Wolverines end 18th at NCAA Championships

INDIANAPOLIS — The Grove City College males’s swimming and diving staff’s quartet of nationwide qualifiers concluded the staff’s participation within the 2026 NCAA Division III Championships by competing within the 400 free relay Saturday on the Indiana University Natatorium. 

Senior Caleb Einolf (Quakertown, Pa./Quakertown), junior Owen Hancock (Brunswick, Ohio/Westside Christian), freshman George Witte (Columbia, S.C./Covenant Classical Christian) and junior Bryce Pope (Wilmington, Del./Delaware Valley Classical) earned twentieth within the preliminaries of the 400 free relay Saturday morning by combining for a time of three minutes, 1.47 seconds. 

All 4 males earned a number of All-America honors through the four-day meet, which began Wednesday. The quartet earned All-America within the 400 medley relay by taking fifteenth place Wednesday night time with a time of three:17.15, then completed eleventh within the 200 medley relay Friday with a time of 1:28.24.

Hancock earned his first particular person All-America quotation by inserting sixth within the 100 butterfly with a time of 47.79 seconds Thursday. Einolf additionally achieved All-America within the 100 fly by profitable the comfort ultimate in 47.63 seconds, good for ninth place. Einolf captured All-America within the 100 breaststroke Friday night time with an eighth-place particular person end (53.88). 

Einolf concluded his profession as a six-time NCAA Division III All-American. He earned All-America within the 100 fly and 100 breaststroke as a junior.

Grove City completed 18th within the staff standings with 53 factors. That is the best end for the Wolverines on the nationwide championships since 2009, when Grove City completed sixth. This yr’s end marked the thirteenth time in program historical past that Grove City has completed within the high 20 on the NCAA Division III or College Division Championships.