Results
Saturday Recap
PISCATAWAY, NJ – One day after winning his third career gold medal at the Metropolitan Championships,
Rowan Hayes (Floral Park, NY) of the Maritime College men's swimming & diving team picked up his fourth. He added the 200 yard breaststroke title to his 100-yard crown after notching a school-record time of 2:03.57 in the "A" final on Sunday night at Rutgers University's Werblin Recreation Center. With the victory, Hayes regained the 200 breaststroke crown after finishing second in 2025.
It was his third medal of the meet. Hayes took silver in the 200 yard individual medley on Friday before sweeping the two breaststroke events. He's now a two-time Metropolitan champion in both the 100 and 200 breaststroke, but this is the first time he's won both in the same year. In 2024, he became the Privateers' first-ever gold medalist with his victory in the 200 breaststroke, and he's the back-to-back 100-yard champion.
Hayes was the No. 1 qualifier after setting a school record of 2:07.01 during the morning preliminaries. He shaved nearly four seconds off that time in the final to edge Baruch's Rami Faynergsh (2:03.91) for the title.
Maritime had a swimmer make the "A" final in four of the five individual events held on Sunday.
Matt Klimek (Malverne, NY) claimed the bronze medal in the 1650 yard freestyle, posting a time of 18:14.11.
Alex Osypenko (Oyster Bay, NY) was sixth in the 200 yard butterfly (2:09.14), and
Victor Pineda (Bronx, NY) took seventh in the 200 yard backstroke (2:19.71). The Privateers added a fourth-place showing in the meet-ending 400 yard freestyle relay, with the team of Hayes, Klimek,
Liam MacManus (Islip, NY) and Osypenko recording a 3:18.30 clocking.
A pair of Maritime women reached the "B" final in their event.
Oceana Elefante (Sayville, NY) ended up 12
th overall in the 100 yard freestyle (58.69), while
Kristen Carroll (New York, NY) was 14
th in the 200 breaststroke (3:14.14). They later joined with
Rebecca Kmiotek (Lindenhurst, NY) and
Kirsten Argueta (Englewood, NJ) to place eighth in the 400 freestyle relay (4:25.93).
The Privateer men finished third in the team standings with 850 points. It was Maritime's highest-ever team placement at the Metropolitan Championships. The women's squad, meanwhile, tallied 305 points to rank ninth as a team.
