UIndy Males End Fourth, Girls Sixth at Swim/Dive Championships

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – UIndy Swimming & Diving punctuated a profitable season Saturday evening, recording a pair of top-six group finishes on the NCAA DII Championships, held on the Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind. The UIndy males secured fourth place among the many nation’s greatest groups, whereas the ladies completed sixth.

The groups mixed for 74 complete All-America nods, eight faculty information and 7 occasion nationwide championships and three Division II information.ond-highest quantity in program historical past for a single DII Championships.

 

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Jeremias Pock authored probably the most spectacular championship meets in NCAA historical past. The Nuremburg, Germany native racked six All-America accolades in six swims this week, together with a single-meet faculty report 4 particular person occasion titles and a fifth natty as a part of the 400 medley relay. He reset three faculty information and a pair of meet information within the course of and likewise swam the quickest 200 breast race in Division II historical past.

 

The latter effort got here in his closing swim of the week. He touched the wall in 1:51.12, outpacing second place by almost three seconds.

 

Pock’s 200 breaststroke nationwide championship was the second occasion title of the evening for the Greyhounds. Swann Plaza received the 1650 free by eight full seconds to seize the crown and notch his fourth All-America First Team recognition of the week.

 

UIndy additionally amassed important factors within the 200 backstroke. After freshman Valentina Masella positioned fifth within the ladies’s championship closing, two males’s group members added to the Greyhounds’ level complete. Silas Buessing received the comfort closing—the fifth and closing such win for the boys’s group—whereas Nico Basten took fifth within the A closing. Buessing set a private better of 1:44.14 this night, and Basten’s prelim time of 1:43.83 put him No. 2 within the UIndy all-time annals.

 

Speaking of this system annals, Celina Schmidt capped a stellar faculty profession with a third-place end within the 200 breast. She led the group with seven All-America nods on the week to up her profession complete to 23—tied for the fourth-highest complete at school historical past.

 

Schmidt got here proper again to assist the ladies’s 400 free relay group end seventh within the week’s closing occasion. She was joined by Kirabo Namutebi, Masella and Jasmin Hoffmann, who mixed for a time of three:21.48.

 

The closing swim got here from the boys’s 400 FR, as Zachary Anthony, Pietro Paciotti, Jan Schmidt and Basten posted the Eleventh-fastest time on the evening, ending only a second again of the school-record tempo (2:54.45).

 

Earlier within the day, junior diver Megan Sunderman put a bow on her season with an 18th-place end within the 1-meter prelims, compiling a rating of 370.60.

  

ALL-AMERICAN HONORABLE MENTION

Ninth- Silas Buessing, males’s 200 again

Eleventh- males’s 400 free relay

FRIDAY

Jeremias Pock‘s national-championship effort within the 100 breast set the meet report 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 just lately 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, inserting 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 general. Lastly, freshman diver Donovan McMahon crafted a profitable 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, inserting eighth within the 100 again with a time of 54.92. She shaved three hundredths off her earlier greatest, bettering on her fifth-fastest time at school historical past.

 

As traditional, 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 evening, with Pock becoming a member of Zachary Anthony, Johann-Matthew Matamoro and Elias Noe. The group received 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 group 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 best way to successful the UIndy males’s group’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 greatest 400 IM swim of the yr positioned him fourth within the grueling occasion.

 

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

 

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 assert Sixteenth place among the many nation’s greatest.

 

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

Sixteenth- Megan Sunderman, 3-meter

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 an announcement 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 general (200 IM, 2025).

 

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

 

Namutebi capped the Hounds’ particular person success along 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 group, 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 nicely, freshman Donovan McMahon earned his approach into the comfort closing 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 group resetting the college report.

In the timed closing, 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 greatest.

The ladies’s group 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 general.