USM Men’s Swimming & Diving Named 2025-26 KCAC Men’s Team of Character

(Leavenworth, Kansas) – The University of Saint Mary males’s swimming & diving crew
has been named the 2025-26 KCAC Men’s Team of Character, the convention workplace introduced
Friday. All KCAC Champions of Character Awards are introduced by IMA Financial Group.

“I’m extremely pleased with our males’s crew for incomes the 2025-26 KCAC Men’s Team of
Character award,” David Bresser, head coach of the Saint Mary men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams, stated. “Competing
at a excessive stage is essential to our program, however simply as essential is the way in which we put together,
assist each other, and symbolize the University of Saint Mary day by day. This honor
really displays the dedication our student-athletes have made to steer with integrity,
serve others, and persistently put the crew first. Our swimmers deliver that very same mindset
to each observe, each meet, and each alternative to compete. This award is a testomony
to the tradition we have constructed collectively right here at USM and to what it means to be a Spire.
They really earned it.”

In February, the Spires have been named the Team of Character for the game of Men’s Swimming.
The Spires had 5 student-athletes earn the KCAC Scholar-Athlete distinction, and
had one swimmer named to the KCAC All-Conference First Team.

In 2025-26, the Spires accrued practically 200 neighborhood service hours, with service
initiatives together with, however not restricted to:

• Operation Christmas Child
• Feed the Need, a program designed to help these in want within the Leavenworth/Lansing
  space.
• Volunteering at native highschool swim meets.
• Making reward baggage for correctional services within the space.
• Making reward baggage for girls’s clinics within the space.

Members of the USM males’s swim crew additionally served in management roles on campus, together with
being residential corridor assistants (RAs), being on the Honors govt council, being
part of the campus STEM Club, being concerned within the Student Government Association,
and being concerned in peer tutoring.
 

The crew loved success on the convention championship, ending in seventh place
as a crew, highlighted by the next people:

• Ian Lucas – Top Four Finishes within the 50 Meter Freestyle, the 100 Meter Freestyle, and the 100
  Meter Fly
• Ian Hein – Top Ten Finishes within the 100 Meter Breaststroke, the 400 Meter Freestyle Relay, the
  800 Meter Freestyle Relay, and the 400 Meter Medley Relay
• Brandon Kendall – Top 10 Finishes within the 200 Meter Fly, the 800 Meter Freestyle Relay, the 200 Meter
  Medley Relay, and the 400 Meter Medley Relay.

“The University of Saint Mary is extremely pleased with our males’s swim crew for being
named the 2025-26 KCAC Men’s Team of Character,” Rob Miller, Vice President of Athletics at Saint Mary, said. “This honor displays a lot extra
than success within the pool, it acknowledges the integrity, management, sportsmanship,
and dedication our Spire student-athletes reveal day by day. Congratulations to
Coach Bresser and his crew on this well-deserved achievement. We are grateful for
the way in which they symbolize the University of Saint Mary and the KCAC with excellence each
out and in of the pool.”

The University of Saint Mary is a Catholic co-educational utilized liberal arts college
based and sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. The University of
Saint Mary foremost campus is situated at 4100 South 4th Street, Leavenworth, Kan. USM-Johnson
County, at 11221 Roe Ave., provides night accelerated graduate and undergraduate degree-completion
applications. The college additionally provides on-line applications. Visit stmary.edu for extra info.