Vassar Finishes Seventh At Liberty League Championship

400-yrd freestyle places seventh on Saturday

Ithaca, NY – The Vassar College Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving team finished the 2026 Liberty League Championship in seventh-place on Saturday with a score of 522 points. The 400-yard freestyle relay team led the way on the final day with a seventh-place finish.

Ithaca won the team championship with 1,722 points with the rest of the field ranking: RIT (1,625.5), RPI (1,085), Clarkson (1,028.5), Union (686.5), Skidmore (630.5), Vassar (522), St. Lawrence (325), Hobart (272) and Bard (162).

For The Brewers

First Year Jack Powers (Amherst, NY) posted the team's best individual on Saturday, scoring an 11^th-place finish in the 1,650-freestyle with a time of 16:50.23.
Senior Robin Auwaerter (Syracuse, NY) finished the 1,650-yard freestyle in a time of 18:04.54, good for the 20^th position.
Sophomore Laszlo Lawless (Monterrey, CA) rounded out a trio of Brewers to score in the meet's longest event with a 22^nd-place finish in a time of 18:53.39.
Vassar also saw three swimmers swim in the final session in the 200-yard backstroke, led by a 16^th-place swim from John Gao (Ann Arbor, MI) who finished in a time of 1:59.77.
Logan Seiss (Downingtown, PA) followed in 19^th-place with a time of 2:01.36.
Senior James Hatch (Los Altos, CA) came home in the 21^st position for Vassar, showing a time of 2:04.69.
In the 200-yard breaststroke, First Year Kieran Lakhan (Kensington, MD) closed out a strong rookie campaign with a 16^th-place finish for the Brewers in a time of 2:12.60.
Senior Ricky Kurosawa (Las Vegas, NV) and Sebastian Chang-Leung (Silver Spring, MD) competed in the 'C' final of the breaststroke event and finished 18^th and 22^nd in times of 2:16.50 and 2:20.37, respectively.
Senior Sam Deluca (Mifflinburg, PA) and Eli House (Oneonta, NY) competed in the 'C' final of the 100-yard freestyle on Saturday and swam times of 48.55 and 49.02 seconds, good for the 20^th and 22^nd positions.
Vassar closed the championship with a seventh-place swim in the 400-yard freestyle relay with the unit of Deluca, Seiss, Gao and House touching out in a time of 3:16.08.
The Brewers' second entry in the relay placed 22^nd with the team of Vuk Usina (Tallahassee, FL), Lakhan, Jacob Collette (Milford, CT) and Daniel Wang (Carlisle, MA) posting a time of 3:20.51.