LANCASTER, Pa. – Seven 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. 19-22.
Sophomore
Evan Graham (Crofton, Md./The Key School) led the Bullets on the all-conference team, claiming conference Swimmer of the Year honors in a voting of the coaches. The 2025 Rookie of the Year, he is the first Gettysburg swimmer to earn the honor 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 was a first-team selection while Graham,
Connor Booth (Wallingford, Conn./Suffield Academy),
Ethan Keiner (Ellicott City, Md./Marriotts Ridge),
Connor Mangan (Pipersville, Pa./Central Bucks West),
Max McAlister (Powell, Ohio/Olentangy),
Toby Winston (Winchester, Va./Sherando) and
Lorenzo Zullo (Norwalk, Conn./Norwalk) earned second-team accolades. Mangan and Winston were honorable mention honorees.
Graham won gold on Saturday night, taking another 1.57 seconds off his conference and program record and nearly eight seconds off his championship record from last season, bettering his NCAA B-Cut time in the 400 IM with a mark of 3:52.45 to win the event for the second straight year. He also added individual silver medals in the 100 and 200 backstrokes. In the 100 back on Saturday, he added a second program record but had to settle for silver in the 100 backstroke with his NCAA B-Cut time of 47.86 seconds, just 0.16 seconds off the gold-medal and conference-record time. The next day, he tied for silver in the 200 back with an NCAA B-Cut time of 1:46.30.
Mangan had one of his two silver medals in the 200 back with his teammate. He posted the NCAA B-Cut time of 1:46.30 after a silver on Friday night in the 200 IM, coming up just 0.29 seconds off gold. 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. He rounded out his individual weekend with a bronze in the 200 butterfly, bettering his 200 fly record by more than a half-second with a time of 1:50.49.
Keiner also brought home two individual silver medals, finishing second in the 50 and 100 freestyles. On Friday in the 50, he finished second with a time of 20.41 seconds. On Sunday, he nabbed silver in the 100 with a time of 45.10 seconds.
Winston rounded out the individual medalists with a bronze medal in the 100 free, finishing with a time of 45.18.
Three of the five relays finished second over the weekend, claiming silver and second-team all-conference honors.
On Thursday night, Winston, Graham, Booth 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.
The next night, the 400 medley relay of Graham, Booth, McAlister and Keiner combined for an NCAA B-Cut time of 3:15.91 to smash the program record, which the B-Relay had just reset in the previous heat, and earn the silver medal.
The 400 free relay surged a silver medal to close out the championship on Sunday. 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.
Graham and Mangan will both swim at the NCAA Div. III championship meet because of the B-Cut times swam at the conference championship.
-Go Bullets-