EMMITSBURG, Md. (December 4, 2025) – Mount St. Mary's men's and women's swimming and diving head to the Nassau County Aquatics Center in East Meadow, New York for the 2025 Eastern College Athletic Conference championships from December 5-7. The Mountaineers return to the pool off the back of a great dual-meet in Emmitsburg against Howard ON November 14 which saw the men's team beat the Bison 139.5-138.5.
 
MOUNT UPDATE
 
Against Howard Julie Uecker placed first in the women's one-meter diving event with a final score of 167.40 followed by a debut effort from Madison Garcia who tallied a final score of 85.30. Carmen Del Aguila placed first in the women's 400-Meter Freestyle with a time of 4:36.10. Del Aguila also broke the team meters record in the women's 200-Meter Freestyle with a time of 2:08.34, breaking Catriona Coppler's record set in 2012. Hanna Aggen placed third in the women's 50-Meter Backstroke with a time of 30.88. And Christina Lazari recorded a first place finish in the women's 100-Meter Breaststroke with a time of 1:14.30. The women's 200-Meter Freestyle Relay team of Lazari, Eve Phillips, Madison Murphy, and Theodora Kanellopolou placed third in the event with a final time of 1:49.97. The 200-Meter Medley Relay team of Aggen, Lazari, Phillips, and Murphy came second in the even with a time of 1:58.87.
 
In the men's 50-Meter Freestyle event, Lucas Hancock logged a time of 23.60, breaking the previous pool record for the event set by Rider's Billy Ruddy on January 16 of this past year. The men's 200-Meter Medley Relay team of Todor Gospodinov, Adam Jozsa, Parker Koenig, and Austin Toland won the event with a time of 1:44.08. Gospodinov went on to win the men's 50-Meter Backstroke with a time of 27.07, with Jozsa following his relay partner up with a 29.21 first place finish in the men's 50-Meter Breaststroke. Gospodinov also broke John Wilson's 2019 men's 200 Individual Medley Relay record with a time of 2:10.78, winning the event. In the final event of the day, the relay team of Toland, Koenig, Antonio Gurri, and Lucas Hancock placed first in the men's 200-Meter Freestyle Relay with a time of 1:34.25, with the team of Drew Beabout, Brendan Moran, John Haskins, and Isaac Hancock placing third as the youngest of the Hancock brothers touching the wall less than a millisecond before the pursuing Bison relay team, securing the win for the men at the death against Howard.
 
THE FIELD AT ECAC'S
 
At the winter championships, the Mountaineers will dive and swim against a field of 13 other schools including Baruch, Iona, NJIT, Bridgeport, Siena, Sacred Heart, Central Connecticut, Felician, Hunter, Manhattan, Stony Brook, LIU, and Adelphi.