Mountaineers Put up A number of Prime-10 Program Occasions at Big 12 Championships

GREENSBORO, N.C. – The West Virginia University males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving workforce completed competitors on the third day of the 2026 Big 12 Swimming and Diving Championships on Thursday on the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Sophomore Joey Stebbins posted the sixth-fastest time (3:50.39) in program historical past on his strategy to a second place end within the B remaining of the lads’s 400-yard particular person medley. In the ladies’s 400 IM, sophomore MJ Gilligan positioned fifth within the B remaining with a remaining time of 4:21.40.

In the ultimate particular person occasion of the evening, redshirt junior Christian Simpson received the C remaining, as he recorded the second-fastest time in program historical past within the C remaining of the lads’s 200-yard freestyle (1:35.37).

In the diving effectively, sophomore Levi Hellmann adopted up his efficiency on Wednesday evening with a third-place end within the B remaining of the lads’s 1-meter (305.60).

During prelims, senior Jamin Harlan and freshman Felix Vicknair every recorded a top-10 time within the males’s 100-yard butterfly. Harlan ranks seventh all-time (47.35), and Vicknair ranks ninth (47.52) in program historical past.

Meet Schedule
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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