Drury Men Cap Thursday With New NCAA D2 Record in 400 Medley Relay

2025 NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championship

• March 11-15, 2025
• IU Natatorium — Indianapolis, IN 
• SCY (25 Yards) 
• Defending Champions: 
  • Women: Nova Southeastern (2x)
  • Men: University of Tampa (1x)
• Women’s Psych Sheets
• Men’s Psych Sheets
• Live Results 
• Live Stream
• Recaps:
  • Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
  • Prelims: Day 2 | Day 3

The Drury men, once the dominant team in NCAA D2 swimming but now on a decade drought since their last title, enter the final day of competition on Saturday with a 29-point lead over Tampa at the national championship meet.

They punctuated a Thursday evening performance that saw them go +21 on the day versus the Spartans with an NCAA 400 medley relay record.

Sophomore Ivan Adamchuk, senior David Mourao, junior Alejandro Villarejo, and junior Lucas Mineur combined for a 3:06.75. That cleared the old NCAA Record of 3:07.11 done by McKendree at last year’s D2 National Championship meet.

McKendree finished 2nd this year with mostly the same relay in 3:07.01, also under their old record.

Splits Comparison:

The record-breaking effort by Drury was a true team effort, with each of the first three legs bettering their counterparts’ splits on the 2024 McKendree relay.

As for McKendree, they swapped in freshman Nojus Bertulis on the breaststroke leg for Felipe Pinheiro, who transferred to Penn State for this season. Otherwise they returned senior Patryk Rozenek, senior Jackson Lustig, who is one of the stars of the meet, and junior Tyson Upton.

The winning Drury relay included a Belarusian, a Brazilian, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman, while McKendree’s relay had a Pole on the leadoff leg, a Lithuanian (who went to HS in the US) and an American in the middle, and an Australian anchor.

This was Drury’s 9th NCAA Division II title in the men’s 400 medley relay all-time, with the most recent win before this year coming in 2021.