Hayburn’s NCAA Program Begins Friday

ATLANTA – Loyola University Maryland’s Joe Hayburn will swim within the first of two occasions on the 2026 NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships on Friday at Georgia Tech’s McAuley Aquatic Center.
 
The Greyhounds junior will compete first within the 100 backstroke with the preliminaries beginning at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 27. Finals for the occasion will start at 6 p.m. that night.
 
Hayburn returns to the pool the next day to swim within the 200 backstroke with prelims and finals beginning on the identical instances as Friday. All occasions will stream stay on ESPN+.
 
He is the second Loyola males’s swimmer to earn qualification to the NCAA Championships, following the trail of Ben Cono, ’19, who competed in each the 100 and 200 breaststrokes in 2017, 2018 and was seventeenth in each as a senior in 2019.
 
Hayburn would be the fourth Loyola student-athlete to succeed in NCAA Championships competitors as a person. Kiera Harrison, ’12, certified for an ran within the 2013 NCAA Women’s Cross Country Championship, and Senna Ohlsson, ’21, raced within the 800 meters on the 2021 NCAA East Preliminary Championship, reaching the quarterfinal spherical.
 
The native of Bowie, Maryland, entered the 2025-2026 season because the school-record holder within the 100 backstroke after swimming 46.29 seconds eventually yr’s Patriot League Championships, and he lowered that point on three events throughout the yr.
 
He first went 46.06 in November 2025 on the H2ounds Invitational to reset his college commonplace. He then took greater than a second off his finest by going 44.81 seconds in February throughout the leadoff leg of the 400 medley relay on the Patriot League Championships.
 
Hayburn, who would go on to complete second within the occasion on the Patriot League meet, once more lowered his time to 44.69 seconds to win the 100 bacsktroke on the ECAC Championships final month the place he was named the Men’s Swimmer of the Meet.
 
He enters the NCAA Championships with the Nineteenth-fastest time in NCAA Division I within the occasion.
 
By advantage of his bid to compete within the 100 backstroke, Hayburn additionally earned entry to the 200 backstroke competitors. He set the college file within the occasion with a second-place end on the Patriot League Championships, going 1:40.29 within the ultimate