CHICAGO, IL – For the second-straight season, University of Rochester senior Max McClung earned a spot in the 200-yard backstroke 'A' final, helping the University of Rochester men's swimming & diving team wrap up the 2026 University Athletic Association (UAA) Swimming & Diving Championships on Saturday evening inside the Ratner Athletics Center.
 
McClung notched NCAA B-cut times in both the 200 backstroke prelims and finals, finishing sixths in both heats, Rochester's highest finish of the entire weekend. McClung clocked in at 1:48.17 in the prelims on Saturday morning, and then shaved 0.16 seconds off his time in the finals to place sixth with a time of 1:48.01, just 0.05 seconds off his school-record time from a season ago.
 
McClung's mark currently ranks 19th in NCAA Division III, giving the senior a chance to potentially qualify for the 2026 NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships.
 
Sebastian Gans joined McClung in the evening's 200-backstroke final, having qualified for the 'C' final with a 20th-place result in the prelims. Gans touched the wall in 1:54.83 in the prelims, and then finished 20th again with a 1:53.01 time in the final.
 
Max Gjevre also qualified for the evening's finals in the 200-yard breaststroke, placing 24th in both the morning prelims and evening finals. Gjevre clocked in at 2:09.79 in the prelims, and improved to a time of 2:09.50 in the final, No. 7 on URochester's top-10 performances list.
 
First-years Matthew Spence and Tyler Yueng also scored for the Yellowjackets in the 1,650-yard freestyle, finishing 16th and 17th, respectively. Spence finished with a time of 16:29.93, while Yeung came in just behind Spence with a time of 16:31.59.
 
Connor Kann was Rochester's top swimmer in the 100-yard freestyle prelims, placing 31st with a time of 47.01 seconds, while Patrick Li led the 'Jackets in the 200-yard butterfly prelims with a 30th-place time of 1:58.48.
 
Rochester's 400-yard freestyle 'A' and 'B' relays wrapped up the evening and the championships, with the 'Jackets' 'A' relay of Kann, Ben Friedberg, McClung and Nate Attwell scoring a seventh-place finish with a time of 3:06.20, the third-fastest 400 freestyle relay in program history.
 
In the 'B' heat, Gans, Jayden Proctor, Venden Berge and Brandon Weaver combined for a time of 3:11.96, good for 15th.
 
Overall, the Yellowjackets finished seventh in the eight-team field with 520 points. Emory won the UAA title for the 27th-consecutive season, besting second-place NYU with 1753.5 points, while the Violets scored 1,626. Host UChicago rounded out the top-three finishers with 1,399 points.