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Disclaimer: Swim of the Week is not meant to be a conclusive selection of the best overall swim of the week, but rather one Featured Swim to be explored in deeper detail. The Swim of the Week is an opportunity to take a closer look at the context of one of the many fast swims this week, perhaps a swim that slipped through the cracks as others grabbed the headlines, or a race we didn’t get to examine as closely in the flood of weekly meets.
Florida Atlantic senior Daniel Laureyssens has had a phenomenal first few days of the 2026 Atlantic Sun Conference Championships, earning a berth at Men’s NCAAs in two events.
The Belgian native has never competed at the Men’s NCAA Championships throughout his college career, but he will next month after winning back-to-back conference titles in the men’s 50 and 200 free while getting under the qualifying standard.
On Wednesday night in the 50 free, Laureyssens clocked 19.43 to win the conference title and match the NCAA qualifying time right on the number to book his ticket to the national meet in March. He also broke his own FAU record of 19.57, set at the Patriot Invitational in November.
On Thursday, he had an arguably even more impressive performance in the final of the 200 free, dominating the field by more than three seconds in a time of 1:32.68 to shatter his lifetime best and FAU record of 1:33.95 set in November while going well under the NCAA qualifying time of 1:33.93.
Split Comparison
| Laureyseens, 2025 Patriot Invite | Laureyseens, 2026 ASUN Champs |
| 21.39 | 21.21 |
| 45.28 (23.89) | 44.91 (23.70) |
| 1:09.69 (24.41) | 1:08.72 (23.81) |
| 1:33.95 (24.26) | 1:32.42 (23.70) |
He also obliterated the ASUN conference championship record of 1:34.01, set by SMU’s Christopher Mykkanen in 2024.
Not factoring in results from any of the conference championship meets this week, Princeton’s Mitchell Schott (1:32.44) is the only Division I mid-major swimmer who has been faster than Laureyssens’ 200 free swim in the NCAA this season.
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