Regis Concludes Competition at 2023 GNAC Swim & Dive Championships

WELLESLEY, Mass. – The Regis College swimming and diving team collected several more podium finishes as competition concluded Sunday evening at the 2023 Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Swimming and Diving Championships at the Boston Sports Institute.

For the second straight night, Olivia Luhnau (Denver, Colo.) came close to a GNAC title, finishing second in the 50 breaststroke by just 6/100ths of a second with a collegiate-best time of 33.01 seconds. She also swam the second leg of the 400 medley relay, teaming with Megan Miller (Quincy, Mass.), Vera Rivard (Springfield, N.H.), and Cecelia Adelfio (Gloucester, Mass.) for a fourth place finish in an overall time of 4:40.42.

Samuel Madriz (Union, N.J.) also picked up a second place finish in the 200 butterfly with a finals time of 2:09.96 after compiling a collegiate-best time of 2:08.54 in the morning preliminaries. Michael Curtis (Burlington, Mass.) earned All-GNAC honors with a third place finish in the 1650 freestyle in 22:54.15.

On the women's side, Adelfio finished fifth in the 1650 freestyle with a time of 21:26.84, while Rivard touched the wall fourth in the 200 butterfly in 2:45.40. Miller placed fourth in the 100 backstroke with a time of 1:04.83, followed by teammate Olivia Roux (Sanford, Maine) in fifth place with a time of 1:06.48.

Aryaman Nagaraj (Watertown, Mass.) finished in seventh place in the 100 freestyle with a time of 52.80 seconds. In the team competitions, the Pride men ended up in third place with 93.5 points, while the Regis women remained in sixth place with a total of 368 points. Norwich University swept the conference team titles.

Regis College will head to Standish, Maine, to face Saint Joseph's College and Elms College Saturday, Feb. 11, starting at 12 p.m. Cashman Murphy (Westwood, Mass.) is also scheduled to compete at the 2023 NCAA Division III Northeast/North Diving Regional Feb. 24-25 at a site to be determined.