Pock Stays Dominant As Swim/Dive Championships Close to Conclusion

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The penultimate day on the 2026 NCAA DII Swimming & Diving Championships is within the books, with UIndy racking up a lot of spectacular accolades. Junior Jeremias Pock highlighted the night time together with his third particular person nationwide championship, successful the boys’s 100 breaststroke in record-breaking vogue.
 
The UIndy males are in a primary spot heading into the ultimate day, sitting simply six factors behind third-place Colorado Mesa. The Greyhounds ladies are presently in fifth place however inside hanging distance of third. See under for the present standings (high six solely).
 
CURRENT STANDINGS

Held on the Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind., the meet concludes Saturday with morning prelims at 11 a.m. ET, adopted by diving at 2 p.m. and night finals at 6:30 p.m.

Pock’s stellar effort within the 100 breast set the meet file with a time 51.59. He got here a mere .01 seconds shy of matching the Division II mark within the occasion—one he himself set not too long ago on the GLVC Championships.

 

The Greyhounds mixed for 3 extra top-four finishes in particular person occasions. Distance dynamo Swann Plaza continued to rack up factors, putting third within the 500 free to match his earlier end within the 1000. Celina Schmidt shared third place within the 100 breast—good for her team-high sixth All-America nod total. Lastly, freshman diver Donovan McMahon crafted a successsul Nationals debut with a fourth-place efficiency on the 3-meter board.

 

Freshman Valentina Masella added one other All-America First Team honor to pile, putting eighth within the 100 again with a time of 54.92. She shaved three hundredths off her earlier finest, bettering on her fifth-fastest time at school historical past.

 

As ordinary, the relays punctuated the night’s festivities. The squad of Kirabo Namutebi, Addisyn Newman, Jasmin Hoffmann and Caroline Reinke secured runner-up standing within the ladies’s 200 free relay. Their mixed time of 1:30.43 was only a Tenth of a second behind the school-record tempo.

 

The males’s 200 free relay capped the night time, with Pock becoming a member of Zachary Anthony, Johann-Matthew Matamoro and Elias Noe. The crew gained warmth 2 with a time of 1:18.35 to finally earn fourth place.

 

ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION 

Ninth- Jan Schmidt, males’s 500 free

Eleventh- Camille Trinquesse, males’s 100 again

14th- Elisa Funes, ladies’s 100 breast

Sixteenth- Caroline Reinke, ladies’s 100 again

THURSDAY

The relay crew of Camille Trinquesse, Pock, Elias Noe and Zachary Anthony made historical past Thursday night. With a time of three:06.12, the quartet swam the quickest 400 medley relay in Division II historical past. They held off GLVC-rival Drury by simply .38 seconds on the way in which to successful the UIndy males’s crew’s first nationwide title within the occasion.

 

Earlier within the night, Pock claimed his second particular person occasion championship in as many days, successful the 400 IM with a time of three:42.95. Teammate Nico Basten joined him on the rostrum after his finest 400 IM swim of the 12 months positioned him fourth within the grueling occasion.

 

Celina Schmidt earned runner-up standing within the ladies’s 400 IM, together with her 4:16.20 representing a private finest. A Greyhound has now completed first or second within the ladies’s 400 IM in 5 of the final six 12 months.

 

The Greyhounds additionally mixed to win three comfort finals on the night, together with a very memorable 100 fly swim by Noe. The junior out of Holbaek, Denmark crushed the sector by posting the primary sub-46 time in program historical past within the occasion (45.43).

 

Junior diver Megan Sunderman earned her third straight All-America Honorable Mention nod on the 3-meter board. She certified for the finals and racked up 382.55 to say Sixteenth place among the many nation’s finest.

 

ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION 

Ninth- Silas Buessing, males’s 400 IM

Ninth- Jan Schmidt, males’s 200 free

Eleventh- Swann Plaza, males’s 200 free

WEDNESDAY

After Swann Plaza (third) and Jan Schmidt (eighth) set the tone with a pair of All-America swims within the males’s 1000, Jeremias Pock adopted with a press release swim within the 200 IM. The recently-crown GLVC Men’s Swimmer of the Year out-paced the sector by two seconds with a school-record time of 1:42.39. It marked his first profession nationwide championship within the occasion and second total (200 IM, 2025).

 

Celina Schmidt additionally scored large factors within the 200 IM, putting third on the ladies’s facet. Her time of 1:59.42 set a brand new collegiate finest.

 

Namutebi capped the Hounds’ particular person success together with her second 50 free nationwide title within the final three years. The junior touched the wall in 22.10, besting Nova Southeastern’s Kristina Orban by 1 / 4 of the second.

 

UIndy’s 200 medley relay groups each earned spots within the high 5. Namutebi returned to the pool to anchor the ladies’s crew, becoming a member of Caroline Reinke, Schmidt, Caprice Schlueter in a fourth-place efficiency (1:38.96). Camille Trinquesse, Pock, Elias Noe and Johann-Matthew Matamoro mixed for a fifth-place time of 1:24.97.

In the diving properly, freshman Donovan McMahon earned his approach into the comfort ultimate of the 1-meter occasion. He compiled a rating of 441.30 level to safe Eleventh place and All-America Honorable Mention honors in his Nationals debut.

  

ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION

Tenth- Nico Basten, males’s 200 IM

Eleventh- Valentina Masella, ladies’s 200 IM

Fifteenth- Silas Buessing, males’s 200 IM

Sixteenth- Jasmin Hoffmann, ladies’s 50 free

TUESDAY

With simply two occasions being held on day one, the Greyhounds earned All-America honors in each the boys’s and ladies’s 800 free relays, with the boys’s crew resetting the college file.

In the timed ultimate, the UIndy males’s quartet of Jan Schmidt, Harrison Andoko, Nico Basten and Swann Plaza snapped the college mark with a time of 6:21.74, good for fourth place among the many nation’s finest.

The ladies’s crew of Valentina Masella, Hanna Burke, Caroline Reinke and Lillie Arps earned All-America Honorable Mention accolades with a time of seven:25.23, taking second in warmth 2 and Tenth total.