Purchase, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Men's Swimming team finished the 2023 Skyline Conference Championship on Sunday in a tie for runner-up honors, posting a point total of 195. The Knights, who tied for second with Maritime, earned their best finish at the conference championship since placing second in 2016.
 
Joseph Tagliareni (Hackettstown, N.J.) led the charge for the Knights all-weekend and scored the team's best individual finishes of the two-day event. Tagliareni led three Knights to score in both the 200-yard backstroke and 200-yard breaststroke with a fifth-place finish in each event. His backstroke time came in 2:05.62 before touching out in 2:39.74 in the breaststroke race.
 
Tyler Williams (Middlebury, Conn.) and Jackson Lerner (Bayside, N.Y.) each turned in sixth place finishes for the Knights on day two of the championship. Williams took the sixth position in the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:44.45 with Lerner coming home sixth in the 200-yard breaststroke after producing a time of 2:55.14. Williams added a seventh-place swim in the 200-yard backstroke on Sunday with Lerner claiming the ninth position in the backstroke race.
 
Atticus Salazar (Queens, N.Y.) also turned in a pair of strong individual swims on Sunday for the Mount. He took eighth in the 1,000-yard freestyle for the Mount and touched out ninth for the Mount in the 200-yard breaststroke.
 
To close out the championship, Mount Saint Mary swam to a third-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay. The squad of Lerner, Williams, Tagliareni and Salazar posted a time of 3:51.08.
 
The United States Merchant Marine Academy won the team title with an impressive score of 1,075. Mount Saint Mary and Maritime tied for second with 195 points apiece with Purchase taking fourth with 171 points.
 
Mount Saint Mary will look to build on Sunday's finish when it takes part in the Metropolitan Championship Meet starting on February 16.