GCU Club Swimming takes fifth at CCS Nationals

Greensboro, North Carolina – June 17, 2026 – The Grand Canyon University Club Swimming workforce concluded one other spectacular season with a 5^th-place end at the 2026 TYR College Club Swimming National Championships, held at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Lopes had been led by a powerful ladies’s contingent that completed third, whereas the GCU males completed sixteenth. In complete, 25 Lopes competed amongst a discipline of 143 groups.
 
Lopes’ junior Madison Logue paced the workforce with 93 particular person factors, highlighted by runner-up finishes in each the 200-yard Backstroke and 200-yard Individual Medley. Logue additionally added a third-place end within the 400-yard Individual Medley, giving the Lopes three podium finishes from one swimmer.
 
“Madison has been one of our hardest working athletes the last two years and we are super proud of her and all the work she has put in,” stated GCU Head Coach Jeremy Phung. “She was recently accepted into the nursing program, so it’s been incredible watching her balance academics with athletics. There wasn’t a more deserving person on our nationals squad.”
 
Isabella Parish continued the Lopes’ Women’s success with a third-place end within the 100-yard Breaststroke and a fourth-place end within the 50-yard Breaststroke, totaling 73 factors. Parish additionally performed a key function in GCU’s relay success all through the weekend because the Lopes’ relay groups delivered a number of of this system’s prime performances. The ladies’s 800-yard Freestyle Relay positioned second nationally, whereas the 400-yard Medley Relay (Parish swam the breaststroke portion) earned a third-place end. GCU additionally recorded 5^th-place finishes in each the 200-yard Freestyle Relay and Co-Ed 200-yard Freestyle Relay.
 
“We had a lot of people graduating, so putting together the right relay teams was crucial for us to capitalize this year,” stated Phung. “The team knows how important relays are, and they are good at recognizing that if [the coaches] make changes it’s nothing personal. We work a lot on exchanges during practice and mix things up to make sure everybody is prepared.”
 
Additional scoring performances got here from Lily Wilson, who completed sixth within the 200-yard Individual Medley, and Alexis Hoblet, who positioned seventh within the 200-yard Butterfly. Emma Creager, Julia Larsen, and Madison Lohse additionally contributed invaluable factors all through the three-day championship meet.
 
On the lads’s aspect, Timothy Kenigsberg led the Lopes with 23 factors, highlighted by a Thirteenth-place end within the 100-yard Butterfly. Zachary Cozart added an Eleventh-place end within the 1000-yard Freestyle, whereas Fredrik Larsen scored within the 200-yard Backstroke.
 
The fifth-place end capped one other profitable marketing campaign for GCU Club Swimming, which additionally positioned second at CCS Western Regionals final fall.
 
“A top-5 finish has been something we’ve known our women’s team has been capable of for years, and third exceeded those expectations,” stated Phung. “Our men’s team is smaller than it’s been in the past, but they’ve done a great job to hold their own and work hard despite that. Competition was hard this year, but our veteran athletes really paved the way, and our freshmen came in fresh and excited.”