LANCASTER, Pa. – Twelve members of the Gettysburg men's swimming team have been named to the All-Centennial Conference (CC) team by virtue of their finishes at the championship on Feb. 20-23.
Freshman
Evan Graham (Crofton, Md./The Key School) led the Bullets on the all-conference team, claiming conference Rookie of the Year honors in a voting of the coaches. He is the first Gettysburg men's swimmer to earn the honor since 2017 and first since it became a vote of conference coaches in 2023. Graham won two gold medals at the championship meet, including posting a program-, conference- and championship-record time in the 400 IM on Saturday night.
Graham,
Connor Booth (Wallingford, Conn./Suffield Academy),
Edward Kim (Weston, Conn./Weston),
Connor Mangan (Pipersville, Pa./Central Bucks West) and
Harry Nelson (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg Area) earned first-team honors. Graham, Mangan,
Mason Dillon (Hummelstown, Pa./Lower Dauphin),
Ethan Keiner (Ellicott City, Md./Marriotts Ridge),
Max McAlister (Powell, Ohio/Olentangy),
Trey Mitchell (Rehoboth Beach, Del./Sussex Academy),
Sam Nelson (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg Area) and
Lorenzo Zullo (Norwalk, Conn./Norwalk) earned second-team accolades while Booth, Keiner, Zullo and
Connor Tiffin (Elkridge, Md./McDonogh School) were honorable mention honorees.
Graham won two gold individual gold medals on Saturday night, winning the 400 IM and 100 backstroke. He flew to an NCAA B-Cut, championship, conference and program-record time of 3:56.26 to win the 400 IM before adding another B-Cut time in the 100 back, taking runner-up with a time of 49.22 seconds. He also picked up a silver on Sunday, finishing second to his teammate in the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:47.68.
Mangan earned an individual gold medal on Sunday night, touching first in the 200 backstroke. Mangan posted a conference-, championship- and program-record time of 1:47.15 to also earn an NCAA B-Cut. He also grabbed a silver on Friday night, breaking a 10-year-old program record in the 200 IM prelims with a time of 1:50.90 before bettering his own program record with a time of 1:50.30.
Harry Nelson won the gold medal in the 1650 freestyle, opening Sunday night with a time of 15:54.85.
Dillon claimed a silver medal in the 200 breaststroke on Sunday night with a time of 2:03.65.
McAlister grabbed silver in the 100 butterfly on Saturday night with a program-record time of 49.23 seconds.
Sam Nelson turned in silver-medal showings in the distance events. On Friday night, he was runner-up in the 500 freestyle with a time of 4:33.11 before finishing second to his teammate and older brother on Sunday night in the 1,650 free with a time of 15:56.66.
Zullo walked away from the weekend with an individual silver and bronze. On Saturday night, he earned a silver medal in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 56.34 seconds. On Sunday night, he was second in the 100 freestyle with a time of 45.51.
Booth picked up a bronze medal in the 200 freestyle on Saturday night with a time of 1:41.58.
Keiner was third in the 50 freestyle on Friday night, claiming bronze with a time of 20.89 seconds.
Tiffin brought home bronze in the 400 IM on Saturday night with a time of 4:00.90.
The 800 free relay claimed gold on Thursday night. The quartet of Mangan, Kim, Graham and Booth combined for the Bullets' first win in the event in a decade with a time of 6:43.47.
Both medley relay added silver medals on the weekend. Graham, Zullo, McAlister and Keiner opened the championship on Thursday night with a silver in the 200, posting a time of 1:30.61. Mangan, Mitchell, McAlister and Keiner then closed Friday night with a silver in the 400 (3:21.27).
-Go Bullets-