HAMPTON, Va. – The TCNJ men's swimming team racked up three more individual titles and another school record on the final day of the NJAC Championship on Sunday, ending the four-day meet with a coronation as runaway repeat champions.
 
Ryan Higgins (200 back), Ryan VanDeVeen (200 breast), and Steven Bendoraitis (1650 free) all grabbed individual gold medals with top-10 national times for the Lions, who finished with 1714 team points to handily outdistance Merchant Marine (1190) and Salisbury (1181.5). 

Gavin Formon, Shawn Kushner, Andrew Walter, and Ethan Weiss all produced runner-up performances on Sunday. 
 
The Lions accrued a total of 12 titles (nine individual, three relay) for the weekend, leaving no doubt as to their continued conference supremacy.
 
TOP PERFORMANCES
 
1650 FREE

• Bendoraitis and Gavin Formon engaged in an epic dual for the gold medal in the mile, with Bendoraitis ultimately edging his teammate by 1.53 seconds after touching the wall in 15:34.83. Bendoraitis and Formon (15:36.36) each posted B-cuts and now rank 6^th and 7^th in the nation, respectively

200 BACK

• Higgins easily made it a personal 3-peat in the 200 back, finishing nearly four seconds clear of teammate Andrew Walter in second with a time of 1:46.33; Higgins' mark of 1:45.82 from prelims is tied for 4^th in the nation
• Walter garnered a silver medal in the event for the second time in his career
• Andrew Kidchob placed fifth in 1:51.17

100 FREE

• M.J. Hoban placed third with a personal-best 44.70, a B-cut that ranks 22^nd in Division III
• Bradley Frank finished sixth with a time of 46.30 seconds

200 BREAST

• The Lions notched another 1-2 finish in the 200 breast, where VanDeVeen shaved more than three seconds off his preliminary time and finished with the 5^th-best time in the nation (1:57.97) and a program record to capture his third consecutive conference crown
• Shawn Kushner was runner-up to VanDeVeen, logging one of the fastest times in school history in his own right (2:00.59)

200 FLY

• Pablo Salazar (1:49.73) and Jonah Stein (1:51.43) placed third and fourth, respectively, in the 200 fly
• Joe McChesney finished eighth (1:53.84)

ON THE BOARDS

• Weiss made a run at pulling off the diving double, ultimately settling for silver in the 3-meter dive with a score of 459.50, behind Merchant Marine's Thomas Cable
• Michael Wu placed third (424.35) and Kai Zola was sixth (265.20)