PITMAN, N.J. – The Salisbury University women's swimming team garnered 13 placements
on the 2025 All-New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Teams, with
Nate Parsley and the Sea Gull coaches repeating as Coaching Staff of the Year, as revealed by the league office on Tuesday morning.
The Sea Gulls captured six First-Team All-NJAC nods by virtue of winning six events at February's NJAC Swimming & Diving Championships in Hampton, Va., the team's first conference golds since 2001.
Sydney McCallie led the way with a trio of First Teams in the 200-yard breaststroke, 200 individual medley, and 400 individual medley, while
Sadie Hebert was tabbed for the First Team in the 500 freestyle. Salisbury also slotted First Team in the 400 free relay (
Mackenzie Gula,
Elizabeth Perry,
Alexa Hilty, McCallie) and the 800 free relay (Hebert,
Rachel Rickabaugh,
Jenna Krawlzik, McCallie).
SU's Second-Team honorees include Hebert (200 fly),
Maddie Powell (200 breast), and the 200 free relay team (McCallie, Hilty,
Lily Griffin, Perry). Honorable Mention for third-place finishes include Krawlzik (500 free),
Sierra Wakefield (200 fly), Gula (200 IM), and the 200 medley relay team (
Delaney Gibbons, Gula, Hebert, Perry).
Flanked by assistant coaches
Keaton Burke,
Chase McClure, and
Jill Stephenson, Parsley took the Sea Gull women to new heights in his fourth season at the helm. This is the quartet's second straight NJAC Coaching Staff of the Year honor and first outright after sharing it with Mary Washington in 2024.
With Parsley and company at the helm, Salisbury earned its first-ever College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) national ranking, went a perfect 7-0 in dual meets in 2024-25 – the first undefeated women's season in program history – and won the program's first-ever championship in any conference, dethroning a three-decade, multi-league Mary Washington dynasty to capture the NJAC crown. With 25 All-NJAC honorees across 13 medaled events, SU secured its most-ever women's single-season all-conference awards.
McCallie (Gr. – Mineral Wells, W.V.) became the Sea Gulls' most-decorated women's swimmer at a conference meet, winning three individual gold medals, plus two golds and a silver in relay events. The eventual two-time All-American beat the field to the final wall in the 200 breast (2:18.68), 200 IM (2:04.33), and 400 IM (4:23.69), setting school records in all three events.
Hebert (So. – Damascus, Md.) medaled in four events, taking a gold and silver individually and a gold and bronze in relays. Hebert broke five minutes and set a new program record to win the 500 free (4:59.65), as well as taking second place in the 200 fly (2:06.59).
Salisbury's relay teams won gold medals in the first and last events of the meet. Leading off in the 800 free relay, Hebert, Rickabaugh (So. – Centreville, Md.), Krawlzik (Fr. – West Lawn, Pa.), and McCallie delivered SU a win by smashing the program record in a time of 7:39.14. In the 400 free relay, Gula (Fr. – Bloomingburg, N.Y.), Perry (Gr. – Catonsville, Md.), Hilty (Jr. – York, Pa.), and McCallie clinched the conference crown with another school record of 3:30.67.
Powell (So. – Fairfax, Va.) earned the silver medal in the 200 breast (2:20.43) behind only McCallie's gold. In the 200 free relay, McCallie, Hilty, Griffin (So. – Taneytown, Md.), and Perry locked up second place in a program-record 1:35.35.
Krawlzik reeled in the bronze in the 500 free (5:05.71) to join Hebert on the podium in the event. Wakefield (Jr. – Berlin, Md.) also stood with Hebert on the 200 fly podium by taking third (2:07.02). Gula made it two Sea Gulls in the top three in the 200 IM (2:07.66), standing next to event winner McCallie.
Gibbons (So. – Williamsburg, Va.), Gula, Hebert, and Perry made it medals in four of the five relay events by claiming bronze in the 200 medley relay (1:45.72).
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming) and the Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 202 conference championships, and have produced 50 Academic All-Americans.
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