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Accolades and Extracollegiate Performances:
- Amassed third-best total of 1,023.5 points in the June 2026 ST TXLA Longhorns Aquatics Elite Invite, winning the 50 backstroke and finishing second in the 100 back
- Posted a personal record in the 100 back (54:07-LCM) at the 2026 USA Swimming National Championships
- Became Loyola’s second swimmer to participate at the NCAA Championships in 2026, competing in the 100 and 200 backstroke events
- Set a Loyola and Patriot League record with a time of 1:39.62 in the 200 back to finish 20th in the preliminaries – he has re-set the school record five times since 2024-25
- Earned 2025-26 All Patriot League First Team and Academic Team honors
- Joined his brother Patrick and one of two Greyhound three-time league honorees
- Set a Mangione Aquatic Center record in the 200 backstroke and was a part of two record-setting relays in the 200 and 400 medley relays (2052 H2ounds Invitational)
- Won three Patriot League Swimmer of the Week awards, bringing his career total to six
- Set a PR in the 2025 US Swimming National Championships, reaching the finals in the 50 backstroke with a qualifying time of 25.02
- Competed at the 2025 Toyota National Championships; reached an 'A' final, swimming the 50-meter backstroke in 25.02 to finish eighth and register the No. 10 time in the United States and the No. 37 mark in the world
- Named Loyola’s Male Sophomore of the Year at the 2024-25 Iggy’s
- Earned 2024-25 All-Patriot League Second Team and Academic All-Patriot League honors, along with CSC Academic All-District recognition
- A two-time Patriot League Swimmer of the Week (Oct. 22, 2024, Jan. 21, 2025)
- Captured bronze (47.05) in the 100-yard backstroke at the 2024 Toyota U.S. Open Championships in Greensboro, N.C.; also part of men’s 400 medley relay winning quartet
- Brought home three gold medals in the 2024 FISU America Games in Cali, Columbia, winning the 50, 100 and 200-meter backstroke events; also won gold in the mixed 400-meter medley relay
- Won his heat and finished tied for 20th overall in the 100-meter backstroke at the 2024 United States Olympic Trials
- Named Loyola’s Male Freshman of the Year at the 2023-24 Iggy’s
2025-26 (Junior): Won ten times in dual meet competition, including doubling vs. Lafayette (50, 100 back) Navy (100, 200 back), West Virginia (100, 200 back) and Bucknell (100, 200 back) … Won both backstroke events, the 50 freestyle and amassed seven gold medals at the Thomas Murphy Invitational…Swam a PR in the 50 free (20.28)… He tied teammate Luke Dwyer with 108 points for the victorious Greyhounds… Brought home three silvers in individual events (100 fly, 100 and 200 back) from the Patriot League Championships, but topped that with three golds in both backstroke events and the 100 freestyle at the ECAC Open Championships… Amassed 84 points (4 silvers, 3 relay bronzes), seventh-best among all swimmers at Patriot League Championships… Set PR’s in the 50 freestyle (19.66) and 50 backstroke (20.78) in Annapolis… Added a relay silver at ECAC Meet and led all competitors with 60 points… Reached new personal highs in 100 free (42.93) and 100 back (44.69, NCAA qualifying time) at the Bucknell site… Paced Loyola to a second-place finish of 19 teams, besting Penn and Columbia.
2024-25 (Sophomore): Brought home gold as part of the 200 medley relay quartet at the ECAC Open Championships…A two-time finalist at the Patriot League Championships, earning silver in the 200 backstroke (1:42.17, PR) and bronze in the 100 back (46.29, PR, prelims)… Both were NCAA “B” cut times… Captured the 200 backstroke in meets vs. Army West Point, Bucknell and Lafayette… Also won gold in the 100 backstroke vs. the dual meets vs. Bucknell and Lafayette… Triumphed in both backstroke events at both the H2ounds Invitational and the Thomas Murphy Invitational
2023-24 (Freshman): Won the 100 backstroke at the ECAC Championships and set an ECAC Championships record mark of 47.09 in the preliminaries… Finished second in the 100 backstroke and third in the 200 backstroke at the Patriot League Championships… Doubled with triumphs in the both backstroke events in dual meets vs. Army West Point, Bucknell, William & Mary, Lafayette and Lehigh (collegiate debut) and at the H2ounds Invitational… Won the 100 freestyle and 200 IM in the tri-meet vs. American and Colgate
Before Loyola: Graduated from St. Mary’s High School where he was a four-year letterwinner in swimming and team captain as a senior… Member of Team USA at the 2023 World University Games (Chengdu 2021)… Four-time NISCA High School All-American… Two-time
Washington Post All-Met First Team and four-time USA Swimming Scholastic All-American… Named the
Annapolis Capital-Gazette Swimmer of the Year twice and was the St. Mary’s High School Athlete of the Year and MIAA ‘B’ Conference Swimmer of the Year… Named the National Catholic Championship Swimmer of the Meet in a competition held at Loyola’s Fitness and Aquatic Center, breaking a pool record set by Michael Phelps in the Process… Over the course of his pre-Loyola career, won 21 Maryland LSC State titles and was a Maryland LSC Swimmer of the Year… Held 10 Maryland LSC State records and was a two-time Olympic Trials Qualifier (2020 and 2024)
Personal: Son of Teri and John Hayburn… Older siblings Anne, Jimmy and Patrick all swam for Loyola… Also has a younger brother, Luke… Valedictorian of his high school class and the 2023 St. Mary’s Class President… Archdiocese of Baltimore Captain of the Captains… Church Master of Ceremonies, altar server, sacristan, lector and usher… Named to the Principal’s Honor Roll all 16 quarters in high school… Member of multiple National Honor societies… Mother was a collegiate swimmer at Villanova who later coached at Villanova and Maryland… Father was a Naval officer who was selected to
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