UNI swim and dive to journey to Iowa for first twin of season

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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The UNI swimming and diving crew will open the 2025-26 twin schedule on Friday because it makes the quick journey to Iowa City to tackle the Iowa Hawkeyes on the Campus Wellness and Recreation Center.

Action is scheduled to start at 5 p.m. CT with the diving portion of the meet being livestreamed on YouTube, with dwell outcomes additionally accessible on the Meet Mobile app and Dive Meets.

Northern Iowa will probably be in quest of solely its second twin victory towards the Hawkeyes in program historical past, which got here again in October 2021 in Iowa City. Iowa bested the Panthers of their earlier assembly final fall in Cedar Falls by a rating of 173-127. Head coach Nick Lakin, who enters his ninth season on the helm of the UNI program, is UNI’s all-time chief in twin wins with 58.

Friday’s twin comes every week after the Panthers opened their 2025-26 season at house with their annual Purple and Gold Intrasquad meet, a meet that noticed the Purple Team escape with a slim 123-118 win.

UNI returns a variety of expert athletes from final 12 months’s roster, together with All-Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) performers Morgan Meyer and Abby Lear, each part of the 200-yard freestyle relay crew from final 12 months that positioned first on the MVC Championships. Meyer additionally positioned sixth within the 200-yard freestyle for Northern Iowa on the meet as effectively.

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 key returners embrace 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, Kirsten Tarran, and Athieno Wandera. 

 

UNI swimming and diving motion could 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 could be discovered on-line at UNIpanthers.com.