Season concludes at NCAA championships – The Badger Herald

Both the men’s and women’s swim and dive groups competed at their respective NCAA Championship meets in Atlanta, Georgia on the finish of March. The girls’s crew completed in thirteenth place, scoring 70.5 factors, whereas the lads’s crew completed in thirty second place, scoring 19 factors. Between the groups, there have been 3 faculty information damaged and 10 All-American performances.

The University of Virginia won the ladies’s meet, extending their file of 6 straight championship wins. Defending champions, the University of Texas, received the lads’s meet.

This yr was the primary of the new structure for the championship meet, by which the NCAA eradicated “B” and “C” finals, and as a substitute solely superior the highest eight, or the “A” ultimate, to the afternoon part for a second swim. They additionally modified the order of occasions, shifting occasions to totally different days than prior to now. Along with this, the group of diving was restructured, with a break between the 6 rounds with swimming occasions in between, permitting the divers to heat up once more for the second half of the rounds. 

Women’s crew

The girls’s nationwide championship meet was held from March 18-21. Behind excellent swims from sophomore Maggie Wanezek, the Badgers powered via to a high 15 end. Wanezek completed in second place within the 100 and 200 meter backstroke, and 18th within the 200 meter freestyle, incomes the Badgers 33.5 factors from her alone. She acquired two First Team All-American honors, enhancing tremendously from her singular Honorable Mention All-American from her thirteenth place end within the 200 meter backstroke in 2025.

Two different girl Badgers earned particular person All-American honors of their NCAA Championship debut, receiving honorable mentions. Freshman Brooke Corrigan completed in sixteenth within the 200 meter breaststroke and redshirt freshman Lucie Delmas completed eleventh within the 200 meter butterfly, the place she additionally set a brand new faculty file at 1:53.89. Corrigan additionally completed twenty third within the 100 meter breaststroke and Delmas completed thirty seventh within the 200 meter breaststroke as nicely.

Seniors Abby Wanezek, Hazal Ozkan and Blair Stoneburg accomplished their school careers at this meet. Wanezek completed thirty seventh within the 100 meter freestyle and thirty ninth within the 200 meter freestyle, and swam in all 5 relays. Ozkan completed thirty eighth within the 100 meter breaststroke, twentieth within the 200 meter breaststroke and twenty eighth within the 200 meter particular person medley. Stoneburg completed thirty fourth within the 200 meter freestyle and twenty fourth within the 500 meter freestyle, and swam on 3 relays.

Other particular person swims got here from sophomore Stella Chapman and juniors Hailey Tierney and Maggie Waggoner. Chapman competed in each the 200 and 400 meter particular person medleys, ending twenty sixth and twenty ninth, in addition to the 200 meter breaststroke, the place she completed thirty sixth. Tierney completed fortieth within the 50 meter freestyle, and Waggoner completed thirty fourth within the 1650 freestyle (the mile) and forty first within the 400 meter particular person medley.

All however one relay completed within the high 15, scoring significant factors for the crew, and incomes Honorable Mention All-American honors. One of the best inserting relay, coming in twelfth place, was the 400 meter medley relay crew of Maggie Wanezek (backstroke), Corrigan (breaststroke), Delmas (butterfly) and Abby Wanezek (freestyle). The 200 meter medley relay additionally completed in twelfth, from Maggie Wanezek (backstroke), Corrigan (breaststroke), Tierney (butterfly) and Abby Wanezek (freestyle). 

The 800 meter freestyle crew of Abby Wanezek, Maggie Wanezek, junior Izzy Enz and Stoneburg additionally had a superb exhibiting, ending 14th, as did the 200 meter freestyle relay of Tierney, Abby Wanezek, Maggie Wanezek and Stoneburg, who completed fifteenth. Lastly, the crew of Abby Wanezek, Stoneburg, Tierney and freshman Andrea Dworak completed twenty third within the 400 meter freestyle relay.

The Badgers showcased their nice depth, having no less than one athlete in each occasion, moreover diving and the 100 meter butterfly.

There was one NCAA file set on this meet, within the 400 meter freestyle relay by the University of Virginia crew of Claire Curzan, Madi Mintenko, Anna Moesch and Sara Curtis.

Men’s crew

The males’s nationwide championship meet was held from March 25-28, per week after the ladies’s meet. The Badgers completed in thirty second place, and broke a number of faculty information alongside the way in which. The solely particular person All-American recognition got here from senior Dominik Mark Torok from his sixteenth place end within the 400 meter particular person medley, incomes an honorable point out. Torok additionally completed 18th within the 200 meter butterfly and twenty fourth within the 200 meter breaststroke.

Seniors Charlie Jones, Cooper Scharff and Torok, together with redshirt senior Ben Wiegand, had their final swims as a Badger at this meet. Jones swam butterfly on each medley relays, whereas Scharff swam freestyle on the 200 meter medley relay, in addition to on the 200 meter freestyle relay. Wiegand competed within the 100 meter breaststroke, ending seventeenth, and swam the breaststroke leg on each medley relays and was a member of the 200 freestyle relay as nicely.

The Badgers highlighted their power in distance swimming at this meet, with a number of particular person qualifiers within the 200 and 500 meter freestyles, in addition to a high 10 end within the 800 meter freestyle relay. 

Freshman Enzo Solitario had a robust NCAA debut, ending twenty second within the 200 meter freestyle, thirty fourth within the 500 meter freestyle and nineteenth within the 200 meter butterfly. Sophomore Yoav Romano additionally competed within the 200 and 500 meter freestyles, ending thirty second and thirtieth, respectively. Junior Luukas Vainio additionally accompanied Romano and Solitario within the 200 meter freestyle and completed in thirty third.

The 800 meter freestyle relay featured these three swimmers (Romano, Solitario, Vanio), in addition to Torok. This crew placed on an unbelievable efficiency, making the ultimate and ending in ninth place incomes them Honorable Mention All-American honors, in addition to setting a brand new faculty file of 6:08.72. 

Another Badger relay set a faculty file at this meet within the 400 meter medley relay. The crew of junior Nathan Welker (backstroke), Wiegand (breaststroke), Jones (butterfly) and Vainio (freestyle) completed in twenty second place with a time of three:05.03.

The 200 meter medley relay of Welker (backstroke), Wiegand (breaststroke), Jones (butterfly) and Scharff (freestyle) completed in twenty sixth place, and the 200 meter freestyle relay of Wiegand, Scharff, freshman Drew Gaerthofner and Vainio completed in thirty first place.

There had been 5 NCAA information set at this meet, 4 particular person. Hubert Kós from the University of Texas set new information in each the 100 and 200 meter backstroke. Ahmed Jaouadi set the file within the 1650 meter freestyle (the mile) and Josh Liendo set it within the 100 meter butterfly, each from the University of Florida. Lastly, the Arizona State University crew of Remi Fabiani, Adam Chaney, Ilya Kharun and Jonny Kulow set a brand new file within the 200 meter freestyle relay.

Both the lads’s and ladies’s groups had a superb exhibiting on the meet, with many spectacular swims. Many of the highest finishes got here from underclassmen, exhibiting an awesome outlook for the way forward for the crew. Specifically, Maggie Wanezek’s breakout season and podium finishes has introduced followers pleasure for her subsequent couple years as a Badger.