Swimming & Diving Racks Up Seven Gold Medals On Day 2 of GLVC Championships

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The first full day of the 2026 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships is within the books, and the UIndy Greyhounds discover themselves squarely within the hunt for each the boys’s and girls’s crowns. The Greyhound gold rush netted seven first-place finishes in 9 complete occasions on the day, with each UIndy squads sitting in second place within the present crew standings.
 
The annual convention meet, which is being held at Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind., continues Thursday morning, with prelims beginning at 11 a.m. ET. The occasion began Tuesday night and can kicked off via Saturday night time.
 
TEAM STANDINGS THRU DAY 2 (prime 4 solely) 

 
WEDNESDAY
UIndy crafted numerous spectacular performances on the day. Junior diver Megan Sunderman obtained the ball rolling with a gold-medal efficiency on the 3-meter board. It marked the primary profession convention gold for Sunderman and the eighth within the final 9 years for Hounds within the occasion.
 
Later within the lap pool, Jeremias Pock delivered one of many extra spectacular swims of the night time, setting each faculty and convention information within the 200 IM. His gold-medal time of 1:43.63 was good for the quickest time in Division II all 12 months.
 
Senior distance standout Swann Plaza additionally wrote his identify within the file books. His 1000 free victory yielded a conference-record time of 8:53.72, topping all DII student-athletes this season.
 
On the ladies’s aspect, Kirabo Namutebi captured her third consecutive GLVC gold medal within the 50 free. The achieved sprinted touched the wall in 22.20 seconds, resetting the league file and holding her identify on the prime of the DII ranks.
 
Graduate-student Celina Schmidt added to her adorned profession with a win within the 200 IM, main a quartet of Hounds within the prime 9.
 
Zachary Anthony shared the silver medal within the males’s 50 free with a 19.93, Sydney Alamein and Jan Schmidt positioned fourth of their respective 1000 free races, and Silas Buessing (fifth) and Nico Basten (seventh) racked up important factors within the males’s 200 IM ultimate.
 
The Greyhound capped the fruitful night by sweeping gold within the 200 medley relay. The girls’s crew of Valentina Masella, Schmidt, Caprice Schlueter and Namutebi mixed for a profitable time of 1:40.08; whereas the boys’s quartet of Camille Trinquesse, Pock, Elias Noe and Johann-Matthew Matamoro touched first with a 1:25.54.
 
TUESDAY

The 2026 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships obtained underway Tuesday night time at Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind. With solely the 800 freestyle relay on the docket, the UIndy secured a pair of medals and a faculty file within the two occasions.
 
The males’s crew of Jan Schmidt, Harrison Andoko, Jokubas Jankauskas and Swann Plaza mixed for a time of 6:26.61, resetting this system file by greater than a second whereas additionally netting a bronze medal.  The Greyhounds girls received the silver, with the quartet of Valentina Masella, Lillie Arps. Celina Schmidt and Caroline Reinke combining for a 7:26.12. The girls hit an NCAA B lower whereas the boys improved their provisional standing.
 
The Greyhound B groups additionally contributed to the trigger. The males’s crew of Nico Basten, William Pettifer, Camille Trinquesse and Silas Buessing received their warmth with a 6:37.51, good for the fourth-fastest time of the night. The UIndy girls’s B crew of Hanna Burke, Malaika Claudic, Sydney Alamein and Dana Dominguez took the runner-up spot of their preliminary warmth.