Two Earn Main Awards as Girls’s Swimming Collects 15 All-Conference Choices

PITMAN, N.J. (3/31/26) – Braelyn Wilson has been named the New Jersey Athletic Conference Swimmer of the Year, whereas Head Coach Chris Swenson and his workers (Stephanie Judge, David Kessel, Louis Petrozziello, Steve Swenson and Laney Fenton) have been tabbed the NJAC Coaching Staff of the Year because the Kean University girls’s swimming crew earned 15 All-NJAC alternatives as introduced by the convention workplace immediately.

Wilson turns into the second swimmer in program historical past to take dwelling the convention’s high honor, becoming a member of Naomee Miller (2022-23). The sophomore additionally turns into the primary in program historical past to seize each main awards within the Swimmer and Rookie of the Year honors. Wilson earned a complete of eight alternatives, together with 4 first crew alternatives (50 Free, 100 Back, 200 Free Relay and 400 Medley Relay). The New Hampshire native additionally picked up three second crew honors (100 Free, 200 Free Relay and 200 Medley Relay).

Swenson and his workers picked up the highest honor on the coaches’ aspect as this system had 5 chosen to Nationals. The program noticed a Seventeenth-place end, three podium finishes and 5 All-American alternatives.  Swenson was additionally named NJAC Coach of the Year in 2022-23.

Individually, the second crew honors have been Olivia Chow (100 Back, 200 Back and 200 IM). The honorable point out honorees have been Ashley Konz (200 Back), Abby Burns (100 Breast, 200 Breast) and Emma Bellars (200 IM).

The Cougars additionally collected honorees with the relay groups as nicely. The 200 Free Relay crew (Wilson, Bellars, Sydney Stemley and Chow), and 400 Medley Relay crew (Wilson, Burns, Chow and Bellars) have been first crew alternatives. The 400 Free Relay crew (Chow, Bellars, Stemley and Wilson) and 200 Medley Relay Team (Wilson, Burns, Chow, and Bellars) have been second crew alternatives. The 800 Free Relay crew (Taylor Jacobson, Stemley, Burns and Konz) have been chosen to the honorable point out.