Slavik & Watts Lead SJU on Day 3 of MIAC Championships

By: Ryan Klinkner, SJU Director of Athletic Communications

Day 3 Results

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Saint John’s senior Brayden Slavik (Green Isle, Minn./Chaska) received his second convention title of the meet on Day 3 of the 2026 MIAC Championships on Friday, Feb. 13, on the University of Minnesota Jean Freeman Aquatic Center.

Gustavus Adolphus leads the six-team area with 658 factors, adopted by Carleton (441.5), Saint John’s (388) and Macalester (333.5).

Slavik received his third-consecutive convention title within the 400-yard particular person medley with an SJU-record and NCAA B-cut time of three:57.55, which was over seven seconds forward of second place (4:04.82). The time broke Slavik’s personal file time of 4:00.12 set final yr. Freshman Lincoln Cochran (Helena, Mont./Capital) adopted him in seventh (4:14.02).

Three Johnnies mixed for 9 factors within the 400 IM’s B remaining, led by junior Trevor Barton’s (Buffalo, Minn.) Eleventh-place time of 4:21.70. Junior Luis Flores (Hugo, Minn./Mahtomedi) and freshman Dylan Murphy (Hamel, Minn./Wayzata) adopted in fifteenth (4:36.87) and sixteenth (4:44.28), respectively.

Junior Cody Watts (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) collected his fourth All-MIAC honor (prime three on the MIAC Championships) with a career-best second-place end within the 1-meter dive (434.05). Senior Tim Rotter (Blaine, Minn.) and sophomore Henry Hilgendorf (Owatonna, Minn.) mirrored Wednesday evening’s podium within the 3-meter dive by ending fourth (370.40) and fifth (351.40), respectively.

A pair of freshmen led SJU within the 200-yard freestyle. Vincent Schulze (Eden Prairie, Minn.) simply missed his first particular person, All-MIAC honor with a fourth-place time of 1:43.81, which was 0:00.22 from third. Braydon Ohrtman (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) adopted in eighth (1:45.61).

Senior Clay Megaw (Monticello, Minn.), like Schulze, fell one spot shy of All-MIAC honors with a fourth-place time of 57.86 seconds within the 100-yard breaststroke. Three different Johnnies adopted him within the B remaining: sophomore Jason Jones (Monticello, Minn.) in twelfth (1:00.03), junior Brennan Close (Princeton, Minn.) in 14th (1:02.12) and junior Simon Nyangamoi (Harrisburg, S.D.) in sixteenth (1:03.82).

A trio of Johnnies registered group factors within the 100-yard backstroke’s B remaining. Senior Andrew Roggeman (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) led the way in which in Eleventh (54.48), whereas freshman Tanner Betts (Stacy, Minn./Chisago Lakes) took 14th (55.52) and sophomore Riley Yerks (Hutchinson, Minn.) claimed sixteenth (58.16).

SJU’s 200-yard freestyle relay (Schulze, Slavik, Jackson Hovda, David Lammers) completed fifth (1:25.71).

The fourth and remaining day of competitors begins with prelims at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, adopted by finals at 6:30 p.m. in Minneapolis. The males’s facet options the 1,650-yard freestyle, 200-yard backstroke, 100-yard freestyle, 200-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly and 400-yard freestyle relay.