Athenas 400 Medley Relay Earns First-Team All-America, Kan Breaks Own 50 Free Record
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The 400-yard medley relay team of Nika Makhervaks, Elyse Newlands, Sun Young Byun and Madeleine Kan earned first-team All-America honors and broke a CMS program record, and Kan broke her own 50-yard freestyle record with the first sub-23 second swim in program history, to highlight the performance of the CMS women's swimming and diving team on the first day of the NCAA Division III Championships.
<img alt="CMS 400 medley relay team poses on the podium" src="https://cmsathletics.org/common/controls/image_handler.aspx?thumb_prefix=rp_primary&image_path=/images/2026/3/18/SWIM_CHAMPIONSHIP__2026_DAY_1_FIN_1.JPG" /><br /><br />INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The 400-yard medley relay team of Nika Makhervaks, Elyse Newlands, Sun Young Byun and Madeleine Kan earned first-team All-America honors and broke a CMS program record, and Kan broke her own 50-yard freestyle record with the first sub-23 second swim in program history, to highlight the performance of the CMS women's swimming and diving team on the first day of the NCAA Division III Championships.