{"id":637888,"date":"2026-03-01T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=637888"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T16:46:58","slug":"unc-wilmington-takes-fifth-straight-mens-caa-title-william-and-mary-women-victorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/unc-wilmington-takes-fifth-straight-mens-caa-title-william-and-mary-women-victorious\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC-Wilmington Takes Fifth Straight Men’s CAA Title; William and Mary Women Victorious"},"content":{"rendered":"

UNC-Wilmington Takes Fifth Straight Men’s CAA Title; William and Mary Women Victorious<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Colonial Athletic Association Swimming and Diving Championships took place over the weekend in Hampton, Va., with the William and Mary women earning a title while the men of UNC-Wilmington picked up their fifth consecutive conference crown in a much tighter competition. On the women’s side, W&M scored 1647 points to defeat UNCW (1415.5) and Towson (1117.5) while the UNCW men had 852.5 points to surpass Towson (789) and Drexel (667.5).<\/p>\n

Women’s Recap<\/strong><\/h3>\n

William and Mary captured its first win in the 800 freestyle relay as Ellie Hunt<\/strong>,\u00a0Flynn Truskett<\/strong>,\u00a0Haley Lehman<\/strong> and\u00a0Tess Lankford<\/strong> posted a time of 7:14.30 to top the field by almost three seconds. Two days later, William and Mary went 1-2 in the 100 breaststroke as\u00a0Lindsay Juhlin<\/strong> took the win in 1:01.11 and\u00a0Sophia Heilen<\/strong> placed second (1:01.45).\u00a0Julie Addison<\/strong> followed that up with a win in the 100 backstroke, touching in 53.13.<\/p>\n

Addison later added a victory in the 200 back, going 1:56.35, and Heilen also swept the breaststroke events, finishing with a time of 2:11.97 in the 200. William and Mary concluded the meet with a conference record in the 400 free relay. The team of Truskett, Hunt, Lehman and\u00a0Caroline Burgeson<\/strong> combined to swim a time of 3:17.39, obliterating the previous conference record of 3:18.95 by more than 1.5 seconds.<\/p>\n

UNC-Wilmington’s women topped the opening event of the meet as\u00a0Maeren McGonigal<\/strong>,\u00a0Gil Shaw<\/strong>,\u00a0Cameron Snowden<\/strong> and\u00a0Alex Tysinger<\/strong> posted a time of 1:37.83 for the win in the 200 medley relay. That crushed the conference and meet record of 1:38.48 set by William and Mary last season, and the runnerup W&M team also beat the old mark by one hundredth.<\/p>\n

Shaw was the winner of the 200 IM, finishing in 2:00.84 to hold off Lankford (2:00.95) by a tenth. One race later, Snowden dominated the 50 free in 22.39. The team of McGonigal, Shaw, Snowden and Tysinger returned to capture the 400 medley relay in 3:35.53, holding off W&M by less than three tenths.<\/p>\n

Snowden claimed victory in the 100 butterfly in 52.06, securing qualification to the NCAA Championships as a conference champion eclipsing the automatic qualifying time of 52.52. Snowden would earn a third individual victor in the 100 free in a time of 48.80. Teammate Olivia Corbi<\/strong> placed first in the 400 IM in 4:17.58.<\/p>\n

Drexel’s\u00a0Brittany Corbett<\/strong> held off the field to capture first place in the 500 free by a half-second, posting a final time of 4:47.79. Later in the meet, Corbett captured first in the 1650 free by more than four seconds in 16:39.96, with teammate Harper Barrowman<\/strong> taking second (16:44.26). Her teammates Mariana Alencar<\/strong>,\u00a0Delaney Leonard<\/strong>,\u00a0Clare Schwartz<\/strong> and\u00a0Megan Ehrnfeldt<\/strong> placed first in the 200 free relay in 1:30.56.<\/p>\n

Towson’s\u00a0Shannon Parrau<\/strong> won 3-meter diving (295.85) as well as 1-meter (280.45), and teammate Addie Scott<\/strong> came through for first in the 200 free in 1:47.47. Northeastern scored a win in the last individual swimming event at\u00a0Mary Nordmann<\/strong> clocked 2:00.29 for first in the 200 fly.<\/p>\n