The New York University women's swimming and diving team closed out the second day of competition at the 2026 University Athletic Association (UAA) Championships in first place.
The meet is being held February 11-14, at the Myers-McLoraine Pool on the campus of the University of Chicago.
NYU finished Thursday's evening session leading the field with 708.5 points, winning four of the five races. Emory sits in second place with 678.5 points.
"The team came out ready to race this morning and it really set us up for the finals tonight," said Swimming Head Coach
Trevor Miele. "That's not an easy thing to do, so I'm really proud of them."
The Violets opened the final Thursday session with the team's second relay win of the meet, taking first in the 200 freestyle relay. NYU's "A" team (Lian Engle Jeong,
Maeve O'Donnell,
Llew Ladomirak,
Kaley McIntyre) cracked a new UAA, NYU, and Myers-McLoraine Pool record with a 1:30.66 time.
Ladomirak (4:54.08) made it consecutive wins in the next race, picking up her first individual UAA Championship in the 500 freestyle final.
Aanya Wala (4:54.73) took second.
Ella Romberg (2:04.25) scored a third-place finish in the 200 individual medley (IM) with teammate
Babette Bradley (2:04.25) just behind in fourth.
McIntyre picked up her first sprint title of the meet, winning the 50 freestyle championship with a 22.29 time. Her win set a new UAA and pool record. O'Donnell (23.24) and Jeong Engle (23.26) rounded out the top three.
McIntyre's anchor swim in the 400 medley relay was the difference as she combined with O'Donnell,
Sammy Wong and
Nicole Ranile to take first in 3:41.87. Her 47.32 freestyle leg was over three seconds faster than the field.
"Kaley's anchor legs on both relays tonight were unbelievably impressive. She is truly a cheat code," said Miele.
Earlier in the afternoon, the women competed in their first diving event of the weekend - the one-meter. NYU's trio topped the consolation final after narrowly missing the championship round, as
Maya Williams (432.30),
Meera Kasturi (429.80) and
Isabella Reyes (423.15) placed 9-10-11 overall.
"Not quite the results we wanted today, but we were pretty good overall," said Diving Head Coach
Todd Kolean. "Missing just one dive is enough miss out on the final at this level of competition. We're looking forward to the three-meter program."
Competition rolls into the back half of the meet on Friday with the 100 butterfly, 400 IM, 200 freestyle, 100 breaststroke, 100 backstroke, and 200 medley relay.
