Swimming & Diving Celebrates 2025-26 at Annual Workforce Banquet – Texas A&M Athletics

COLLEGE STATION – The Texas A&M swimming & diving group celebrated its 2025-26 season on the annual group banquet Saturday afternoon on the Jackie Sherrill Lettermen’s Club at Kyle Field. Following the presentation of group awards, the Aggies acknowledged standout performances within the pool, classroom and group whereas honoring this system’s tradition and management.

Freshman diver Emilio Trevino Laureano was honored for his stellar first season in Aggieland, garnering the Trey Heye Newcomer Award and the Performance of the Year Award for changing into the primary Aggie to win an NCAA Championship within the platform dive.

Logan Brown earned the Most Valuable Player Award on the boys’s aspect after a standout junior marketing campaign. Brown certified for NCAA Championships in three particular person occasions and earned All-America honors with a Thirteenth-place end within the 200 breast. He additionally performed a key position within the Aggies’ relay success, serving to the 200 free relay earn All-America recognition and contributing to a Fifteenth-place end within the 400 free relay.

Senior Kaitlyn Owens was named the ladies’s MVP following an impactful season highlighted by her versatility throughout dash freestyle occasions and relays. Owens contributed to a number of top-performing relay squads all through the season, together with the 200 free relay that positioned twelfth at NCAA Championships. She additionally posted high dash splits, together with a 21.64 within the 50 free and a 48.22 within the 100 free, whereas serving as a constant chief for the Aggies in each competitors and group tradition.

Earning the ladies’s Performance of the Year was the 200 freestyle relay foursome of Owens, Ella McQuinn, Eloise Williamson and Reagan Sherrard for incomes a 12^th place end and All-America honors out of the surface lane on the NCAA Championships.

AJ Robinson and Ella McQuinn had been acknowledged because the Most Improved award winners for his or her respective groups. Robinson made an instantaneous influence in his freshman season, decreasing career-best occasions within the 200 fly (1:43.03) and 400 IM (3:42.96) whereas competing in three occasions at SEC Championships. McQuinn confirmed important progress in her sophomore season, highlighted by a sub-1:00 efficiency within the 100 breast (59.84) at SEC Championships, together with key contributions to a number of relay lineups.

Men’s Award Winners
Most Valuable Player: Logan Brown
Most Improved: AJ Robinson
Aggie Heart Award: Munzy Kabbara
Iron Man Award: Ben Sytsma
Academic Momentum Award: Matt Aigner
Trey Heye Memorial Award: Emilio Trevino Laureano
SEC Community Service Award: Logan Brown
Performance of the Year Award: Emilio Trevino Laureano

Women’s Award Winners
Most Valuable Player: Kaitlyn Owens
Most Improved: Ella McQuinn
Aggie Heart Award: Halina Panczyszyn
Iron Woman Award: Ella McQuinn
Jody Tanner-Hansen Optimist Award: Claire Gass / Hayden Miller
Academic Momentum Award: Gabby Filzen
SEC Community Service: Halina Panczyszyn
Performance of the Year: NCAA 200 Free Relay – 12^th place from exterior lane (Kaitlyn Owens, Ella McQuinn, Eloise Williamson, Reagan Sherrard)