Delaware, William & Mary take over the lead on the first day of Caa Champs

2025 Caa swimming and diving championship

• February 26 – March 2
• Hampton Virginia Aqueplex
• Psycho leaves
• Central meeting
• Live results on Meet Mobile – “2025 Caa swimming and diving championship”
• Livestream
• Defending champion: Men – UNC Wilmington (3x), women – UNC Wilmington (2x)

The first day of the Colonial Athletic Association Champs was competitive. Mid major teams from the entire middle Atlantic gathered in Hampton, Virginia, for several relay showdowns and a new conference record. With regard to the score, the defending champion Uncw ended the day slightly on Delaware on the side of the men and Delaware and William & Mary on the side of women.

200 Medley Relay

William & Mary started the meeting with a new conference record in the 200 Medley season of women. The team of Julie Addison (25.28), Ellie Scherer (27.49), Lindsay Juhlin (23.27) and Caroline Burgeson (22.44) put together a 1: 38.48, which undercut your own 1: 38.53 record from 2023.

Uncw was in eight tenths behind the trunk for second place. In this season, Cameron Snowden Thrown a quick 23.01 on Butterfly, the fastest of the event. Delaware and Northheasters joined William & Mary as the only team at 1:40 and went 1: 39.66 and 1: 39.87.

At the men's event, Delaware almost competed with a new conference record. Gavin Currie (21.95), Toni Sabev (23.28), DJ Fechtman (20.66) and Matvei Namakonov (18.81) won the event by half a second and went 1: 24.70 to miss her conference record compared to last year, 1: 24.56. Drexel finished second in 1: 25.25. The 1: 25.61 of UNCW was good enough for third place and thanks to Jack Vanhowes 21.37 Backstroke-Lead-Off early in the lead

800 free season

Delaware won in a row by taking the 800 free relay of women. The last time the Blue Hens was 7: 18.57, led by Lauren Hartel (1: 49.20) then Olivia Willemsen (1: 49.54), Anthi Lyra (1: 51.36) and Judy Liu (1: 48.47). William and Mary Anker Flynn TruskettThose divided into 1: 48.31 almost ran down, but it finally came at 0.03.

Northeasters Hannah Seward The fastest separation on the field and 1: 47.81 called up. Your team landed the fourth overall in 7: 20.70

The defenders of men and women, UNCW, achieved the first swimming victory of the meeting in the 800 free season of men. The squad of Jacob Duracinsky (1: 37.55), Shaw Satterfield (1: 35.08), William Carrico (1: 35.53) and Nathan Jao (1: 36.83) combined for a final winning time of 6: 24.99, approx. 1.75 seconds before second place. William & Mary Tribe swimmer Aiden Bond Produced a 1: 34.45 split, the fastest 200 of the final.

At the only diving event of the night, the 1m men, the UNCW Seahawks scored thanks to a 1-2 place Ethan Badrian And Nicholas Newis.

Team values ​​after day 1 points

Men

1. Delaware – 127
2. UNCW – 122
3. Towson – 91
4. Drexel – 77
5. William and Mary – 56
6. Monmouth – 52

Women

1. William and Mary -120
2. Delaware – 118
3. UNCW – 110
4. Northeasters – 104
5. Drexel – 98
6. (T-5) Towson-98
7. Campbell – 90
8. Stony Brook – 84
9. Monmouth – 46