MIAC Championships Start Wednesday for SJU Swim & Dive in Minneapolis

By: Ryan Klinkner, SJU Director of Athletic Communications and Jordan Modjeski, SJU Assistant Director of Athletic Communications

The Saint John’s swimming and diving group competes on the four-day MIAC Championships this Wednesday-Saturday (Feb. 11-14) on the University of Minnesota’s Jean Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis. – Live Results | Live Video | Tickets | Championship Website 
 
TICKET INFORMATION: All tickets will likely be offered and bought on-line by way of DwellingTown Ticketing. There is not going to be money gross sales on the venue; nevertheless, spectators can buy tickets utilizing a pc or cell machine at any time, together with whereas on the venue. To buy tickets at any time, click on here. 
  
“All-session” tickets will grant admission to all seven classes of the Championships. Adult passes are $73 and scholar passes are $31. DwellingTown Ticketing charges are included with the all-sessions move; nevertheless, further comfort and bank card prices will likely be added at checkout. Children ages 5 and beneath don’t require a ticket. Those eligible for scholar tickets embrace people presently enrolled in an undergraduate school, highschool, center college, and elementary college. A scholar ID is required the place relevant. 
  
Single-session tickets are additionally accessible for buy on-line solely. Single-session grownup tickets are $12 every, whereas scholar tickets are $6. Additional comfort and bank card charges will likely be utilized at checkout. Children ages 5 and beneath don’t require a ticket. 
 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: The four-day meet begins with the boys’s 3-meter diving prelims at 6 p.m. Wednesday, adopted by finals at 7:30 p.m. The different three days start with prelims at 10:30 a.m., adopted by finals at 6:30 p.m. 
 
Wednesday, Feb. 11 (6 p.m./7:30 p.m.) 
-200-Yard Medley Relay 
-3-Meter Diving 
-800-Yard Freestyle Relay 
 
Thursday, Feb. 12 (10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.) 
-500-Yard Freestyle 
-200-Yard Individual Medley 
-50-Yard Freestyle 
-400-Yard Medley Relay 
 
Friday, Feb. 13 (10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.) 
-400-Yard Individual Medley 
-100-Yard Butterfly 
-200-Yard Freestyle 
-100-Yard Breaststroke 
-100-Yard Backstroke 
-1-Meter Diving 
-200-Yard Freestyle Relay 
 
Saturday, Feb. 14 (10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.) 
-1,650-Yard Freestyle 
-200-Yard Backstroke 
-100-Yard Freestyle 
-200-Yard Breaststroke 
-200-Yard Butterfly 
-400-Yard Freestyle Relay

A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: A handful of Saint John’s swimming student-athletes competed at Division I Minnesota’s two-day First Chance Meet final weekend (Feb. 6-7). 

 

Sophomore Dylan Gaspard (Victoria, Minn./Waconia) posted a 14th-place end within the 100-yard backstroke (1:02.24). 

 

Senior Henry Luetmer (Medina, Minn./Orono) touched the wall in 23.07 within the 50-yard freestyle for twenty second. 

 

Junior Ben Edwards (Burnsville, Minn.) competed in each the 50- (23.09) and 100-yard (50.74) freestyles, ending twenty third in each. He was additionally ninth within the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 57.43. 

 

The Johnnies additionally gained 12 of the 16 occasions in a 157-143 victory over Carleton on Saturday, Jan. 24, within the Warner Palaestra Pool.

The Johnnies registered 20 top-three performances. Three seniors posted a complete of seven particular person wins, whereas SJU swept the diving competitors in opposition to Carleton’s All-American diving squad. 

 

Senior Brayden Slavik (Green Isle, Minn./Chaska) gained three occasions, together with a pool-record time of 16:10.20 within the 1,650-yard freestyle. The earlier pool report was 16:23.13 set by St. Olaf’s Ryan Palmer in 2000.

 

The reigning MIAC Men’s Swimming Athlete of the Week was additionally first within the 200-yard backstroke (1:56.32) and 200-yard particular person medley (1:57.65), gathering three particular person occasion wins for the second week in a row. 

 

Slavik was additionally the ultimate leg of the Johnnies’ first-place, 200-yard freestyle relay (Reuter, Hovda, Schulze, Slavik) in 1:26.91. The 200-yard medley relay (Roggeman, Megaw, Reuter, Schulze) was second (1:39.38).

 

Senior Carsten Reuter (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) dominated the quick sprints, ending first within the 50- (21.92) and 100-yard (48.90) freestyles.

 

Senior Clay Megaw (Monticello, Minn.) joined his classmates with a pair of wins on Senior Day, sweeping the breaststroke occasions with instances of 59.69 seconds (100-yard) and a couple of:12.90 (200-yard).

 

Junior Cody Watts (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) topped final season’s MIAC Diver of the Year, the Knights’ Hans Anderson, to win the 1- (273.70) and 3-meter (238.65) dives. Sophomore Henry Hilgendorf (Owatonna, Minn.) was third on the 1-meter board (201.90), whereas senior Tim Rotter (Blaine, Minn.) took third within the 3-meter dive (191.70).

 

Freshman Vincent Schulze (Eden Prairie, Minn.) added one other victory for the house group, touching the wall first within the 200-yard freestyle (1:47.91) and second, 0.26 of a second behind his first-place teammate Reuter, within the 100-yard model of the identical stroke. 

 

Junior Trevor Barton (Buffalo, Minn.) claimed first within the 500-yard freestyle (4:57.57) and took second within the 200-yard freestyle (1:49.31).

 

Freshman Braydon Ohrtman (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) adopted Barton within the 500-yard freestyle (5:01.97) for second. Sophomore Jason Jones (Monticello, Minn.) and freshman Lincoln Cochran (Helena, Mont./Capital) added a pair of third-place finishes, with Jones ending the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:02.60 and Cochran the 200-yard particular person medley in 2:06.70.

THIS WEEK

Defending His Title

Slavik is the defending MIAC Swimmer of the Year after sharing the award final winter with Gustavus Adolphus fifth-year Peyton Richardson. Slavik broke three program information, together with two of his personal, to win the 400-yard particular person medley (4:00.12), 500-yard freestyle (4:29.49) and 1,650-yard freestyle (15:32.98) on the 2025 MIAC Championships. 

 

The titles within the 400-yard particular person medley and 1,650-yard freestyle have been the second-consecutive for Slavik, who additionally served as the primary leg of the Johnnies’ 800-yard freestyle relay that broke the college report with a time of 6:46.79 to win this system’s first MIAC championship within the occasion.

Double-Digit All-MIAC

A pair of senior Johnnies, Reuter and Slavik, every have eclipsed double digit All-MIAC honors (prime three on the convention meet). Reuter is an 11-time All-MIAC honoree and three-time MIAC Champion (one particular person and two relay). Reuter gained the 50-yard freestyle in 20.56 finally 12 months’s championship, a time that ranks second on this system all-time listing behind nationwide champion Matt Zelen ’99. Slavik, in the meantime, is a six-time MIAC champion (5 particular person and one relay) and 10-time All-MIAC honoree.

Going the Distance

Slavik’s 2025 championship time of 15:32.98 within the 1,650-yard freestyle was a meet-, SJU- and MIAC report time and cleared the NCAA B reduce by practically 18 seconds (15:50.88). It was additionally 10 seconds sooner than the invited time from final 12 months’s NCAA Championships (15:43.03). Slavik presently ranks tenth in Division III with an NCAA B reduce time of 15:43.14 within the 1,650-yard freestyle, a mark he reached on the midseason Rochester Invitational. He secured All-America honorable point out honors (locations ninth-Sixteenth) – this system’s first within the occasion – with a seventh-place time of 15:46.84, out of 14 swimmers on the 2025 NCAA Championships final March.

Rewarding Relays

The Johnnies took house first in three of 5 relays on the 2025 convention meet. SJU touched the wall first within the 200-yard (1:22.21), 400-yard (3:03.22) and 800-yard (6:46.79) freestyle relays. SJU completed second within the 200 medley (1:32.63) – behind Gustavus’ 1:31.17 – and the 400 medley (3:23.50) – trailing GAC’s 3:20.82.

Upperclassman Leadership

Sixteen returning upperclassmen mixed for 227 particular person factors for SJU final season. In complete, the group has scored 530 factors of their careers. Reuter, Slavik and Watts earned 5 All-MIAC honors and 4 championships. Reuter, Slavik and Megaw all swam on no less than one in all SJU’s 5 All-MIAC relays. Megaw completed sixth within the 100-yard breaststroke (58.34) and ninth within the 200-yard model (2:10.58) on the 2025 convention meet. He presently owns the fourth quickest instances in SJU historical past in each occasions.  

 

Freshman Points

A trio of sophomores scored factors for SJU on the MIAC Championships as freshmen in 2025. Riley Yerks (Hutchinson, Minn.) took eleventh within the 200-yard backstroke (2:02.59) for six factors. Jones mixed for 13 complete, taking seventh within the 200-yard breaststroke (2:12.99), twelfth within the 100-yard breaststroke (1:00.37) and Sixteenth within the 200-yard particular person medley (2:02.90). Krotzer scored eight, 4 every within the 1- (175.45) and 3-meter (236.05) dives.

More Rankings

In addition to Slavik’s top-10 time within the 1,650-yard freestyle, he additionally sits eleventh within the 500-yard freestyle with an NCAA B reduce of 4:30.15 and twelfth within the 1,000-yard freestyle with an NCAA B reduce of 9:30.13. Only one different MIAC swimmer is ranked within the prime 50 – Gustavus’ Braden Ripken within the 50-yard breaststroke (14th). Both the 1,000-yard freestyle and 50-yard breaststroke are non-MIAC Championship occasions. 

Diving Prowess

Watts claimed third within the 1-meter dive for the second-straight season finally 12 months’s MIAC meet. He certified for the NCAA Regional together with his 1-meter performances in opposition to St. Cloud State (279.35) and 432.25 in opposition to GAC in final January. He completed tenth within the 1-meter dive (392.50) and fifteenth on the 3-meter board (361.95). Watts has already certified for this 12 months’s regional, most lately with an 11-dive 496.85 on the 1-meter board at Gustavus. 

Athletes of the Week

Three Johnnies have mixed to win 11 MIAC weekly awards this season. A Johnnie has been named both the Swimmer or Diver of the Week in all however two weeks of the 2025-26 season. Slavik has gained six MIAC Swimmer of the Week honors and 12 in his profession, whereas Watts collected 4 Diver of the Week awards and 6 in his three-year profession. Hilgendorf additionally earned his first weekly award on Feb. 3 of this season.

IN THE MIAC: The Johnnies enter the MIAC Championships with 31 top-10 scores/instances within the convention this season, together with seven within the prime slot (5 by Slavik, one every by Reuter and Watts).

50-Yard Freestyle

1. Carsten Reuter, 21.11

t8. Vincent Schulze, 21.71

100-Yard Freestyle

1. Brayden Slavik, 46.92

2. Carsten Reuter, 47.05

200-Yard Freestyle

4. Vincent Schulze, 1:45.55

5. Brayden Slavik, 1:46.06

6. Carsten Reuter, 1:46.27

500-Yard Freestyle

1. Brayden Slavik, 4:30.15

8. Trevor Barton, 4:52.39

1,000-Yard Freestyle

1. Brayden Slavik, 9:30.13

9. Trevor Barton, 10:28.81

1,650-Yard Freestyle

1. Brayden Slavik, 15:43.14

7. Trevor Barton, 17:15.02

50-Yard Backstroke

5. Brayden Slavik, 24.83

100-Yard Backstroke

4. Brayden Slavik, 52.23

200-Yard Backstroke

4. Brayden Slavik, 1:56.32

50-Yard Breaststroke

3. Clay Megaw, 27.48

100-Yard Breaststroke

6. Clay Megaw, 59.69

200-Yard Breaststroke

6. Clay Megaw, 2:12.74

8. Lincoln Cochran, 2:14.27

200-Yard Individual Medley

4. Brayden Slavik, 1:58.25

400-Yard Individual Medley

1. Brayden Slavik, 4:04.88

6. Lincoln Cochran, 4:18.11

1-Meter Dive (6 Dives)

1. Cody Watts, 281.60

3. Henry Hilgendorf, 227.20

4. Tim Rotter, 216.50

8. Nate Krotzer, 132.05

3-Meter Dive (6 Dives)

2. Cody Watts, 327.40

3. Henry Hilgendorf, 312.00

4. Tim Rotter, 300.15

8. Nate Krotzer, 151.90