GREENSBORO, N.C. -
Sean Lyman (Sr. - Pennsburg, Pa.) and
Colin Twiss (Sr. - Mahwah, N.J.) closed out a pair of exceptional collegiate swimming careers with respective All-America finishes while the men's 400-yard freestyle relay team earned an All-America Honorable Mention as Coast Guard competed at the final day of the 2025 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships.
The Bears finished tenth overall at this year's championship meet with a final score of 125 points, the highest team placement in Coast Guard swimming & diving history. Denison University took the team title with 463.5 points for the sixth national title in Big Red program history and their first time at the top of the standings since 2019, also thwarting a four-peat by runners-up Emory College in the process. Finishing just in front of Coast Guard was fellow NEWMAC representatives MIT, who took ninth place with 131 points.
Team captain Lyman started the day for the Bears by earning his third All-America nod of the meet with his eighth-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle, swimming 15:32.72. Lyman's 1,000-yard split of 9:18.05 was a school record while he becomes just the third swimmer in Coast Guard history to earn All-American in three individual events at the same meet. The first was
Bobby Brown '08 in 2005, who was followed by
Kim Shadwick '11 at the 2011 championship.
Fellow senior Twiss also found himself rewriting the record books throughout the day. Twiss broke the school record in the 100-yard freestyle in this morning's trials with his 43.96, and then broke it again in the finals after swimming 43.88 for seventh place and earning his second individual All-America nod this week.
Twiss' performance in the event-closing 400-yard freestyle relay was head-turning as well. Anchoring for
Noah Reice (So. - Wilmington, Del.),
Kacper Buniowski (Fr. - Bridgewater, N.J.), and
Zachary McGowen (Fr. - Springfield, Va.), the senior became one of a handful of swimmers in Division III history to break the 43-second mark during his leg of the race. The team finished 14th and earned All-America Honorable Mention with a time of 3:00.17.
FULL MEET RESULTS
