Hellmann Locations Fourth to Lead Mountaineers at Big 12 Championships

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Sophomore Levi Hellmann positioned fourth on 3-meter to steer the Mountaineers on the second night time of the 2026 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships on the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina.
 
This marked the best end in any occasion for Hellmann as he narrowly missed out on a third-place end with 367.90 complete factors. TCU’s David Ekdahl positioned third with 374.70 factors.

Despite no swimmers within the A last, the Mountaineers achieved a number of milestones. In the C last of the lads’s 200-yard particular person medley, sophomore Joey Stebbins swam the sixth-fastest time in program historical past (1:46.62) to put second within the warmth.
 
Redshirt junior Christian Simpson completed third with the eighth-fastest time in program historical past (1:47.30).
 
During prelims within the morning, freshman Jake Salcedo moved up the leaderboard within the males’s 500-yard freestyle. He now holds the third-fastest time in program historical past after swimming a 4:22.95. He would go on to put eighth within the B last.
 
Freshman Baylee Sloan additionally posted a top-10 program time throughout prelims. She recorded a 2:02.67 within the girls’s 200-yard IM for the ten^th-fastest time in program historical past.
 
Meet Schedule
Thursday, Feb. 26

• 10 a.m. – Prelims
• 5:15 p.m. – Men’s 1-meter diving
• 6 p.m. – Finals

  • 100 butterfly
  • 400 IM
  • 200 freestyle
  • Women’s 3-meter diving
  • 4×100 medley relay

 Friday, Feb. 27

• 10 a.m. – Prelims
• 6 p.m. – Finals

  • 200 butterfly
  • 100 breaststroke
  • 100 backstroke
  • Men’s platform diving
  • 200 freestyle relay

 Saturday, Feb. 28

• 10 a.m. – Prelims
• 6 p.m. – Finals

  • 200 backstroke
  • 100 freestyle
  • 1650 freestyle
  • 200 breaststroke
  • Women’s platform diving
  • 400 freestyle relay

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