle to begin the night’s festivities.

Additionally, sophomore Zachary Spicer and senior Henri Bonnault added to Emory’s level whole with their particular person performances with Spicer taking 14^th within the 200 Backstroke at 1:47.19 and Bonnault going for 1:59.87 within the 200 Breaststroke to put 12^th.

In the ultimate occasion of the season, the group of graduate college students Jared Zhang, Crow Thorsen and juniors McKee Thorsen and Hayden Tupper led the Eagles to an 11^th place exhibiting within the 400 Freestyle Relay because the group registered a time of two:58.61.

The group’s fifth place end marks the 25^th consecutive season the Eagles positioned inside the highest 5 on the NCAA Championships.