Relay Document Highlights First Day of MVC Swimming Championships

The Valpo males’s swimming crew broke this system file within the 200 free relay Wednesday night, highlighting the opening day of competitors for the Beacon women and men on the 2026 MVC Championships in Evansville, Ind.
 
How It Happened

• The Beacon males kicked off the night session with a file swim of 1:23.24 within the 200 free relay from Luke Snider (Germantown, Tenn./Memphis University School), Isaac Dinari (Houston, Texas/Memorial), Ben Mettler (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) and Anthony Martin (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett). Valpo surpassed the earlier file by 15-hundredths of a second, whereas Snider’s leadoff leg of 21.04 improved upon his sixth-fastest time in program historical past within the 50 free.
• The girls had been simply two-hundredths of a second from their college file in the identical occasion, as Una Dizdarevic (Bloomingdale, Ill./Lake Park), Bri Keese (Brighton, Colo./Brighton), Faith Bargwell (Grand Rapids, Mich./Rockford) and Audrey Morgan (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) lined the space in 1:35.55.
• Valpo had 5 swimmers qualify for particular person occasion finals Wednesday, together with 4 on the lads’s facet — two of which got here within the 200 IM. Jackson Oostman (Aurora, Ill./Marmion Academy) posted a time of 1:51.86 within the finals to position 21^st, whereas Gabe Vasquez (Houston, Texas/Memorial) — whose prelim time of 1:52.53 moved him as much as second in program historical past within the occasion — completed 23^rd with a time of 1:52.75.
• Dinari touched the wall in 21.14 within the finals of the 50 free to complete in 23^rd place, whereas Gabriel Corkran (Avondale Estates, Ga./Druid Hills) completed 24^th within the 500 free, swimming a finals time of 4:36.25 after qualifying with a prelim time of 4:34.45.
• On the ladies’s facet, Morgan claimed 21^st place within the 500 free. She certified for the finals with a prelim time of 5:07.53, and shaved practically three seconds off that mark with a finals time of 5:04.65 — setting her PR by 1.38 seconds and shifting as much as third place in program historical past within the occasion.
• Majo Suarez de la Fuente (Mexico City, Mexico/ITESM Preparatoria Tec Campus Santa Fe [Bethel]) improved upon her seventh-fastest time in program historical past within the 200 IM with a prelim swim of two:12.47, whereas Keese had a time-trial swim of 27.02 within the 50 fly to maneuver into ninth all-time at Valpo in that occasion. Keese additionally was the quickest Beacon within the prelims of the 50 free, protecting it in 24.16.
• The Beacons ended the night time with one other pair of sturdy relay swims. Sophie Schoch (Medina, Ohio/Medina), Natalie Eaton (Tulsa, Okla./Jenks), Kailyn Benoit (Sussex, Wis./Hamilton) and Morgan mixed to file a time of three:53.98 within the 400 medley relay, bettering upon their third-best time in program historical past, whereas Schoch’s 100 again leadoff leg of 58.16 moved her as much as third all-time at Valpo in that occasion.
• The males’s 400 medley relay quartet of Caleb Smesko (Green, Ohio/Walsh Jesuit), Carson Parker (Silver Lake, Ind./Tippecanoe Valley), Asa Sadowsky (Green Bay, Wis./Bay Port [Milwaukee]) and Martin swam the second-fastest 400 medley relay in program historical past with a time of three:21.55.
• The Valpo males sit in eighth place after the primary day of competitors with 99 factors, whereas the ladies are in ninth place with 84 factors.

 
Next Up
Valpo continues the 2026 MVC Championships on Thursday with the second of 4 days of motion. Prelims begin at 10:30 a.m. and finals at 5:30 p.m.