Swim and Dive Wraps Up SCIAC Championships

MONTEREY PARK, CA — The University of La Verne swim and dive groups closed out the season on the ultimate day of the 2026 SCIAC Championships

“Resilience best describes our 2026 SCIAC Championship meet performance. 91 of 117 swims were best times. We came back time and time again from challenges this year, and this meet to perform better and faster. Led by our senior class and record-breaking freshman performances to the person, every single swimmer contributed to our success,” mentioned La Verne Head Coach Pat Skehan.

Freshman Jordan Clarke led the Leopards on the meet, including her identify to the La Verne top-five record in each occasion she swam. In her first particular person meet, the 200 particular person medley, she completed fourth on the ULV all-time record with a time of two:14.22, a 1.11-second enchancment. She then took on the 100 breaststroke, scoring tenth with a time of 1:08.39, inserting third on the La Verne all-time record. She completed her particular person efficiency, scoring eleventh within the 200 breaststroke in 2:29.01, placing her fifth within the La Verne all-time record. Beyond her particular person occasions, Clarke contributed to 4 relays, together with beginning with a lifetime greatest within the 200 medley relay, going 30.27 within the breaststroke leg, and ending with a lifetime greatest 55.45, anchoring the 400 free relay. All 4 relays she swam on, 200 medley, 800 freestyle, 400 medley, and 400 freestyle, earned crew bests.

The Leopards posted quicker occasions in seven of 9 relays than eventually 12 months’s championships meet.

After posting a lifetime greatest off the three-meter board to start out the meet, senior Shaun Concepcion did even higher on the one-meter, bettering his lifetime greatest by 68 factors.

Senior Kelly Long demonstrated nice resiliency after battling a mid-season damage. She switched occasions and got here again to be a power, posting lifetime bests in all seven of her occasions, dropping her 1650m freestyle time by over a minute. She additionally had lifetime greatest relay splits, offering the management in all 5 relays.

Senior Jaden Feliciano was the important thing performer in 5 relays, scoring season-bests by large margins, considerably quicker than final 12 months’s efficiency. In addition, he noticed season bests in all three of his particular person occasions, 50 free (21.67), 200 free (1:47.68), and 100 free (48.41).

The Leopards males’s and ladies’s squads completed the meet in ninth place. Pomona-Pitzer captured the lads’s and ladies’s crew titles.