The 2025 MAAC Swimming and Diving Championships ended the same way they started on Wednesday, with a thrilling win and meet and school record in the Men's 400-yard Freestyle Relay on Saturday. The Iona quartet of Keran Egan (44.59), Nate Wales (44.11), Liam Pyatt (45.28) and Michael Faughnan posted a 2:56.98 time for the gold.
 
The win gave Faughnan, seven gold medals, to go along with four individual meet records (500-Free, 200-Free, 100-Back and 200-Back) and another four gold as a relay swimmer.
 
"Michael had perfect meet," commented Coach Nick Cavataro, "but I know he gives a lot of credit to his teammates".
 
In the women's 400-Free Relay, Megan Josephs (52.20), Ashley Benkert (52.11), Kare Kennedy (52.60) and Julia Moser (52.44) posted a 3:29.35 time for sixth place.
 
The team scores found the Iona men in fourth with 512.5-points with Niagara at 653.5, followed by Marist 621.5 and Fairfield at 615.5. The women's team totals had Niagara at 766; Fairfield, 597; Marist, 511; Sacred Heart, 406; Mount Saint Mary's, 334 and Iona at 295. 
 
In individual action, the 200-Backstroke on the women's side had freshmen Raegan O'Brien take bronze with a career best effort of 2:01.84.  Sophomore Julia Hulse placed sixteenth at 2:08.21. Faughnan's nearly five second victory margin in the 200-Back breaking his own meet mark with a new time of 1:41.64.
 
The women's 100-Free saw Josephs place eighth at 51.99. The men's race had Egan take bronze at 44.42, with Wales eighth at 45.42 and Pyatt fifteenth at 46.03.
 
Graduate student Julia Moser, in her last individual MAAC race lowered he own school record to 2:17.71 for Bronze in the 200-yard Breaststroke with Brennyn Veit and Hailey Baker eleventh and thirteenth with respective times of 2:21.60 and 2:22.60. The men's race nearly set a back-to-back records as Junior Mikel Palaj dropped over two seconds to take tenth at 2:00.40, just .2 away from the oldest Iona swim record.
 
Sophomore Emma Todd placed fourteenth on the 1-Meter Springboard at 179.10 points.
 
The 200-yard Butterfly had Benkert post a season best effort at 2:06.38 for tenth place. In the men's event Noah Giunta and Brian Baldwin placed third and fourth respectively at 1:49.51 and 1:49.65, with Andrew Diano at 1:52.57 and Harry Summers at 1:52.82 and eleventh and thirteenth, respectively.