Bowdoin Swimmers Return Dwelling With A number of All-American Honors

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The Bowdoin males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups got here house from the 2026 NCAA National Championship with a number of All-American opponents.

In all, Bowdoin had a pair of relays earn All-American and two particular person performances land within the top-16. Raphael Grand’Pierre broke a pair of faculty data on the meet and the 400 freestyle relay did, as effectively. The males completed 21^st general. The ladies collected 36^th within the nation.

Meet Highlights

• Harper Stevenson swam the five hundred freestyle to open nationals on Wednesday for the Polar Bears. Elizabeth Walsh and Sydney Lillis each swam within the 200 IM on day one.
• Jack Tran completed in a two-way tie for 25^th within the 50 freestyle qualifier. Tran, Henry Peters, Grand’Pierre, and Getchell Gibbons swam within the 400 medley relay to shut out day one.
• Bowdoin’s outcomes improved on Thursday. Grand’Pierre was spot on for his 100 butterfly seed time of 48.51. Stevenson tied for 28^th in the identical occasion, reducing her seed time to 56.13. Walsh swam within the qualifiers for the 400 IM.
• In the boys’s 200 freestyle relay, Bowdoin certified for finals and improved one spot to complete ninth within the nation. Grand’Pierre, Micah Sher, Peters, and Tran grew to become second staff All-Americans with a 1:20.03 and Grand’Pierre set a brand new faculty document within the 50 free together with his leadoff time of 20.18.
• Stevenson competed in a swim-off within the 200 butterfly on Friday to earn a spot within the night finals. Stevenson got here away with 11^th general and All-American honors with a 2:02.43.
• Tran competed within the 100 backstroke and got here away with a top-20 efficiency.
• Bowdoin’s 200 medley relay swam on Friday morning, comprised of Tran, Peters, Sher, and Grand’Pierre.
• On the ultimate day of competitors, Bowdoin swimmers picked up extra All-American accolades. Grand’Pierre swam a 44.19 within the comfort finals to complete 12^th nationally within the 100 free. Tran swam within the occasion’s qualifiers earlier within the morning.
• Walsh concluded her Bowdoin profession within the 200 breaststroke qualifiers on Saturday morning.
• Bowdoin capped the meet with second staff All-American honors within the males’s 400 freestyle. Gibbons, Sher, Grand’Pierre, and Tran put down a blistering 2:57.92 to win the comfort finals. Grand’Pierre broke one other program document within the course of, swimming the primary 100 in 44.03. The quartet rewrote the document e book with their mixed time.