UNI swim & dive opens season internet hosting Purple & Gold Intrasquad

UNI swimming & diving | Purple & Gold Intrasquad

• Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026
• Glen F. Henry Pool
• Cedar Falls, Iowa

 

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — The UNI Swimming and Diving workforce will make its season debut late Saturday morning with its annual Purple and Gold Intrasquad meet, set to start at 11 a.m. CT within the Glen F. Henry Pool on the Wellness-Recreation Center. The occasion is free to attend and open to all followers.

The intrasquad would be the Panthers’ first probability to compete and function a tune-up for the common season, which can get underway when UNI travels to Milwaukee for Marquette’s inaugural house twin on Saturday, Oct. 9.

Prior to the meet, the Panthers will honor nine-time Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) champion Molly Lembezeder with a jersey retirement ceremony. The Dubuque, Iowa native was a three-time First Team All-MVC performer and three-time MVC First Team Scholar-Athlete choice, who additionally set eight program data in her collegiate profession from 2014 to 2018.

Lembezeder joins 5 different Panther legends to obtain a jersey retirement ceremony, becoming a member of Bill Smith (wrestling), AJ Green (males’s basketball), Jacqui Kalin (girls’s basketball), Patty Stockman (softball) and Kurt Warner (soccer). Additional jersey retirements are slated for the approaching weeks.

Northern Iowa is coming off a fifth-place end eventually season’s MVC Championships in Evansville, Indiana. The Panthers return a number of achieved athletes from final yr’s roster, together with reigning MVC Diver of the Year Avery Hogan, who positioned first within the three-meter competitors and second on the one-meter boards on the convention meet, whereas additionally qualifying for the NCAA Zones.

The Panthers additionally return a plethora of extremely expert swimmers, similar to Morgan Raether, the standout sophomore, who obtained an All-MVC Honorable Mention and holds seven top-ten occasions within the UNI document books. Other noteworthy returns embody senior Sam Oeltjen, who holds three spots in this system’s top-ten listing and obtained an All-MVC Honorable Mention, senior Nikki Walters and Abigail Barkhurst, a junior who holds two spots.

In the diving properly, the Northern Iowa returns three key divers alongside Hogan, together with All-MVC Honorable Mention performers Addison Bausman and Trista Thompson. Sophomore Eva Coonrad returns for UNI with the addition of freshman Iowa highschool state champion  Camryn Russell and Francesca Dehl.

UNI additionally provides 5 new faces to this system on the swimming facet in Avery Duerr, Olivia Gustafson, Payton Hultgren, Malea Johnson and Chloe Magnuson.

 

UNI swimming and diving motion will be adopted all season lengthy on social media on Facebook (UNI Swimming and Diving), X (@uniswimdive) and on Instagram (@uniswimdive). Schedules and rosters, together with the newest Panther information and data will be discovered on-line at UNIpanthers.com.