Brown Claims Three Wins in Males’s Swimming and Diving 2025-2026 Dwelling Debut

WORCESTER — It was not the home-opener the WPI males’s swimming and diving have been searching for after successful twice on the highway final weekend. In a Halloween match-up, WPI (3-2) defeated Brandeis 204-82, however misplaced to NEWMAC foes Babson (131-162) and Coast Guard (117-178). Despite the defeats, WPI walked away from the meet with a number of prime 5 finishes in addition to trio of victories from first-year Lucas Brown (Viera, FL).
 
Brown began off the night with a dominant displaying within the males’s 1000 freestyle. After a decent opening 500, Brown pulled away from the competitors on the again half and earned himself a win of over ten seconds as he hit the wall in 10:04.30. Later on within the meet, Brown accomplished the gap sweep as he earned prime honors within the 500, as his 4:52.84 was over six seconds away from his nearest competitors. Behind the Floridian within the occasions have been fellow first years Michael Webb (Medway, MA) and Deion Chung (Honolulu, HI), who every earned a pair of sixth place finishes, going 10:55.48 and 5:03.23, respectively. 
 
Brown rounded out his particular person occasions with a victory within the 200 IM. With his tightest margin of victory, .61, the primary yr’s freestyle energy proved to be the distinction as he posted a time of 1:58.38. Taking sixth behind him within the occasion was senior Christopher Smith (Northbridge, MA), who posted a time of two:00.45.
 
Smith opened the meet, swimming the backstroke leg of the A-medley relay, which positioned third general. Joined by Luke Vipond (Mahtomedi, MN), Lucas Pralle (Wayland, MA) and Keegan Rowe (Harpswell, ME), the foursome posted a time of 1:38.41, putting simply forward of WPI B-relay, who touched in 4th general at 1:38.95. In addition to his relay contributions, Smith earned himself a third place end within the 200 again (1:58.96) and was WPI’s second greatest finisher within the 100 again going 54.99 to position fifth. 
 
Two locations forward of him in third was sophomore Angad Ahluwalia (Attleboro, MA), who hit the wall in 54.67. Ahluwalia’s 100 free efficiency was even higher because the sophomore joined Brown on the prime of the outcomes, as his 47.91 from lane 1 was the lone sub-48 second efficiency of the night. He ended his night main off the third place ending 200 free relay, joined by first-year Kuba Latawiec (Newington, CT), sophomore Angelo Reade (Newburgh, NY), and junior Nolan Schlessman (Sudbury, MA), with the quartet going 1:27.54.
 
Adding priceless factors and posting a pair of victories within the diving was sophomore Tom Fitzgerald (East Longmeadow, MA). Fitzgerald posted the lone rating over 200 within the 1m competitors, incomes a rating of 213.50. On the 3m, his 217.40 was once more the lone rating above the 200-point mark. Improving upon his scores from final weekend, first-year Aaron Lakin (Hamden, CT), who positioned 4th in each competitions, scoring 152.40 and 151.40 factors. 
 
WPI returns to motion towards Assumption, Clark, and Holy Cross because the Engineers host the Worcester City Championships on Saturday, the eighth of November, at 10:00am.   
 
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