Ketterling and Hartmann Win Titles at WIAC Championships; 400 Medley Relay Captures Title with Faculty Report; UWL in Second-Place

Men’s Swimming and Diving | 2/19/2026 9:37:00 PM

WIAC Championships Results

Brown Deer, Wis. –

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse males’s swimming & diving staff is in second-place after the second day of motion on the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships (offered by Culver’s) Thursday night time on the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center.

The Eagles have 276.0 staff factors whereas UW-Eau Claire leads with 286.0. UW-Stevens Point is third with 247.0 adopted by UW-Whitewater fourth with 169.0 and UW-Oshkosh fifth with 12.0. 

UWL received a pair of particular person convention titles and one relay on Thursday. The Eagles’ Jacob Ketterling captured the 200 I.M. (1:49.06) whereas Tyler Hartmann took the 50 freestyle (20.70).

UWL’s 400 medley relay of Coby Zander, Preston Nygaard, Ketterling and Hartmann received the league championship with a college and meet document time of three:17.62. It is UWL’s first 400 medley relay crown since 2014 with Stephen Hanko, Jesse Gambrell, David Flickinger and Jackson Uselman.

Zander, Nygaard, Ketterling and Hartmann broke the varsity document of three:21.25 set by Zach Vinson, Ben Collins, Jonah Elfers and Blake Nelson final season. The Eagles additionally broke the WIAC Championship document of three:17.77 from UW-Stevens Point in 2018.

Nygaard was second (1:49.76) and Caleb Jondle sixth (1:56.03) within the 200 I.M. on Thursday Ketterling’s time of 1:49.06 set a college document, breaking Nygaard’s document of 1:51.21 set in Thursday’s preliminaries. Nygaard broke the earlier document of 1:52.21 by Flickinger in 2014.

Ketterling is the primary swimmer to win the 200 I.M. for UWL since Matt Diehl in 2010.

 

Jesse Hammes completed third (21.02) and Luca Nociti eighth (21.48) in Thursday’s 50 freestyle ultimate. With Hartmann’s first-place end, it marks the third straight season UWL received the title after Nelson captured the crown in 2024 and 2025.

In the five hundred freestyle Thursday, UWL’s Owen Acker positioned third (4:40.50) with Davin Evans seventh (4:48.81). Gavin LaBeau completed eleventh (4:48.57), Nolan Sannito 14th (4:53.28) and Nick Ellerd fifteenth (4:53.37).

Action continues Friday, February 20 with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 6:30 p.m.