2026 WIAC Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship Preview

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse will try for a second consecutive first-place end on the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Women’s Swimming & Diving Championship (offered by Culver’s) that will probably be held at Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, Wis., Feb. 18-21. UW-Whitewater is the host establishment of the 54th version of the ladies’s championship that will probably be held in unison with the 63rd gathering of the lads’s groups.

 

Competition begins on Feb. 18 at 1:45 p.m., with the preliminaries of the lads’s three-meter diving. The finals will begin at 6:30 p.m., and embrace a pair of relay occasions. For competitors held Feb. 19 and Feb. 20, preliminaries will start at 10:00 a.m., with the finals commencing at 6:30 p.m. The ultimate day will characteristic 10:00 a.m. preliminaries and a 5:45 p.m. begin for the finals. Medals will probably be awarded to the top-eight finishers in every of the person occasions and the people comprising the top-three relay groups.

 

In the 2025, UW-La Crosse gained the twenty second title in program archives with 1,018 factors – the best whole on the championship since 2005. UW-Eau Claire positioned second with 855 factors, UW-Stevens Point third with 520, UW-Oshkosh fourth with 406 and UW-Whitewater fifth with 332.

 

UW-Eau Claire owns 21 convention championships, whereas UW-Stevens Point has six titles and former member UW-Madison secured 4 first-place finishes.

Returning champions in particular person occasions embrace: UW-Eau Claire’s Molly Hosack (2024 & 2025/500-yard freestyle; 2024 & 2025/1,650-yard freestyle), Elaina Plonis (2025/100-yard butterfly; 2023, 2024 & 2025/200-yard butterfly) and Emma Vogen (2025/400-yard particular person medley); UW-La Crosse’s Joanne Banaszak (2025/one-meter diving, 2024 & 2025/three-meter diving) and Zoey Rank (2025/200-yard particular person medley); and UW-Stevens Point’s Kasey Fris (2022/400-yard particular person medley; 2023/200-yard backstroke; 2024/200-yard particular person medley). Banaszak has claimed the Diver of the Meet award every of the final two championships, whereas Rank acquired Newcomer of the Year honors a season in the past.

 

Individuals which have claimed first-place relay medals at earlier championships embrace: UW-Eau Claire’s Molly Hosack (2023, 2024 & 2025/800-yard freestyle relay, 2025/400-yard freestyle relay), Elaina Plonis (2024/400-yard medley relay), Grace Schnabl (2023, 2024 & 2025/800-yard freestyle relay, 2025/400-yard freestyle relay) and Emma Vogen (2025/800-yard freestyle relay); UW-La Crosse’s Libby Cleveland (2024 & 2025/200-yard freestyle relay, 2024 & 2025/200-yard medley relay, 2025/400-yard medley relay), Reilly Eiynck (2023/400-yard freestyle relay), Brooke Laube (2024/200-yard freestyle relay), Ava Pulvermacher (2025/200-yard freestyle relay), Zoey Rank (2025/200-yard medley relay and 400-yard medley relay) and Paige Rundahl (2023/400-yard freestyle relay, 2024/200-yard freestyle relay); and UW-Stevens Point’s Kasey Fris (2022/200-yard freestyle relay and 800-yard freestyle relay).

 

UW-Oshkosh has acquired robust swimming performances in 2026 from Callee DeBruin, whereas Maya Indiraraj is the Titans’ prime diver.

 

Olivia Santiago has been UW-Whitewater’s prime diver this season, whereas Hailey Vogel has produced the highest swimming instances.

 

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