NU Dominates at UChicago, Units Pool, Private Data

EVANSTON, Ill. – Visiting the University of Chicago, the Northwestern males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving groups resumed their 2025-26 seasons, beginning the New Year with victory on Saturday.

The No. 25-ranked males’s squad claimed a win after defeating the Maroons, 222-76. The No. 21 ladies’s group, which just lately returned to the nationwide rankings, additionally took down UChicago 247-45, claiming a minimum of the highest two finishes in every occasion.

Ten Wildcats claimed private bests, setting the tone for NU’s dominant efficiency. On the lads’s facet, Oliver Feng, Stuart Seymour, Jack Doyle and Josh Staples improved their particular person data. Teya Nikolova and Zoe Nordmann highlighted the day for the ladies’s group, joined by Sydney Smith, Lindsay Ervin, Hana Shimizu-Bowers and Kayla Rodriguez, with private finest marks.

The neighborly meet started with the 200 medley relay. NU’s Grey Davis, Nikolova, Ekaterina Nikonova and Ervin completed first, breaking a pool report in 1:38.59. The males’s quartet additionally took first, as Seymour, Staples, Oli Kos and Connor Schuster claimed one other facility finest in 1:25.15.

Smith clocked her new private finest within the 1000 free, incomes second place behind Madeleine Simmons. In the 100 again, Ervin posted a 54.52 end in first, with Shimizu-Bowers not far behind in third at 56.12, each claiming private data.

Nikolova made her mark within the 100 breast, posting a pool report, private finest, and first-place end in 1:01.16, good for sixteenth within the convention. The males swept the highest finishes within the occasion, claiming spots one via 4.

In the 200 fly, Nordmann clocked a 2:00.21 private finest end, atop the rostrum. Feng joined the private finest ‘Cats after his efficiency within the 50 free, posting a 20.50 end for second place.

Seymour and Doyle earned first and second place within the 200 again, claiming private data in 1:43.95 and 1:48.19, respectively. The 200 breast was headlined by Rodriguez on the ladies’s facet and Staples on the lads’s. Rodriguez swam a 2:14.39 for a pool report, whereas Staples posted a 1:54.93 end for a private finest, good for eleventh within the Big Ten.

On the boards, Isabella Chen earned first within the three-meter and second within the one-meter dives. Adam Cohen claimed first in each occasions.

After taking two victories in Chicago, the Wildcats will return to motion on Jan. 17, again dwelling in Evanston, for Senior Day. The Big Ten meet, internet hosting Wisconsin, will start at 4 p.m. CT.