ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Lily Mead and the men's 200 freestyle relay team took the top spots on the podium Friday as the Loyola University Maryland swimming and diving team finished the third day at the Patriot League Championships.
 
Caleb Kelly, Jimmy Hayburn, Henry Mueller and Reid Hussey set a meet and school record of 1:19.05 to become the first Greyhounds' relay to win a Patriot League title since Loyola joined the conference in 2013-2014.
 
The wins helped the men hold steady in fourth place, while the women moved up a spot to sixth.
 
Kelly got the Greyhounds out quickly with a school-record 50 free split of 19.79, and Hayburn then had a split of 19.73. Mueller continued race by bringing Loyola through 150 yards in less than a minute (59.48), and Hussey flew to a 19.57 split to hold off Navy's anchor swimmer.
 
Mead cruised to a time of 53.71 in the 100-yard backstroke, a NCAA B-Cut performance, to hold off Boston University's Sezin Eligul who was second in 54.23. Mead got to the turn in 25.84 seconds before covering the back stretch of the race in 27.87 to become the second woman to win a Patriot League title for the Greyhounds.
 
She is the second Loyola woman to win an event at the Patriot League Championships, following Devin Cronin who won the 100 breaststroke at the 2020 meet.
 
Hussey led five Greyhounds who scored in the 100-yard butterfly. His school-record time of 48.05 edged Sung Lee's previous-best of 48.08 from the 2020 championship meet.
 
Jonathan Brooks was a spot back in fifth (48.53), while Jimmy Hayburn swam 48.89 to take eighth. Patrick Hayburn finished 10^th in 48.19, Harry Hearn placed 11^th in 48.76 and Lee was 14^th in 49.44.
 
Max Verheyen took a fourth-place finish, clocking 3:49.55, in the 400-yard individual medley; his time ranks as a NCAA B-Cut showing.
 
He came back minutes later to log another B-cut time, touching the wall in 53.48 to take second in the 100-yard breaststroke.
 
Henry Mueller set a school record in the 200-yard freestyle during the morning's preliminaries, racing to a time of 1:37.52 to best a mark set just two days ago by Verheyen. He came back in the night's final to take seventh place for the Greyhounds.
 
Patrick Hayburn came back in the 100 backstroke to set a school record of his own, winning heat two in 48.24 seconds, the second-fastest time during the evening session.
 
Conor Rutigliano took fifth in the event in 49.15, while Brooks was seventh in 49.26.
 
Mead was part of a 200-yard freestyle relay team, joining Fay Moser, Stella Meyerhoeffer and Charley Tulio, which finished fourth in 1:33.62, less than four-tenths of a second off the school record set last year.
 
Jack Still and Dan Faunce were scorers for the Greyhounds in the 1-meter diving event. Still moved up from 11^th in the preliminaries to 10^th overall in the final, posting 241.55 points; Faunce finished 14^th with 195.70.
 
Laura Latham scored with a 13^th-place finish in the women's 100-yard butterfly, touching the wall in 55.92.
 
The Greyhounds wrap up the Championships on Saturday, February 19, with the preliminary round at 10 a.m. and the finals at 6 p.m.