Swimming and Diving Competes at Wisconsin Personal College Championships

KENOSHA, WI – Over an exciting two-day weekend at Carthage College, the Beloit College Buccaneers swimming and diving groups delivered a standout efficiency on the 2026 Wisconsin Privates Championship. Competing in opposition to a deep area of regional rivals together with Carthage, St. Norbert, and MSOE, the Buccaneers secured a number of particular person titles and top-five workforce rankings.

By the conclusion of the meet on January 31, the Beloit girls captured fifth place total with 59 factors, whereas the lads’s squad powered their solution to a 4th place end with 47 factors.

The weekend was highlighted by two spectacular particular person championships. On the lads’s aspect, Jeremy Mueller (Loves Park, Ill.) proved his dominance within the 200-yard Individual Medley. Mueller touched the wall at 1:57.28, keeping off a tricky problem from Carthage’s Tyson Politsch to take the gold. Mueller additionally added a powerful 4th-place end within the 100-yard Breaststroke (1:02.54).

On the ladies’s aspect, Lydia Nordgren (South Beloit, Ill.) showcased her velocity within the 100-yard Butterfly. Nordgren outpaced the sphere with a time of 1:00.52 to assert the highest spot on the rostrum. She remained a drive all through the meet, additionally securing a Ninth-place end within the 100-yard Freestyle (57.96) and anchoring a number of key relays.

Beloit’s diving contingent was spearheaded by Elsa Gregory, who offered a large factors enhance for the ladies’s workforce. Gregory earned a silver medal within the 3-meter diving occasion with a rating of 319.40 and adopted it up with a bronze-medal efficiency within the 1-meter occasion (302.00). On the lads’s aspect, Jacob Fuller (Beloit, Wis.) was a dual-threat on the boards, inserting seventh within the 3-meter and Ninth within the 1-meter.

The Buccaneers’ depth was on full show in the course of the relay occasions. The girls’s 400-yard Freestyle Relay workforce (Kelsey Gerstler, Lylah Murrah (North Pole, AK), Amelia Pullen (New Orleans, La.), and Nordgren) battled to a 4th-place end with a time of three:59.03. Additionally, the ladies’s 200-yard Medley Relay workforce secured fifth place (2:02.73), underscoring the workforce’s balanced expertise throughout all strokes.

The Buccaneers head to De Pere subsequent Saturday for a double-dual with St. Norbert and Lake Forest. Action from the Mulva Family Fitness & Sports Center at 1 pm.