Navy Sends Five to This Week’s NCAA Males’s Swimming Championship

Men’s Swimming & Diving | 3/24/2026 8:37:00 AM

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The largest contingent of Navy swimmers to qualify for particular person occasions on the NCAA Championship in a era heads to Atlanta this week for the nationwide championship.  Five Mids will participate within the meet that runs Wednesday by Saturday on the McAuley Aquatic Center on the Georgia Tech campus.

The final time Navy certified as many as 5 particular person occasion swimmers for the NCAA Championship was when 5 competed on the 1970 occasion.  In addition to their mixed 9 particular person occasions, Ben Denman-Grimm, Ben Irwin, Dean Jones, Chase Maier and Michael Phillips additionally will comprise entires in 4 relay occasions.

ESPN+ will present a video stream of the day by day 10 a.m. preliminary heats and the 6 p.m. session of championship finals.  Links to these streams and to dwell outcomes from the meet could be discovered at NavySports activities.com.

The new qualifying procedures for the meet offered automated berths to swimmers who gained the convention championship in an occasion with a profitable time that met or bettered a nationwide normal.  That meant the Mids all certified for the meet with their respective profitable efforts in the course of the Patriot League Championship.  Those Mids additionally will be capable to compete in further occasions wherein that they had posted a qualifying time sooner or later in the course of the season. 

Irwin earned automated qualification by profitable the 100 fly and 200 again finals on the Patriot League Championship.  He additionally will be capable to swim in a 3rd occasion, the 100 again.  This might be Irwin’s second-straight nationwide championship as he beforehand certified for the 2025 meet in the identical three occasions.  

Denman-Grimm superior by profitable the 50 free last on the league meet and likewise certified for the 100 free occasion by his finest time on the yr.  Jones earned his invitation by profitable the five hundred free title on the Patriot League Championship, which additionally permits him to compete within the 200 free.  Maier punched his ticket to Atlanta by profitable the 1650 free and Phillips garnered qualification by profitable the 200 breast title.

Navy’s 200 medley relay crew earned an invitation to the championship by assembly the automated qualifying time with its profitable clocking on the Patriot League Championship.  Navy’s 200 free, 400 free and 400 medley relay groups additionally will be capable to compete on the championship by their assembly the provisional qualifying time of their occasions.

Wednesday

1650 free – Chase Maier; 200 medley relay

Thursday

100 fly – Ben Irwin; 200 free – Dean Jones; 200 free relay

Friday

100 again – Ben Irwin; 200 breast – Michael Phillips; 500 free – Dean Jones; 50 free – Ben Denman-Grimm; 400 medley relay

Saturday

100 free – Ben Denman-Grimm; 200 again – Ben Irwin; 400 free relay