Males’s Swim & Dive Competing for Seventh Consecutive Title at MIAC Championship this Week

MINNEAPOLIS – The Gustavus Adolphus College males’s swimming and diving workforce is about to compete within the 2026 MIAC Championship this week. Hosted on the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatic Center on the University of Minnesota campus, the four-day championship begins on Wednesday, February 11 and runs by Saturday, February 14.
 
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN
 
The Gusties have received the MIAC title six occasions in a row and start the 2026 championship with aspirations for a seventh. Gustavus’ started their title streak with back-to-back titles in 2019 and 2020. The 2021 championship was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, however the Gusties picked up proper the place they left off in 2022 and have received the title each season since.
 

Gustavus has received the second-most MIAC males’s swim & dive championships within the historical past of the convention. The Gusties enter this 12 months’s championship with 27 titles of their historical past, trailing solely the 30 held by St. Olaf. Macalester follows in third with 17.
 
GOING FOR GOLD
 
Five Gusties enter the convention championship week holding prime occasions in eight particular person occasions this winter. Braden Ripken leads the MIAC within the 50 (25.35) and 100 (54.73) breaststroke occasions, together with his time within the 100 being the 14^th quickest within the nation this season for DIII. Josh Wallin holds the highest occasions within the convention for the 50 (23.81) and 100 (50.84) backstroke occasions. Declan Vahey holds the highest convention occasions within the 200 backstroke (1:52.43) and the 200 IM (1:55.01). Aiden Shermak leads the 200 freestyle at 1:43.27. Britton Patee stands atop the 200 fly leaderboard at 1:55.49.
 
Gustavus holds the highest MIAC time in all 5 relay occasions this winter, main within the 200 (1:25.18), 400 (3:08.47), and 800 (7:07.12) free relays in addition to the 200 (1:31.56) and 400 (3:26.03) medley relays.
 
The Gusties are properly represented within the convention’s top-20 leaderboard for particular person swimming occasions this season, holding 152 of the 360 whole top-20 occasions. Gustavus enters the championship with 48 of the 120 top-20 occasions within the six freestyle occasions, 31 of the 60 within the three backstroke occasions, 22 of the 60 within the three breaststroke occasions, 27 of the 60 within the three butterfly occasions, and 24 of the 60 within the three IM occasions.

TICKET & ADMISSION INFORMATION

 

All tickets will as soon as once more be bought and bought on-line through ResidenceTown Ticketing. There is not going to be money gross sales on the venue; nevertheless, spectators should purchase tickets utilizing a cell gadget at any time, together with whereas on the venue. To buy tickets at any time, click on the MIAC’s HomeTown Ticketing site.

 

“All-session” tickets will grant admission to all seven periods of the Championships. Adult passes are $73, and pupil passes are $31. (Note: $3 ResidenceTown Ticketing price included; further comfort and bank card charges might be added throughout checkout.) Children ages 5 and beneath don’t require a ticket. Those eligible for pupil tickets embrace people presently enrolled in school, highschool, center faculty, and elementary faculty. Student ID is required the place relevant.

 

Single-session tickets are additionally obtainable for buy on-line solely. Single-session grownup tickets are $12 every, whereas pupil tickets are $6. (Note: further ResidenceTown Ticketing comfort and bank card charges might be added throughout checkout). Children ages 5 and beneath don’t require a ticket.

 

As a reminder, glass is strictly prohibited contained in the Jean Okay. Freeman Aquatic Center. Please don’t carry any glass water bottles or vases into the venue.

FOLLOW THE ACTION

 

The 2026 MIAC Swimming and Diving Championship homepage options the whole occasion schedules, psych sheet, venue data, ticket pricing, and streaming hyperlinks. The web site might be up to date all through the occasion with warmth sheets, outcomes, recaps, and pictures.

 

All periods of the championships might be streamed freed from cost on the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center’s YouTube page.

 

Live outcomes can even be updated online as every occasion is accomplished.

 

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