Swim and Dive End Second at Northwestern

EVANSTON, Ill. — The Miami University swimming and diving staff hit the street to begin the 2025-2026 season at Northwestern University on Saturday Oct. 11, 2025. The RedHawks girls completed second of three groups, as they defeated SIU 174-120 and dropped to Northwestern 224-76. The males have been second of three groups with a 200-99 victory over SIU and a 203-97 loss to Northwestern.

How it Happened:

• The RedHawks first meet of the 2025-2026 season kicked off with the ladies’s 200-yard medley the place the ladies’s A staff completed fourth. Ella Ziegert, Natalie Gilson, Gracie Gregory and Julie Waechter turned in a mixed time of 1:42.35.
• The males’s 200-yard medley adopted the place the A staff completed fourth as nicely. Jensen Nelson, Ian Wihebrink, Duncan Salmen and Tegan Barrier posted a mixed time of 1:27.87.
• Casey Stephens completed third within the girls’s 600-yard freestyle, incomes a time of 6:00.62. Sarah Pophal completed fourth with a time of 6:00.65.
• The males’s 600-yard freestyle was subsequent, the place Luke Pugh was second, delivering a time of 5:30.47.
• After that got here the ladies’s 200-yard freestyle, the place Chrisna Bezuidenhout completed fifth, recording a time of 1:52.06.
• Next got here the lads’s 200-yard freestyle. Allen Cotton got here in sixth with a time of 1:39.02
• The girls’s 100-yard backstroke was subsequent, the place Ziegert was fourth, placing up a time of 54.89.
• Nelson completed second within the males’s 100-yard backstroke, delivering a time of 48.09.
• After that was the ladies’s 100-yard breaststroke. Madison Watschke got here in fifth incomes a time of 1:03.31.
• The males’s 100-yard breaststroke adopted, the place Pablo Silva turned in a time of 55.09.
• Gregory completed third within the girls’s 200-yard butterfly, placing up a time of two:04.10
• Up subsequent was the lads’s 200-yard butterfly, the place Owen Hoban was first, incomes a time of 1:47.44.
• After that was the ladies’s 50-yard freestyle the place Gilson completed fourth, delivering a time of 23.41.
• The males’s 50-yard freestyle was subsequent, the place Salmen completed second, clocking a time of 20.23. Barrier was proper behind him with a time of 20.25. Ian Rodrigues-Kmiliauski was fourth posting a time of 20.34.
• Jenna Halliday completed sixth within the girls’s 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.14.
• Rodrigues-Kmiliauski was fourth within the males’s 100-yard freestyle placing up a time of 44.67.
• Next was the ladies’s 200-yard backstroke the place Bezuidenhout completed first, posting a time of 1:56.49
• The males’s 200-yard backstroke adopted, the place Nelson was third, delivering a time of 1:46.73.
• After that was the ladies’s 200-yard breaststroke, the place Watschke completed third with a time of two:15.28.
• Silva and Hoban completed first and second within the males’s 200-yard breaststroke, posting instances of 1:59.22 and a pair of:02.45 respectively.
• The girls’s 300-yard freestyle was subsequent, the place Gregory completed fourth, delivering a time of two:55.17.
• The males’s 300-yard freestyle adopted, the place Hendrik Bechtel completed third with a time of two:38.07. Bryce Menchhofer was fourth, incomes a time of two:39.05.
• Next was the ladies’s 100-yard butterfly . Ziegert was third, posting a time of 55.40.
• Salmen completed second within the males’s 100-yard butterfly incomes a time of 48.11.
• The girls’s 200-yard IM was subsequent the place Watschke completed third, posting a time of two:04.72.
• Hoban completed first within the males’s 200-yard IM with a time of 1:48.80. Michal Piela was third, delivering a time of 1:49.31.
• The girls’s 400-yard freestyle relay was subsequent, the place the ladies’s A staff completed third. Ziegert, Waechter, Halliday and Gilson turned in a mixed time of three:24.97.
• Swimming occasions concluded with the lads’s 400-yard freestyle, the place the lads’s A staff completed third. Rodrigues-Kmiliauski, Cotton, Salmen and Barrier posted a mixed time of two:57.81.
• For diving occasions, Sydney Rice earned a primary place end within the girls’s 1M dive with a rating of 253.60
• The males’s 1M dive was subsequent the place Paul Hong posted a rating of 273.00, which was good for third place.
• Mia Meinhardt earned a sixth place end within the girls’s 3M dive with a rating of 236.80.
• Noam Kulbak was fourth within the males’s 3M dive, scoring 314.90.

UP NEXT: The RedHawks swimming and diving staff will hit the street and head to Cincinnati to tackle the University of Cincinnati, Oct. 17. Diving occasions begin at 12:30 p.m. whereas swimming occasions start later at 3 p.m.