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

THE SKINNY STORY
Gettysburg had a pair of 2-3 finishes in a modified Sunday schedule to finish second in the team standings at the 2026 Centennial Conference men's swimming championship. The Bullets accumulated 13 medals, nine NCAA B-Cut times and five program records as part of their 726 points at the championship.

THE LEADERS
• Evan Graham (Crofton, Md./The Key School) earned the Bullets' lone gold medal of the championship, bettering his program-, conference-, championship- and NCAA B-Cut time in the 400 IM. He also took individual silver medals in the 100 and 200 backstroke.

FOR THE FOES
• Johns Hopkins, competing in the conference championship for the first time, outdistanced the field to win its first title with 940.5 points. Swarthmore saw its run of four straight titles come to an end, placing third with 675 points.

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, 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.

SATURDAY RECAP:
• Ethan Keiner, Lorenzo Zullo, Connor Booth and Toby Winston opened up the Saturday night session with a bronze medal in the 200 free relay, combining for a time of 1:21.55 to rank fifth in program history. It was the fastest relay time by a Gettysburg quartet since 2015. Keiner moved into third place on the program's all-time 50 free list, splitting a time of 20.34 seconds on the leadoff leg.
• Evan Graham took another 1.57 seconds off his conference and program record and nearly eight seconds off his championship record from last season, taking the Bullets' first gold of the championship in the 400 IM. He also bettered his NCAA B-Cut time with a mark of 3:52.45 to win the event for the second straight year after qualifying second. Connor Tiffin placed eighth with a time of 4:05.39.
• McAlister placed sixth in the 100 fly with a time of 49.40 seconds while Griffin Koester was 10th out of the B-Finals with a time of 49.37 seconds.  Koester's time is second all-time in program history.
• Winston and Keiner went 4-5 in the 200 free. Keiner fastest prelim time, ranking fifth in program history with a time of 1:39.88 before falling to fifth with a time of 1:41.16 in the finals. Winston posted a time of 1:40.48 to place fourth and record the No. 6 time in program history. Kellen Booth, Davis Hottle and John Verosko all competed in the B-Finals, finishing within 0.19 seconds of each other. Booth was 11th (1:42.84), Hottle was 12th (1:42.90) and Verosko was 13th (1:43.03).
• Jackson Schundler finished fifth in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 56.55 seconds while Connor Booth was seventh with a time of 56.81 seconds. Zullo won the consolation final with a time of 56.27, which ranks third in program history. Ben Campet placed 12th with a time of 58.07. Booth's time is seventh in program history while Campet's prelim time of 57.58 ranks ninth.
• Graham added a second program record on the night but had to settle for silver in the 100 backstroke with his time of 47.86 seconds, just 0.16 seconds off the gold-medal and conference-record time. Koester and Ben Butterfield finished seventh (49.86) and eighth (50.28), respectively. Edward Kim won the B-Final with a time of 50.97 seconds, which ranks seventh in program history. Koester and Butterfield both had faster times in the prelims, both of which are in the top-five all-time. Koester's time of 49.78 is fourth while Butterfield's time of 49.94 is fifth.

SUNDAY RECAP:
• With impending weather, the decision was made to contest the final day as timed finals only instead of the normal preliminaries and finals. Evan Graham and Connor Mangan took advantage of that change out of the gate, swimming next to each other in the 200 backstroke and coming to the wall at the same time to share the silver medal. The duo both touched in NCAA B-Cut times of 1:46.30. For Mangan, it was his best time and the No. 2 mark in program history. Ben Butterfield turned in the fourth-best mark in program history with a fifth-place finish in a time of 1:48.90. Connor Tiffin placed 10th with a time of 1:52.95 while Edward Kim was 11th in a time of 1:53.17. Charter Sasseville finished 13th (1:54.13).
• Ethan Keiner and Toby Winston kept it going with a 2-3 finish in the 100 free. Keiner grabbed the silver with a time of 45.10 seconds while Winston took the bronze in a time of 45.18. The marks rank third and fourth, respectively, in program history and are the fastest 100 free times for a Bullet swimmer since 2018. Lorenzo Zullo placed ninth (46.08) and Connor Booth was 13th (46.34).
• Ben Campet turned in the No. 8 time in program history in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:07.32, placing seventh. Jackson Schundler finished 14th with a time of 2:12.63.
• Mangan bettered his 200 fly record by more than a half-second, earning the bronze with a time of 1:50.49. Butterfield was right behind him with the No. 2 time in program history to finish fourth with a time of 1:50.56, which also would have broken the previous record. Griffin Koester placed seventh (1:53.12) while Max McAlister was ninth (1:54.08).
• Sam Nelson recorded his second fourth-place distance finish, finishing the 1650 free with a time of 16:05.03. John Verosko finished sixth with a time of 16:18.07. Kellen Booth placed eighth with the No. 9 time in program history, touching with a time of 16:23.61. His 1000 split was also ninth all-time (9:54.47). Davis Hottle and Charter Sasseville placed ninth (16:34.29) and 10th (16:44.89), respectively.
• The 400 free relay surged a silver medal to close out the championship. The quartet of Winston, Graham, Zullo and Keiner combined for the No. 2 time in program history, breaking the three-minute mark for the first time since 2015 and recording an NCAA B-Cut time with a mark of 2:59.04. Kellen Booth, Butterfield, Kim and Mangan finished 11th with a time of 3:05.28 in the B Final.

NEXT UP
The swimmers who have been invited to the NCAA Div. III championship will be announced on Thursday.