Males’s Swimming & Diving Crew Goals for WIAC Title; Motion Begins Wednesday

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 – The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse males’s swimming & diving workforce is ready to compete within the 2026 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championship (offered by Culver’s) on the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, February 18-21. The 63rd version of the lads’s championship will likely be held together with the gathering of the 54th gathering of the ladies’s groups.

UWL’s males’s squad has received 4 convention titles in program historical past and positioned second on seven completely different events since 2010.

UW-Eau Claire captured the WIAC championship final season with 848.50 factors. UWL positioned second with 752.00 factors adopted by UW-Stevens Point third (710.00), UW-Whitewater fourth (487.50) and UW-Oshkosh fifth (282.00). 

UW-Eau Claire leads the convention with 27 titles whereas UW-Stevens Point is second with 26. UWL has received 4 league crowns. Former packages to win titles embrace: UW-Platteville (4) and UW-Milwaukee (1). 

Competition begins on February 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 February 19 and February 20, preliminaries will start at 10 a.m., with the finals commencing at 6:30 p.m. The last day on February 21 will function 10 a.m. preliminaries and a 5:45 p.m. begin for the finals. 

 

Medals will likely be awarded to the top-eight finishers in every of the person occasions and the people comprising the top-three relay groups.

UWL’s Jacob Ketterling captured the 100 butterfly on the 2024 league meet. Four simmers return after being a member of first-place WIAC relays. Ketterling was on the successful 400 freestyle relay in 2024 with Tyler Hartmann a member of the first-place 200 freestyle relay in 2024. Last season, Jonah Elfers, Jesse Hammes and Hartmann have been on the Eagles’ first-place medley relay whereas Hammes and Hartmann received WIAC titles within the 200 and 400 freestyle relay.

Steve Mohs is in his seventh season as UWL’s head coach in 2025-26. The males’s squad completed second on the 2025 WIAC Championships, successful two particular person and three relay crowns. The Eagles have been third on the 2022, 2023 and 2024 league championships below Mohs and positioned fourth in 2020. The 2021 WIAC Championships have been canceled as a result of COVID-19 public well being risk.

The Eagles’ girls’s squad has received three (2020; 2022; 2025) WIAC titles below Mohs. UWL received six particular person titles on the 2025 championships and three relays as Mohs was named the WIAC Coach of the Year. The Eagles captured the 2022 title with 5 particular person and three relays titles with Mohs incomes the league’s coach of the yr award. He was chosen the WIAC Coach of the Year in his first season at UWL in 2019-20 because the workforce captured the convention title with six particular person and three relay first-place finishes.

UWL positioned second on the 2023 and 2024 WIAC Championships below Mohs. 

Jack Englehardt is in his third yr as UWL’s assistant swimming & diving coach and recruiting coordinator in 2025-26. He got here to UWL after serving as head males’s swimming coach at Madison (Wis.) West High School from 2019-23, main the workforce to a third-place end on the 2021 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) State Championships. Named the 2020-21 Big Eight Conference Co-Coach of the Year, Englehardt additionally served because the assistant girls’s coach at Madison West in 2021-22. He received 15 WIAC titles (4 particular person; 11 relay) at UW-Stevens Point.

Jeremiah Jackson is in his seventh season as UWL’s diving coach in 2024-25. Prior to arriving at UWL, Jackson was the pinnacle diving coach at Saint Mary’s University (Minn.) from 2005-19. He served because the girls and boys coach at Winona (Minn.) High School for 20 years.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Central Diving Regional is ready for February 27-28 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships are scheduled for March 18-21 in Indianapolis, Indiana.