Swim & Dive Remaining Tune Up At Minnesota First Chance Meet Earlier than MIAC Championships

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Hamline University males’s and ladies’s swimming competed within the Minnesota First Chance Meet on Feb. 6-7 on the University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, taking over a deep area that featured Division I and prime regional applications. The divers additionally competed at Dodd Road Diving Invite at Carleton in Northfield, Minn. on Saturday, Feb, 7. 

On Friday, the Pipers have been represented in dash motion as Tristan Popa posted a 24.83 within the males’s 50 freestyle, whereas Evan Poeschel adopted with a 27.81. Hamline additionally had Natalie Morrison compete within the ladies’s 100 breaststroke, touching in 1:29.09.

Saturday introduced one other robust efficiency from Popa, who clocked a 54.33 within the males’s 100 freestyle.

On the ladies’s facet, Nicole Phillips led the best way with a 59.96 within the 100 freestyle, whereas Katarina Kocher (1:01.87) and Bella Stadheim (1:02.43) additionally posted stable swims within the occasion.

Hamline diving turned in a powerful efficiency on the 2026 Dodd Road Invite, led by standout outcomes from Kevin Bossou and Audrianne Freese towards a aggressive area that includes Carleton, UW-Eau Claire, Macalester, and St. Olaf.

On the lads’s facet, Bossou positioned third within the 1-meter (11 dives) with a rating of 362.85, ending behind a pair of UWEC divers. He adopted that up with one other huge efficiency on the 3-meter board, taking second place within the 3-meter (11 dives) with a rating of 405.30, solely trailing Carleton’s Hans Anderson.

Freese led the best way for Hamline on the ladies’s boards, incomes a second-place end within the 1-meter (1 voluntary, 5 non-obligatory) with a rating of 160.30. She additionally competed within the 3-meter occasion and positioned seventh with a rating of 156.85.

Overall, the meets served as an vital late-season alternative for Hamline to race towards elite competitors and achieve beneficial expertise heading into the MIAC championships.