LANCASTER, Pa. – Senior Chase Hensen (Fredericksburg, Va./Colonial Forge) won gold medals in the both the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke events to highlight Washington College's performance at the 2025 Centennial Conference Swimming Championships, hosted by Franklin & Marshall held Thursday night through Sunday evening at McGinness Pool inside the Kunkel Aquatics Center. The Shoremen, who also emerged with a pair of bronze medals and broke four school records, finished fifth overall with 344 points.    

2025 Centennial Conference Championships

Medal Winners
- Hensen won the gold medal in the 100-yard breaststroke on Saturday night with a program record time of 55.38, breaking his own mark of 56.03 set in the preliminary round on Saturday morning. He won the program's first gold medal since Gage Mandrell '23 shared the gold in the 200 backstroke in 2023 and the team's first outright gold since Andrew Feeley '21 (200 backstroke) in 2020. The senior joins Eric Burcin as the only two from Washington to win gold at the Centennial Championships in both breaststroke events as Burcin did it in 2013. On Sunday night, Hensen won the 200 breaststroke for his second gold on the championships with a time of 2:03.50 and improved his second place best time at WC by .51. He is the first Shoreman to win gold in the 200 breaststroke since Lucas Morgan '16 in 2016 and the seventh time WC has won the event. The senior is the first swimmer from Washington to win two golds at one championship since Greg Lee '15 nabbed gold in the 100 and 200 butterfly in 2015. Hensen wraps up his career with three medals as in 2023 he took home a bronze in the 100 breaststroke. He was also the only swimmer to win a gold medal that was not from Gettysburg or Swarthmore this weekend.
- Nathan Rawa earned bronze in the 100 backstroke on Saturday night with a Shoremen Swimming all-time record best time of 50.34. He also moved up to second all-time in program history in the 100 butterfly on Saturday night with a time of 49.92, good for a fifth place finish in the event. In the preliminary round of the 100 fly, he set the WC record with a time of 49.67. On Sunday night in the 200 backstroke he was seventh with a time of 1:54.85, but in the preliminary round earlier on Sunday he tallied a time of 1:51.32 which improves on his third best time in team history.
- Zach Affeldt earned bronze in the 200-yard breaststroke for the second straight year with a time of 2:04.02 as Washington won gold and bronze in the event. In his four seasons at the championships, he earned three bronze medals (2022, 24-25) and a silver (2023) in the 200 breaststroke.  On Saturday, the senior was seventh in the 400 individual medley in 4:08.43.

Record Setting Relay
- The 400-yard medley relay team of Rawa, Hensen, Justin Fitzpatrick and James Hackett just missed winning bronze for the third straight year by finishing fourth, but did set a program mark with a time of 3:22.16 on Friday evening. Rawa's 50.52 lead off time in the backstroke portion of the event was his all-time best time and is now second all-time in the 100 backstroke. 

Other Shoremen Top Individual Performances
- Shane Brace took home a sixth with a time of 1:53.97 in the 200 butterfly.
- Gabe Summa tallied a time of 52.55 in the 100 backstroke for 13th place. The freshman led off the 400 medley relay with a time of 51.41 in the 100 backstroke and is now the fifth fastest swimmer in team history. He also earned 14th place in the 100 butterfly (51.13) and with his time of 51.08 in the preliminary round is now sixth all-time at WC. Summa was also 15th in the 200 backstroke (2:02.56)
- Fitzpatrick was 15th in the 100 butterfly (51.60).
- William Schmidt had a 13th place finish in the 200 backstroke (1:58.00) and 15th in the 200 individual medley (1:58.41). 
- Connor Kravitz-Yoffee placed 14th in the 1650 freestyle (17:07.63) and 15th in the 500-freestyle (4:50.32).
- Joey Bond finished 14th in the 200 breaststroke (2:14.43).
- Carson Dolezal was 14th in the 200 butterfly (2:00.95).
- Hackett totaled a time of 47.37 in the 100 backstroke for a 16th place finish and is now 10th all-time at WC in the event.

Other Shoremen Top Relay Performances
- The 200-medley relay quartet of Rawa, Hensen, Fitzpatrick and Mike Lee took sixth place in 1:33.01 on Thursday evening.
- The 800 freestyle foursome of Affeldt, Hackett, Schmidt and Lee landed in sixth in 7:05.15 on Thursday night.
- Rawa, Hackett, Lee and Hensen were sixth overall in the 200 freestyle relay on Saturday evening (1:24.76). Rawa had a leadoff time of 21.05 which places him fourth all-time at WC in the 50 freestyle.
- In the 400 freestyle relay, the Shoremen finished sixth with a time of 3:07.07 and Rawa's leadoff leg now has tops all-time in the 100 free at 46.36 on Sunday night in the final event of the championships. Rawa was joined by Hackett, Fitzpatrick and Hensen in the relay.

Notes
- Swarthmore won the event with 928 points, finishing 36 points ahead of Gettysburg who had 892 for second place.  Host Franklin & Marshall was third with 466 points followed by Dickinson, who had 349 points.  Spots five through seven were Washington (344), Ursinus (314) and McDaniel (148).
- The seniors on the 2024-25 Shoremen were Affeldt, Fitzpatrick, Hensen, Schmidt, Patrick Downes and CJ Dunker.