FOREST, Va. – The Old Dominion Athletic Conference released its 2022 Men's Swimming all-conference teams and the Generals had 15 swimmers earn citations, including 10 on the first team. Additionally, W&L claimed two major awards handed out by the conference.
 
First-year Matt Snyder (Bernardsville, N.J./Bernards) and Head Coach Kami Gardner highlighted the honorees. Snyder earned the Men's Rookie of the Meet award and he was named to the All-ODAC First Team, while Gardner collected her third ODAC Men's Coach of the Year award in her 11th season as the men's head coach.
 
Joining Snyder on the All-ODAC First Team was senior Steve Warren (Westfield, N.J./Westfield), junior Colin Whiting (Henrico, Va./Douglas S. Freeman), sophomores Bennett Ehret (Stamford, Conn./Westhill) and Will Hughes (Fairfax, Va./James W. Robinson Secondary) and first-years Stephen Ewing (Las Cruces, N.M./Las Cruces), Matt Fritz (Reston, Va./South Lakes), Luke Nagel (Wayne, Pa./Conestoga), Reese Nelson (Fort Worth, Texas/Fort Worth Country Day) and Baxter Smelzer (Greensboro, N.C./Page).
 
The second team was comprised of juniors Todd Echols (Winston Salem, N.C./RJ Reynolds) and Dawson Kramer (Taylors, S.C./Eastside), sophomore Malachi Eberly (Reading, Pa./Wilson) and first-year Devin Bateman (Fredericksburg, Va./Stafford), while sophomore Will Baxley (Roanoke, Va./Hidden Valley) completed the All-ODAC selections with a third team nod.
 
Snyder won the 200 IM (1:52.98) and also took part on the winning 400 free relay (3:03.63). He added second-place finishes in the 400 IM (4:07.02) and the 100 free (46.22). Warren had a record-breaking meet, setting three individual records and aiding in a record-setting relay. He swam on the winning 200 (1:31.62) and 400 medley relays (3:23.56), with the 200 medley relay team setting new ODAC and meet records. Warren swam a 56.78 in the prelims of the 100 breast to break his own program record, before winning the championship race in an even faster time of 56.76. He added a win in the 200 breast (2:03.48), setting yet another record and registering an NCAA B-cut time.
 
Whiting won the 100 fly (50.31) and placed third in the 200 fly (1:54.08). Ehret swam on the winning 800 free relay (6:49.57) and won the 400 IM (4:06.70), in addition to placing fourth in the 200 fly (1:54.39) and seventh in the 500 free (4:44.86).
 
Hughes swam on the winning 200 free relay (1:22.78), 400 free relay and 800 free relay, and he also placed second in the 200 back (1:53.73), third in the 200 free (1:42.82) and seventh in the 50 free (21.39). Ewing won the 1650 free in a meet- and ODAC-record time of 16:12.81, which was also an NCAA B-cut mark. Ewing also added finishes of fourth in the 200 free (1:44.05) and fifth in the 500 free (4:42.08).
 
Fritz was part of the winning 200 and 400 medley relays and he also won the 100 back (51.65), while adding a third-place finish in the 200 back (1:53.77) and a fourth-place effort in the 200 IM (1:55.73). Nagel helped the 800 free relay to its win and he placed first in the 200 free (1:41.74), third in the 500 free (4:40.01) and seventh in the 100 free (47.32). Nelson came in second in the 100 (50.89) and 200 fly (1:53.18) races and added a sixth-place finish in the 200 IM (1:57.46). Smelzer rounds out the first team honorees with four total wins coming across the 200 and 400 free relays, the 200 medley relay and the 50 (20.80) and 100 free (45.55). Smelzer also placed seventh in the 100 fly (52.32).
 
Echols finished third in the 200 IM (1:54.10) and 200 breast (2:06.66), and placed fourth in the 100 breast (57.24), while Kramer helped the 200, 400 and 800 free relays and the 400 medley relay to wins.  He also finished third in the 100 back (51.92), fourth in the 100 free (46.46) and fifth in the 50 free (21.35). Eberly tied for fourth in the 100 fly (51.04) and came in fifth in the 100 free (47.01), and Bateman registered finishes of third in the 100 fly (50.90), fourth in the 50 free (21.22) and seventh in the 200 fly (1:56.98). Bateman was also part of the winning 200 and 400 medley relays and the 200 free relay.
 
Baxley rounds out the all-conference honorees with a third-place nod after he placed sixth in the 1650 free (17:07.01) and seventh in the 400 IM (4:18.50).
 
Warren earned his third career All-ODAC citation, all of which were first team selections. Whiting, Echols and Kramer each earned their second all-conference honors, while the remaining 11 swimmers appear on the All-ODAC teams for the first time in their careers.
 
The Generals won the 2022 ODAC championship after compiling 933.5 points at the conference meet. It was their seventh conference title in eight years.