DSU Swim and Dive Full Day one on the NSISC Championships

PENSACOLA, Fla. — The Delta State University Swimming & Diving program opened the 2026 New South Intercollegiate Swimming Conference Championships with a powerful displaying on Tuesday evening, highlighted by a pair of podium finishes and a slim race within the workforce standings after Day 1.

Women: Statesmen Sit Second After Relay Action

The Lady Statesmen wasted no time making their presence felt within the pool, incomes a runner-up end within the 4×200-yard freestyle relay to open the championship.

The quartet of Kennedy Cleasant, Rhianna Foster, Kaley Davis, and Aspen Shipp mixed for a time of 7:28.75, securing second place within the A-Final and 34 workforce factors. Cleasant led off with a powerful 1:52.77 break up, whereas Shipp anchored the relay in 1:50.04 to carry off the competitors and maintain Delta State in hanging distance of first-place West Florida.

Delta State additionally picked up beneficial depth factors within the B-Final, as Ave Owens, Janne Bodemer, Jessica Gannon, and Mikayla Kloth turned in a time of 7:35.90, ending ninth general.

Through two occasions, the Lady Statesmen sit in second place with 52 factors, simply two factors behind the University of West Florida (54). Ouachita Baptist (44) and Henderson State (40) spherical out the workforce standings.

Men: Podium Finish Keeps Statesmen in Contention

On the lads’s facet, Delta State earned a third-place end within the 4×200-yard freestyle relay to shut out the night.

The workforce of Austin Huffhines, Adam Rickert, Lars Hetzel, and Mateus Franco clocked a 6:40.84 within the A-Final. Huffhines opened in 1:38.66, whereas Franco delivered a 1:38.43 anchor leg because the Statesmen secured 32 important workforce factors in a tightly contested race.

Delta State’s B relay squad of Kacper Mochnal, Kostantin Ilijic, Ashtin Wallace, and Sergio Rodriguez Rodriguez added depth with a time of 6:54.07, ending eleventh general.

After the primary day of competitors, the Statesmen stand third within the males’s workforce standings with 44 factors, trailing Ouachita Baptist (54) and Henderson State (52).

Up Next

The 2026 NSISC Swimming & Diving Championships proceed Wednesday with preliminary heats within the morning adopted by finals within the night as Delta State seems to shut the slim hole in each workforce races.