KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Matheson Bair (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain) set a new pool record and was one of a quartet of swimmers that earned Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference qualifying times Saturday evening as Kutztown men's swimming ended 2025 with a 165-95 victory over Arcadia inside Keystone Natatorium.
 
It is the second straight win for the Golden Bears.
 
Bair's time of 52.31 in the 100 Fly is a new Keystone pool record and is the second-fastest time in program history. He also netted a cut time in the 50 Free of 21.99, winning both events. Andrew Pletz (Allentown, Pa./Parkland), Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) and RJ Otten (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa) also tallied PSAC times, with both Pletz and Otten doing it twice.
 
Pletz won both the 500 and 1000 Free in times of 4:55.48 and 10:06.81, respectively, while Otten won the 200 Fly in a time of 2:01.93 and placed second in the 100 Fly at 54.95. Shaw won the 200 Breast in a time of 2:14.31.
 
The 400 Free Relay team, consisting of Shaw, Reilly Jones (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury), Pletz and Bair capped the night with a first-place finish in a time of 3:18.47.
 
Kutztown is off until the new year and will next compete in the John A. Pidgeon Memorial Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 12 p.m., hosted by IUP in Newville, Pa.
 
Kutztown Results
 
200 Medley Relay
2. Kutztown – Schurr, Miksa, Rivera, Pizzo – 1:41.54
 
1000 Free
1. Andrew Pletz (Allentown, Pa./Parkland) – 10:06.81, PSAC-Qualifying
2. RJ Otten (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa) – 10:29.70
4. Paul Spear (Hatboro, Pa./Upper Moreland) – 10:56.96
 
200 Free
1. Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) – 1:49.13
2. Andrew Pletz (Allentown, Pa./Parkland) – 1:51.29
3. Nigel Pizzo (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) – 1:52.24
 
100 Back
2. Zach Schurr (Chattanooga, Tenn./McCallie School) – 57.64
3. Aaron Jost (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional) – 59.61
4. Nick Rivera (Red Lion, Pa./Dallastown) – 1:00.14
 
100 Breast
1. Theo Miksa (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East) – 1:02.23
3. Reilly Jones (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury) – 1:02.98
 
200 Fly
1. RJ Otten (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa) – 2:01.93, PSAC-Qualifying
5. Gabriel Clauss (Kutztown, Pa./Kutztown) – 2:18.12
 
50 Free
1. Matheson Bair (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain) – 21.99, PSAC-Qualifying
4. Nigel Pizzo (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) – 23.44
5. Nick Rivera (Red Lion, Pa./Dallastown) – 23.76
 
100 Free
1. Matheson Bair (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain) – 48.98
2. Nigel Pizzo (Newtown, Pa./Council Rock North) – 50.45
 
200 Back
2. Zach Schurr (Chattanooga, Tenn./McCallie School) – 2:10.33
3. Aaron Jost (Voorhees, N.J./Eastern Regional) – 2:12.87
 
200 Breast
1. Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) – 2:14.31, PSAC-Qualifying
2. Theo Miksa (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East) – 2:21.14
 
500 Free
1. Andrew Pletz (Allentown, Pa./Parkland) – 4:55.48, PSAC-Qualifying
2. Reilly Jones (Levittown, Pa./Pennsbury) – 5:00.80
5. Paul Spear (Hatboro, Pa./Upper Moreland) – 5:22.55
 
100 Fly
1. Matheson Bair (Orwigsburg, Pa./Blue Mountain) – 52.31, PSAC-Qualifying, Keystone Pool record, 2nd all-time at KU
2. RJ Otten (Ballston Spa, N.Y./Ballston Spa) – 54.95, PSAC-Qualifying
5. Gabriel Clauss (Kutztown, Pa./Kutztown) – 57.45
 
200 IM
1. Nevin Shaw (Lansdale, Pa./North Penn) – 2:06.82
2. Theo Miksa (Doylestown, Pa./Central Bucks East) – 2:09.49
 
400 Free Relay
1. Kutztown – Shaw, Jones, Pletz, Bair – 3:18.47
3. Kutztown – Clauss, Otten, Spear, Rivera – 3:33.87