2026 Atlantic-10 Swimming & Diving Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, February 18–Saturday, February 21
- Location: Hampton Aquaplex, Hampton, VA
- Defending Champions: George Washington women (4x); George Washington men (5x)
- Teams: Davidson, Duquesne (women), Fordham, George Mason, George Washington, La Salle, Rhode Island (women), Richmond (women), St. Louis, St. Bonaventure
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- Recaps: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
Final Team Standings:
Women:
- Richmond- 600
- George Washington- 572.5
- Duquesne- 516.5
- La Salle- 477
- Fordham- 371
- St. Bonaventure- 358
- Rhode Island- 234
- George Mason- 211
- Davidson- 169
- Saint Louis- 142
Men:
- George Washington- 784.83
- George Mason- 585.66
- St. Bonaventure- 506.5
- La Salle- 437
- Davidson- 420
- Saint Louis- 325
- Fordham- 286
The Richmond women secured the 2026 A10 Championship title, while the George Washington men claimed the men’s crown. This win for Richmond marks their 17th in program history, and first since the 2020-2021 season. The Revolutionary men have now won nine of the last 10, and this win marks their 6th consecutive A10 men’s championship.
The final night of the championships opened with George Washington’s Ava Topolewski leading a 1-2 sweep for George Washington in 16:23.28. In a ‘passing of the torch’ moment, teammate, freshman Tayla Erdogan finished just behind in 16:25.53.
In the men’s 1650 free, Davidson freshman Henry Shoemaker battled with George Washington’s Daniel Choi from start to finish. Ultimately, it would be Shoemaker who used a major last 50 (24.78) to seal the deal and take the 1650 free win in 15:09.61, just under a half second ahead of Choi in 15:10.07.
Duquesne sophomore Sierra Snow took the women’s 200 backstroke win in a half-second personal best of 1:55.15, besting her former best time of 1:55.79 from the WVU Invitational in November. She touched just half a second ahead of St. Bonaventure’s Anna Forjan in 1:55.67.
George Washington’s Shae Stratton led a very tightly contested top three in 1:43.53. 13 hundredths behind Stratton was George Mason’s Ian Rodgers in 1:43.66, and rounding out the podium was La Salle’s Taarik Gusic in 1:43.76.
The following race was a similar story, as Richmond’s Presley Baber claimed the 100 free title in 49.84, despite a very close championship final that saw the top six all separated by less than four tenths of a second. The Spiders used this event as a major points grab, as four of the eight championship finalists represented Richmond.
La Salle’s Carter Perkins clinched the men’s title in Conference and meet record-breaking fashion, taking three tenths off of the 2024 mark from George Washington’s Toni Dragoja of 42.67 with his winning effort of 42.37. Perkins finished more than four tenths faster than the event’s championship final.
Gabriela Herbreder earned a victory out of lane 1 for La Salle in the women’s 200 breast. Herbreder shaved nearly four tenths off of her lifetime best of 2:13.38 from these championships to win here in 2:12.91. That time was three and a half seconds better than her prelims swim in 2:16.49.
Fordham’s Hayley Clark led the way in the women’s 200 butterfly, stopping the clock in 1:58.19, ahead of a pair of Duquesne swimmers in Ashley Freel (1:59.49) and Claudia Rzeznik (2:00.48), who made up the rest of the podium.
Felix Jedbratt put down another eye-popping swim for La Salle, dominating the field in 1:41.72, marking the first-ever A10 performance under 2:00, having set the meet record in prelims at 1:42.60, and previously held the conference record of 1:42.22 from November. Nobody else in the championship final was under the 1:44 barrier.
St. Bonaventure earned a win on the day with Dhavgely Mendoza ending as the top women’s 1-meter performer in 303.10.
In the final women’s race of the meet, Richmond stamped their ticket to the title with Baber (50.15), Julia Krichev (50.04), Caitlyn Hughes (50.04), and Lena Amare (49.66) mounted a comeback, after not leading until the 350 mark, to down George Washington (3:20.17) by just three tenths in 3:19.87.
On the men’s side, George Washington’s Daniel Nagy (43.77), Matija Radjenovic (44.04), Ganesh Sivaramakrishnan (42.86), and AJ Wood (43.05) combined to take a quarter of a second win over George Mason in a meet closing 2:53.72.
