THE FACTS
Gettysburg sits second
What: Centennial Conference men's swimming championship
When: Thursday-Sunday, Feb. 19-22
Where: Lancaster, Pa.

THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg claimed three silver medals and twice broke the program record in the 400 medley relay to vault into second place in the team standings after the second day of the 2026 Centennial Conference men's swimming championship. The Bullets have 234 points, 10 ahead of Swarthmore and 109.5 behind leader Johns Hopkins.

THURSDAY RECAP:
• Connor Mangan (Pipersville, Pa./Central Bucks West), Jackson Schundler (Charlottesville, Va./Western Albemarle), Griffin Koester (Purcellville, Va./Woodgroove) and Edward Kim (Weston, Conn./Weston) finished 11th overall with a time of 1:31.51 in the B Finals, ranking ninth in program history. The Bullets' A relay was disqualified.
• Toby Winston (Winchester, Va./Sherando), Evan Graham (Crofton, Md./The Key School), Connor Booth (Wallingford, Conn./Suffield Academy) and Mangan shattered the program record in the 800 free relay, claiming the silver medal with a time of 6:38.32. The NCAA B-Cut time broke the 2013 program record by 3.71 seconds. John Verosko (Gainesville, Va./Patriot), Kellen Booth (Wallingford, Conn./Suffield Academy), Davis Hottle (Lynchburg, Va./Virginia Episcopal School) and Connor Tiffin (Elkridge, Md./McDonogh School) combined to turn in a time of 6:51.94 in the B relay and place 11th overall.

FRIDAY RECAP:
• Sam Nelson (Gettysburg, Pa./Gettysburg Area) opened Friday night with a fourth-place finish in the 500 free, posting a time of 4:36.37, improving his prelims time by 1.90 seconds and place by one spot. John Verosko also improved his prelim time by 0.23 seconds but fell to sixth place in the A-Finals with a time of 4:37.62. Davis Hottle rounded out the A-Final, placing eighth with a time of 4:44.05. Kellen Booth and Charter Sasseville (North Yarmouth, Maine/Greely) were both in the B-Finals, placing 10th (4:39.84) and 13th (4:41.09), respectively.
• Connor Mangan claimed silver in the 200 IM, coming up just 0.29 seconds off gold nearly chasing down Johns Hopkins' Larry Yu in the final 25 yards. Mangan hit an NCAA B-Cut with a collegiate-best time of 1:49.59 and improving his No. 2 all-time mark in program history. The Bullets had a trio of swimmers in the B-Finals. Connor Tiffin (Elkridge, Md./McDonogh School) was 10th (1:54.07) while Edward Kim and Ben Campet (Centreville, Va./Westfield) were 15th (1:56.84) and 16th (1:58.87) to round out the consolation finals.
• Ethan Keiner made it back-to-back Gettysburg silver medals, finishing second in the 50 free with a time of 20.41 seconds after a previous personal-best time of 20.44 seconds in the prelims. The mark ranks fourth in program history. Toby Winston made it into the A-Finals and placed seventh with a time of 21.05 seconds. Lorenzo Zullo (Norwalk, Conn./Norwalk) won the consolation final with a time of 20.63 seconds, which ranks fifth in program history. Connor Booth placed 11th (20.98) and Max McAlister (Powell, Ohio/Olentangy) was 14th (21.20).
• The two 400 medley relays closed out the night with the top two times in program history. Mangan, Schundler, Ben Butterfield (Henrico, Va./St. Christopher's School) and Winston combined to take the B-Relay to a program record by a second with a time of 3:18.33, winning the consolation final. Mangan led off the relay, splitting 48.70 seconds for the No. 2 all-time mark in the 100 back. That record held for about five minutes until the A-Relay jumped in the water. Evan Graham, Connor Booth, McAlister and Keiner combined for an NCAA B-Cut time of 3:15.91 to smash the program record and earn the silver medal. Graham's opening 100 back split of 48.13 seconds was his second-fastest 100 back time of the year. Both Mangan and Graham's time improved their NCAA B-Cut marks in the event.

NEXT UP
The championship continues on Saturday with preliminaries beginning at 10 a.m. with finals set for 6 p.m.