This Week in PAC Men's Swimming & Diving

January 19-25

PAC Men's Swimming and Diving Athletes of the Week for January 26th
PAC Men's Swimming and Diving Athletes of the Week for January 26th

Men's Swimming and Diving | 1/26/2026 4:00:00 PM

Week 10 PAC Honors (for events between January 19-25)
The weekly award winners have been recognized for their performances during Week 10 of the 2025-26 season.

PAC Men's Swimmer/Diver of the Week
Jacob Dzurica • Saint Vincent • Senior • Greensburg, Pa./Hempfield
At the Western Pa. Invite, Dzurica won the 50 (20.50) and 100 (44.90) freestyle and earned a second-place touch in the 100 backstroke (51.16) ... Only Dzurica has posted faster times this season in the PAC in the 50 and 100 free and his time in the 100 back would rank third (Dzurica also has the fastest time in that event) ... He also swam legs on the Bearcats' third place 200-free relay team and fourth place 200-medley relay team as well.

PAC Men's Swimming & Diving Honor Roll
Chatham junior Caleb Trainum (Canonsburg, Pa./Canon-McMillan); Grove City senior Caleb Einolf (Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown); Hiram senior Owen Pastorius (Pittsburgh, Pa./North Hills); W&J sophomore Zach Lloyd (Dillsburg, Pa./Homeschooled); Westminster sophomore Jack Katigbak (North Canton, Ohio/Lake Center Christian)
 
PAC Men's Newcomer of the Week
George Witte • Grove City • Freshman • Columbia, S.C./Covenant Classical Christian
Witte won the 200 backstroke (1:56.05) and the 200 free (1:43.02) at the Carnegie Mellon Western Pennsylvania Invitational ... His 200 back time is the fastest in the PAC this season and the only 200 free mark faster this winter was posted by Witte back in December ... He also helped Grove City to a meet-opening win in the 200 free relay (1:23.97) ... Grove City also took second in the 400 free relay (3:05.55) with Witte on the third leg. 

PAC Newcomer Honor Roll
Bethany freshman Corbin Henry (Martinsburg, W.Va./Martinsburg); Saint Vincent freshman William Schauss (Seabrook, Texas/Homeschooled); Westminster freshman Ethan Bishop (Meadow, Utah/Millard)
 
PAC Records & Milestones
Chatham's Caleb Trainum had two top-11 individual finishes at the Western Pa. Invite, highlighted by his ninth place in the 400 IM (4:56.24) ... Grove City's Caleb Einolf won the 100 breaststroke at the Western Pennsylvania Invitational with a pool-record time of 54.69 seconds and also took second in the 50 free (20.60) and was the runner-up in the 100 fly (50.01) ... Hiram's Owen Pastorius broke Hiram's pool record in the 1,500-meter freestyle (17:17.43) this past Friday night, as his time was nearly a full 13 seconds better than the next-best mark in the history of Alumni Memorial Pool (Zach Wegman in 2010, 17:30.39) ... Saint Vincent's William Schauss earned an eighth-place result in the 200 IM, while finishing third in the 200 fly and fourth in the 200 free at the Western PA Invite. ... Zach Lloyd led W&J in a dual meet with Wooster, taking the sole first-place finish for the men's team in the 1-meter dive, scoring 462.00 points. ... Jack Katigbak earned a victory in the 200 back (2:03.92) Saturday during Westminster's dual meet against visiting Mount Union