Panther swim & dive to host annual Purple and Gold Intrasquad

UNI swimming and diving at Purple and Gold Intrasquad 

• 12 p.m. CT | Oct. 4, 2025
• Glen F. Henry Pool | Wellness-Recreation Center
• Cedar Falls, Iowa

 

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The UNI swimming and diving workforce will make its season debut on Saturday afternoon with its annual Purple and Gold Intrasquad meet, set to start at 12 p.m. CT within the Glen F. Henry Pool on the Wellness-Recreation Center. 

The occasion is free to attend and open to all followers. Spectators are additionally inspired to attend the workforce’s annual alumni meet on the WRC starting at 9:30 a.m. CT, adopted by a tailgate.

Serving as a tune-up forward of the common season, the intrasquad meet would be the Panthers’ first likelihood to compete earlier than subsequent Friday, Oct. 10, when UNI travels to Iowa for an away twin meet.

Northern Iowa is coming off a fourth-place end ultimately season’s Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) Championships in Waukee. The Panthers return a variety of gifted athletes from final 12 months’s roster, together with All-MVC performers Morgan Meyer and Abby Lear, each part of the 200-yard freestyle workforce from final 12 months that positioned first on the convention championships, setting a brand new MVC report for a second straight season with this system’s second quickest time ever in 1:30.74. Meyer additionally positioned sixth within the 200-yard freestyle for Northern Iowa on the meet as effectively. 

The Panthers additionally return senior Hannah Nedder, who was part of the 400-yard medley from final season that positioned seventh at convention, and Elyse Brayton, an All-MVC Honorable Mention performer who completed eighth in her first profession MVC A-Final within the 100-yard backstroke. Both have been additionally part of the 200-yard medley that completed in sixth place with a time of 1:41.71, the seventh-fastest mark in workforce historical past. 

In the diving effectively, the Panthers return 4 core divers, together with All-MVC Honorable Mention performers Avery Hogan, Trista Thompson and Erica Peters, the latter of whom competed at NCAA Diving Zones. Sophomore Natalie Devoll returns for UNI with the addition of freshmen Addison Bausman and Eva Coonrad. 

Other notable returners embody Sydney Aird, Abigail Barkhurst, Crystal Benjamin, Jenna Breitbach, Aspen Cole, Natalie Harris, Molly Johnson, Sam Oeltjen, Josie Parton, Peyton Pasqualicchio, Cali Prochaska, Rachel Rolow, Paige Seehawer, and Nikki Walters. 

UNI additionally provides 12 new faces to this system, together with swimmers Jennifer Barajas, Averie Bilskemper, Sabra Brueggen, Julia Eastman, Neriah Giedrys, Natalie Kuboushek, Cassidy Miklos, Ceci Nicholson, Morgan Raether, Charlotte Sander, Kiersten Tarran, and Athieno Wandera. 

 

UNI swimming and diving motion will be adopted all season lengthy on social media on Facebook (UNI Swimming and Diving), X (@uniswimdive) and on Instagram (@uniswimdive). Schedules and rosters, together with the most recent Panther information and data will be discovered on-line at UNIpanthers.com.