LEWISBURG, Pa. –
Caleb Kelly and
Lily Mead won individual titles on Thursday for the Loyola University Maryland men's and women's swimming and diving teams at the second day of the 2025 Patriot League Championships.
Kelly took the men's 50 freestyle crown, and Mead took the top spot in the women's 200 individual medley. Through two days of the competition, the Loyola men are in third place, and the women are fourth.
Mead's 200 individual medley title marked the sixth Patriot League individual crown she has won in her career. She picked up her second championship in that event after also winning it in 2023.
She swam 1:59.38 to best Army West Point's Catorina Gilmore's 1:59.81.
Kelly won his second career Patriot League title and first 50 freestyle crown, doing so in record-setting fashion.
He set a Loyola school and Bucknell poll record in the preliminaries with a time of 19.54 seconds, and he lowered that by almost two-tenths of a second in the finals. Kelly swam 19.35 seconds to record a Patriot League Championships meet, overall conference, pool and school record while also recording a NCAA 'B' Cut time.
Kelly, who also won the 2023 Patriot League title in the 100 freestyle, beat Army West Point's Johnny Crush by 26-hundredths of a second.
Four other Greyhounds scored in the men's 50 freestyle, and a trio of Loyola women scored in the 200 individual medley. Patrick Haburn was sixth in the 50 freestyle in 20.03, just in front of Hans Van Lierop's seventh-place finish (20.15).
Michael Gozdan took 12
th (20.25), and
Joe Hayburn was 15
th (20.40).
Riley Fried had a top-10 finish in the 200 individual medley, taking 10
th in 2:03.80, while
Laura Latham and
Kate O'Brien were 14
th and 15
th in 2:05.80 and 2:06.59, respectively.
Alex Plavoukos had another school record on Thursday for the Greyhounds, turning in a 500 freestyle time of 4:24.66 in the preliminaries. He then finished eighth in the final with a time of 4:29.15.
Hayden Bartz took 18
th (4:28.95), and
Kiernan Leary was 19
th (4:29.06).
Charley Tulio swam 23.02 for third in the women's 50 freestyle;
Haley Robinson was seventh (23.32),
Avery Stimmel took ninth (23.27) and
Fay Moser scored in 23
rd (24.04).
Henry Mueller went 1:47.89 in the 'A' final of the men's 200 individual medley for eighth-place, and
Brennan Coyle won the 'B' final in 1;47.52.
Luke Dwyer raced 1:49.09 for 14
th, and
Michael Venit placed 17
th in 1:48.38.
Zach Eisenmann took 19
th in 1:50.34, and
Owen Glaser gave the Greyhounds six scorers in the event with a 24
th-place finish in 1:54.65.
Thomas McCarthy scored 268.15 points in the men's 1-meter diving for 13
th place, and
Sam Hersick recorded 201.45 for 16
th.
Michaela Schultz and
Ellie Davis were 14
th and 24
th, respectively, in the 500 freestyle with times of 4:59.11 and 5:03.62 for the Loyola women.
The men's 400 medley relay of
Joe Hayburn, Gozdan,
Patrick Hayburn and Kelly went 3:09.06 for third place, and the women's quartet of Mead, Stimmel, Schultz and Tulio raced to fourth in 3:42.57.
The meet's third day will take place on Friday and the final day of competition will be Saturday.
