Girls’s Swimming & Diving Group Appears to Repeat at WIAC Championships

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 – The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse girls’s swimming & diving staff is ready to compete within the 2026 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championship (introduced by Culver’s) on the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer, Wisconsin, February 18-21. The 54th version of the ladies’s championship will probably be held along side the 63rd gathering of the lads’s groups.

UWL has gained a conference-leading 22 championships in program historical past after capturing final yr’s title with 1,018.00 factors, the very best whole on the league meet since 2005. UW-Eau Claire positioned second final yr with 855.00 factors as UW-Stevens Point completed third (520.00), UW-Oshkosh fourth (406.00) and UW-Whitewater fifth (332.00).

UW-Eau Claire has gained 21 league titles whereas UW-Stevens Point owns six. Former convention member UW-Madison secured 4 first-place finishes. 

Competition begins on February 18 at 1:45 p.m., with the preliminaries of the lads’s three-meter diving. The finals will begin at 6:30 p.m., and embrace a pair of relay occasions. For competitors held February 19 and February 20, preliminaries will start at 10 a.m., with the finals commencing at 6:30 p.m. The last day on February 21 will characteristic 10 a.m. preliminaries and a 5:45 p.m. begin for the finals. 

 

Medals will probably be awarded to the top-eight finishers in every of the person occasions and the people comprising the top-three relay groups. 

The Eagles return two people successful a person occasion on the WIAC Championships, together with Joanne Banaszak successful the one-meter title in 2025 and three-meter crowns in 2024 and 2025. She was chosen the 2024 and 2025 WIAC Diver of the Meet. Zoey Rank captured the 200 I.M. final season and named the WIAC Newcomer of the Year.

Libby Cleveland has been a member of 5 convention successful relays whereas Rank and Paige Rundahl are two-time relay champions. Cleveland was on the first-place 200 freestyle relay and 200 medley relay in 2024 and 2025 and the 400 medley relay final season.   

Rank gained the title within the 200 and 400 medley relays a yr in the past whereas Rundahl was on the first-place 200 freestyle relay in 2024 and 400 freestyle relay in 2023.

The Eagles’ Ava Pulvermacher was a member of the first-place 200 freestyle relay final season whereas Reilly Eiynck was on the first-place 400 freestyle relay in 2023.

Steve Mohs is in his seventh season as UWL’s head coach in 2025-26. The males’s squad completed second on the 2025 WIAC Championships, successful two particular person and three relay crowns. The Eagles have been third on the 2022, 2023 and 2024 league championships underneath Mohs and positioned fourth in 2020. The 2021 WIAC Championships have been canceled as a result of COVID-19 public well being menace.

The Eagles’ girls’s squad has gained three (2020; 2022; 2025) WIAC titles underneath Mohs. UWL gained six particular person titles on the 2025 championships and three relays as Mohs was named the WIAC Coach of the Year. The Eagles captured the 2022 title with 5 particular person and three relays titles with Mohs incomes the league’s coach of the yr award. He was chosen the WIAC Coach of the Year in his first season at UWL in 2019-20 because the staff captured the convention title with six particular person and three relay first-place finishes.

UWL positioned second on the 2023 and 2024 WIAC Championships underneath Mohs. 

Jack Englehardt is in his third yr as UWL’s assistant swimming & diving coach and recruiting coordinator in 2025-26. He got here to UWL after serving as head males’s swimming coach at Madison (Wis.) West High School from 2019-23, main the staff to a third-place end on the 2021 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) State Championships. Named the 2020-21 Big Eight Conference Co-Coach of the Year, Englehardt additionally served because the assistant girls’s coach at Madison West in 2021-22. He gained 15 WIAC titles (4 particular person; 11 relay) at UW-Stevens Point.

Jeremiah Jackson is in his seventh season as UWL’s diving coach in 2024-25. Prior to arriving at UWL, Jackson was the pinnacle diving coach at Saint Mary’s University (Minn.) from 2005-19. He served because the girls and boys coach at Winona (Minn.) High School for 20 years.

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Central Diving Regional is ready for February 27-28 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The NCAA Division III Swimming & Diving Championships are scheduled for March 18-21 in Indianapolis, Indiana.