EIU Swimming Travels To Summit League Championships

Eastern Illinois vs. Summit League Championship 

Location: Iowa City, Iowa | Iowa Campus Recreation & Wellness Center  

Time: February 18th – Twenty first | Feb. 18 at 12:30 PM | Feb. Nineteenth-Twenty first at 10:00 AM 

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Eastern Illinois will journey to Iowa City, Iowa, for the 2026 Summit League Championships. The four-day occasion will start on Wednesday, February 18th, at 12:30 PM. Both the lads’s and girls’s groups have been chosen eighth total within the Summit League preseason prediction.  Denver was picked to win each the lads’s and girls’s. 

Zach Clark: 

Zach Clark enters the championship with a league-leading time within the 50 free at 18.87 seconds, which qualifies as an NCAA Standard. Clark’s time can also be a Top 10 All-Time Performance this season within the Summit League.  

2025 Championships: At the 2025 Summit League Championships, each the lads’s workforce and girls’s workforce completed in seventh place, with the lads’s workforce accumulating 193 factors, whereas the ladies’s workforce earned 184 factors. Denver University collected each championship trophies. EIU recorded 9 college data and 37 prime ten instances.  

Last Time Out 

Men’s Swimming: 

The males’s workforce has not competed since January thirtieth, once they confronted Southern Illinois in a twin meet. They fell brief to the Salukis 187-56.  Alexander Sadowski was a standout performer, together with a gold medal in the 100 Yard Backstroke with a finals time of fifty:14, which ranks 4th all-time in EIU historical past. Simonas Rimskis confirmed a powerful efficiency within the 50 Yard Freestyle, incomes a silver medal with a time of 21.31. Nolan Wallace continues to earn prime ten finishes, together with a third-place end within the 100 Yard Breaststroke with a time of 57.29, rating ninth all-time in program historical past.  

Women’s Swimming:  

The girls’s workforce competed on February seventh in opposition to the University of Illinois, wherein they dropped the twin meet 157-77. The 200 Yard Medley Relay Squad kicked off the meet with a second-place end with a time of 1:50.61. The relay squad consisted of Jenna Patridge, Genevieve Biberdorf, Sophia Buswell, and Bella Earll. Patridge earned a second-place end within the 200 Yard Backstroke with a time of two:09.74. Earll secured a silver medal within the 100 Yard Freestyle with a time of 54.97. Following intently behind her, Biberdorf earned third place with a time of 57.55. Biberdorf additionally earned a second-place end within the 100 Yard IM with a time of 1:01.67, which ranks sixth quickest in EIU historical past. She now holds the fifth and sixth quickest 100 Yard IM time.  

Each day will probably be reside streamed utilizing the hyperlink above; nevertheless, a paid subscription is required. The outcomes will be obtainable after the conclusion of every day.