William & Mary Women Take Back CAA Crown, UNCW Men 5-Peat

Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) – Men and Women

• Dates: Wednesday, February 25–Saturday, February 28
• Location: Hampton Aquaplex, Hampton, VA
• Defending Champions: UNC-Wilmington women (3x); UNC-Wilmington men (4x)
• Results (Day 4)
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• Teams: Campbell (women), Drexel, Monmouth, Northeastern (women), Stony Brook (women), Towson, UNC-Wilmington, William & Mary

The dust has settled at the Hampton Aquaplex after a fiery Coastal Athletic Association Championship meet. The women’s trophy will remain in the 757, as William & Mary claimed its first conference title since 2022. The University of North Carolina Women had their three-year win streak snapped, but their male teammates extended its win streak to five years.

See the final scores below:

The meet saw two individual triple winners in UNCW’s Cameron Snowden and Drexel ace Theo Andreopoulos.

Andreopoulos scored his second NCAA cut of the meet with a 1:42.00 200 back victory. He later came back to the pool and helped Drexel, who has been on fire with relays, win another won in the 4×100 free. Joining him were Matas Cinga, Petar Pavalic, and Sebastian Smith for a cumulative time of 2:52.00.

Snowden, also already an NCAA qualifier, topped the women’s 100 free field. She registered a 48.88 to take the trophy, slightly off the 48.80 she went in prelims.

For the first time all meet, one individual event saw two NCAA qualifiers: the men’s 200 breast. Jed Garner, a Towson junior, completed the breaststroke sweep in NCAA cut fashion for the Tigers. His final time was 1:52.45, which erased Brian Benzig’s name from the conference record book. Coming in behind Garner was UNCW junior William Carrico in 1:53.14. Carrico went three for three in individual NCAA qualifications this weekend, setting himself up for a busy March.

Another conference record downed on the final night was the women’s 400 free relay, courtesy of William & Mary Tribe foursome Flynn Truskett, Ellie Hunt, Haley Lehman, and Caroline Burgeson. Burgeson had a brilliant anchor leg, splitting 48.05 to give her team a final time of 3:17.39.

Other Day 4 Winners

• Thursday’s 500 free winners were also Saturday’s mile winners. Towson junior Christian Davidson (15:08.00) and Drexel sophomore Brittany Corbett (15:39.96) reign king and queen of CAA distance this year.
• Mary Nordmann secured Northeastern’s lone individual swimming title with a 2:00.29 200 fly outing. UNCW sophomore Joseph Busic was Nordmann’s male counterpart, taking the 200 fly in NCAA cut fashion with 1:43.52.
• Sebastian Smith became a double event winner, bringing the 100 free title back to Drexel with a 42.85.
• Winning her first event of the meet and defending her 2025 title, William & Mary’s Sophia Heilen topped the 200 breaststroke field with a 2:11.97. Her teammate Julie Addison captured the 200 back dub for a sweep of the discipline, clocking a 1:56.35.