The University of Rochester men's swimming & diving team opened its 2026-27 season with a dual meet against Canisius University on Saturday at the Speegle-Wilbraham Aquatics Center, but fell to the Golden Griffins, 184-116.
 
The Yellowjackets won six events and tallied 16 top-three finishes in the dual meet, led by three double-winners: Sebastian Gans, Connor Kann and Patrick Li.
 
Li won a pair of individual events, the 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard IM, clocking in at 1:58.32 in the 200 butterfly and 2:00.57 in the 200 IM.
 
Matthew Spence came in two spots behind Li in the 200 IM, placing third with a time of 2:05.94, and also took second in the 1,000-yard freestyle, clocking in at 10:03.62.
 
Gans and Kann earned individual wins in the 200-yard backstroke and 50-yard freestyle, and then combined with Hamzah Rauther and Michael Scholz to top the 200-yard freestyle relay to wrap up the dual meet.
 
Kann touched the wall in 21.12 seconds to top the 50 freestyle, while Gans won the 200 backstroke with a time of 2:00.63. The pair then swam the first and third laps of Rochester's 200 freestyle relay and came in first with a time of 1:26.11, with Rauther and Scholz swimming the second and final laps.
 
Gans also added a second-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 53.75 seconds, and opened the meet swimming the leadoff leg of Rochester's 200 medley relay, combining with Rauther, Jayden Proctor and Kann for a time of 1:37.61, good for third place. While Kann added a third-place result in the 100-yard freestyle, touching the wall in 47.96 seconds.
 
Rochester's final event win of the day came in the 200-yard freestyle, where Nate Attwell topped the field with a time of 1:46.33. Attwell was also URochester's top finisher in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:56.25.
 
Max Wozinski led the Yellowjackets in both diving events, netting 205.05 points in the one-meter and 202.80 points in the three-meter to finish second in both events.
 
Elsewhere on the day, Rauther scored a pair of fourth-place finishes in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:00.79) and 200-yard breaststroke (2:19.38), while Liam Coffey and Proctor finished second and third, respectively, in the 100-yard butterfly with times of 52.64 and 53.29 seconds.
 
The Yellowjackets next host SUNY Cortland in another dual meet on Saturday, Oct. 24 at 1:00 p.m. inside the Speegle-Wilbraham Aquatics Center.