Nationwide Report Punctuates Day 4 At GLVC Swim/Dive Championships

EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The 2026 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships stored rolling Friday, with the Greyhounds racking up one other six gold medals, together with 4 on the ladies’s facet. The spotlight got here from UIndy junior Jeremias Pock, who broke the NCAA Division II recird within the males’s 100-yard breaststroke.
 
As a workforce, the UIndy males remained within the driver’s seat within the workforce standings, sustaining 98-point lead over second-place Drury heading into the ultimate day. The Greyhound ladies, in the meantime, sit in second place inside hanging distance of Drury with six occasions remaining.
 
The annual convention meet, which is being held at Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind., concludes Saturday, with prelims at 11 a.m. ET., diving at 1:30 p.m. and finals at 6:30 p.m.
 
FRIDAY
Pock broke off a 51.58 within the 100 breast, not solely setting UIndy and GLVC information but in addition producing the quickest time ever by a DII athlete. The Nuremberg, Germany native gained the race by a second and a half to safe his fifth gold medal of the week.
 
The UIndy ladies amassed eight top-three finishes Friday, together with 4 gold medals. Megan Sunderman earned the primary gold of the day and second of her week, topping the sector within the 1-meter diving occasion. Two days after profitable gold on the 3-meter, Sunderman scored 450.90 factors on the low board to make it a sweep. She was adopted by teammate Abby Sneed, who edged Drury’s Madison Rogers by seven-tenths of a degree to safe silver.
 
UIndy took the highest two spots within the ladies’s 100 fly, with freshman Valentina Masella incomes her first particular person gold with a 54.95—28 hundredths quicker than teammate and silver-medalist Caroline Reinke.
 
Celina Schmidt continued her unbelievable week, topping a number of Greyhounds to win the 100 breast ultimate. She shaved a tenth of a second off her earlier greatest with a time of 1:00.49, securing her third particular person gold of the week and fifth general. Megan Gregory earned the bronze medal within the occasion, adopted by Caprice Schlueter in fifth, Elisa Funes in seventh and Kirabo Namutebi in eighth.
 
Swann Plaza continued his success within the distance races. He gained the 1000 free on Thursday and added 500 gold on Friday, along with his time of 4:18.79 out-pacing second place by only a half second.
 
The night as soon as once more ended with relay finals, this time with the thrilling 200 free relay. The UIndy ladies made it three relay golds in as many nights, with the workforce of Namutebi, Addisyn Newman, Jasmin Hoffmann and Reinke combining for a profitable time of 1:30.88.
 
The males’s relay adopted, with the Hounds taking silver. Anthony, Johann-Matthew Matamoro, Noe and Pock ending with a 1:19.05 to earn a lofty spot on the rostrum.
 
Jokubas Jankauskas led a trio of Hounds within the males’s 100 again ultimate, sharing third with a personal-best 48.14. Hanna Burke additionally took residence the bronze within the 200 fly, and Lillie Arps completed fifth within the 500 free. Zachary Anthony took seventh within the males’s 200 fly, whereas Silas Buessing and Elias Noe went 1-2 within the comfort ultimate.

THURSDAY

The UIndy males rocketed up the standings on day three, turning a 37-point deficit right into a triple-digit lead. The males gained all 5 of their occasions, bookended by gold-medal performances on the 1-meter board and within the 400 free relay.

 

The males’s relay race highlighted the motion as the one file breaker of the night. Following an in depth win by the UIndy ladies’s workforce of Caroline Reinke, Celina Schmidt, Caprice Schlueter and Kirabo Namutebi, the lads’s group—Jokubas Jankauskas, Jeremias Pock, Elias Noe and Zachary Anthony—mixed for a 3:07.90, resetting the highest time in each the UIndy and GLVC file books whereas additionally positioning them because the quickest quartet in DII.

 

Both Schmidt and Pock captured their second particular person gold in as many days, sweeping the 400 IM for the Hounds. The males’s podium was significantly crowded, as Silas Buessing (silver) and Nico Basten (bronze) joined Pock on the prime.

 

Schlueter led a parade of Greyhounds within the ladies’s 100 butterfly. The German rookie took gold with a time of 54.52, with three different Hounds ending within the prime seven and a complete of seven within the prime 14.

 

Elias Noe adopted with a victory within the males’s 100 fly, out-touching McKendree’s Daniel de Oliveira by three hundredths.

 

Freshman Donovan McMahon made a splash in his first convention meet, profitable gold within the 1-meter diving occasion. His 592.65 factors topped teammate and silver medalist Adam Carr, whereas fellow-Greyhounds Randy Balbuena and Eliot Riem positioned fourth and fifth, respectively.

 

Swann Plaza added a bronze medal within the 200 free, whereas Dani Sita positioned fourth within the 100 fly.

 

WEDNESDAY

UIndy crafted quite a few spectacular performances on the day. Junior diver Megan Sunderman bought the ball rolling with a gold-medal efficiency on the 3-meter board. It marked the primary profession convention gold for Sunderman and the eighth within the final 9 years for Hounds within the occasion.

 

Later within the lap pool, Jeremias Pock delivered one of many extra spectacular swims of the night time, setting each college and convention information within the 200 IM. His gold-medal time of 1:43.63 was good for the quickest time in Division II all 12 months.

 

Senior distance standout Swann Plaza additionally wrote his title within the file books. His 1000 free victory yielded a conference-record time of 8:53.72, topping all DII student-athletes this season.

 

On the ladies’s facet, Kirabo Namutebi captured her third consecutive GLVC gold medal within the 50 free. The achieved sprinted touched the wall in 22.20 seconds, resetting the league file and maintaining her title on the prime of the DII ranks.

 

Graduate-student Celina Schmidt added to her adorned profession with a win within the 200 IM, main a quartet of Hounds within the prime 9.

 

Zachary Anthony shared the silver medal within the males’s 50 free with a 19.93, Sydney Alamein and Jan Schmidt positioned fourth of their respective 1000 free races, and Silas Buessing (fifth) and Nico Basten (seventh) racked up important factors within the males’s 200 IM ultimate.

 

The Greyhound capped the fruitful night by sweeping gold within the 200 medley relay. The ladies’s workforce of Valentina Masella, Schmidt, Caprice Schlueter and Namutebi mixed for a profitable time of 1:40.08; whereas the lads’s quartet of Camille Trinquesse, Pock, Elias Noe and Johann-Matthew Matamoro touched first with a 1:25.54.

 

TUESDAY

The 2026 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships bought underway Tuesday night time at Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind. With solely the 800 freestyle relay on the docket, the UIndy secured a pair of medals and a college file within the two occasions.

 

The males’s workforce of Jan Schmidt, Harrison Andoko, Jokubas Jankauskas and Swann Plaza mixed for a time of 6:26.61, resetting this system file by greater than a second whereas additionally netting a bronze medal.  The Greyhounds ladies gained the silver, with the quartet of Valentina Masella, Lillie Arps. Celina Schmidt and Caroline Reinke combining for a 7:26.12. The ladies hit an NCAA B minimize whereas the lads improved their provisional standing.

 

The Greyhound B groups additionally contributed to the trigger. The males’s workforce of Nico Basten, William Pettifer, Camille Trinquesse and Silas Buessing gained their warmth with a 6:37.51, good for the fourth-fastest time of the night. The UIndy ladies’s B workforce of Hanna Burke, Malaika Claudic, Sydney Alamein and Dana Dominguez took the runner-up spot of their preliminary warmth.