EVANSVILLE, Ind.—The 2023 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships continued Thursday, with the University of Indianapolis combining to win four of the evening's nine events. The Greyhounds remained in first place in the women's team standings, while the men moved up one spot to second.
 
The annual conference meet, which is being held at Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind., continues Friday morning with prelims starting at 11 a.m. ET. The event started Tuesday evening and will run through Saturday.
 
THURSDAY
Several milestones were hit on the third day of the meet, but the brightest star for the Hounds was Mika Heideyer. The Fort-de-France, Martinique native captured two event titles, winning the 100 butterfly and the 200 free in a span of about 70 minutes.
 
Her 100 fly time of 54.57 matched the school record set by current teammate Johanna Buys last year, while her 200 free mark of 1:48.42 set a new meet record.
 
The aforementioned Buys secured silver in the 100 fly, while Julia Magierowska (4th), Caroline Reinke (6th) and Andrea Paaske (7th) made it five Hounds in the top eight.
 
Cedric Buessing also broke a GLVC record with his gold-medal swim in the 400 IM. The sophomore from Germany earned his second consecutive conference title in the event, touching in 3:46.16.
 

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A #GLVCswim & Dive #GLVCchamps record falls again, this time at the hands of @UIndyAthletics' Cedric Buessing in the Men's 400 IM! pic.twitter.com/716AHCMVkO

— GLVC Sports Network (@GLVCSN) February 10, 2023

Senior Jeron Thompson took the silver in the men's 100 fly. His 46.29 snapped the school record while also hitting an automatic qualifying time.
 
UIndy tallied two more medals on the diving boards, with Cade Hammond grabbing the gold and Jason Lenzo the bronze on the 3-meter. Hammond put up an impressive score of 614.25, good for both school and conference records.
 
Once again, the night finished with relay races, with both UIndy teams earning silver in the 400 MR. Kaitlyn McCoy, Celina Schmidt, Julia Magierowska and Johanna Buys combined forces for a time of 3:41.04 – just .17 back of first – while Bartek Swiderski, Liki Prema, Kael Yorke and Diego Mas fell less than a second shy of gold at 3:10.43.
 
OTHER NOTABLES
2nd- Kaitlyn McCoy, 400 IM
4th- Kael Yorke, 100 fly
6th- Andrea Gomez, 400 IM
8th- Brynhildur Traustadottir, 200 free
9th- Serge Ahadzhanian, 200 free*
UIndy won both B finals in the 400 medley relay
_{* won the B final; fourth-fastest time in school history}
 
WEDNESDAY
Diego Mas claimed the 50-free crown, out-sprinting the league's fastest swimmers with a lightning-quick time of 19.60 to edge McKendree-speedster Gregg Lichinsky by just .03 seconds. The mark set a new GLVC record and matched his own program best – one he set back at the House of Champions meet in November – while also giving the Greyhounds their first gold in the high-profile event since 2014.
 

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— Great Lakes Valley Conference (@GLVCsports) February 9, 2023

 
Johanna Buys made it back-to-back conference titles in the women's 50 free, touching a 22.71. Right behind was teammate Leticia Vaselli, whose season-best 23.15 was good for runner-up.
 
UIndy also went 1-2 in the 1000 free, highlighted by sophomore Cedric Buessing's continued success on the league's biggest stage. The reigning GLVC Men's Swimmer of the Year earned his second straight gold in the event with a school-record and NCAA-A-cut time of 9:01.69. Teammate Christian Hedeen secured silver with a 9:11.87, improving both his personal best and B-cut times.
 
Though the gold went to McKendree, the Greyhounds scored big points in the women's 1000. UIndy claimed second through fifth place, including a silver-medal swim from Emilia Colti-Dumitrescu and a bronze from Karolina Dubcakova, to amass a whopping 106 team points.
 
Kaitlyn McCoy repeated as the women's 200 IM champ. The 2021 national runner-up in the event, McCoy outpaced a trio of Drury Panthers with a winning time of 2:00.01.
 
Meanwhile on the boards, the Hounds started the diving events by nabbing two more medals. Mikaela Starr and Alexis Lumaj earned gold and silver, respectively, on the 1-meter. It marked the second career GLVC title for Starr, who also won gold two years ago on the 3-meter board.
 
The Greyhounds' capped the night with a pair of podium finishes in the always-exciting 200 medley relay. Julia Magierowska, Celina Schmidt, Mika Heideyer and Vaselli combined for a gold-medal time of 1:41.52, out-touching Drury by nine-tenths of a second. In the final race of the evening, Jeron Thompson, Liki Prema, Serge Ahadzhanian and Mas claimed silver with a 1:26.00, falling just .13 seconds shy of McKendree's winning time.
 
OTHER NOTABLES
4th- Brynhildur Traustadottir, 1000 free
5th- Joao Silva, 50 free
5th- Jamie Glover, 1000 free
5th- Celina Schmidt, 200 IM
6th- Sarah Kerbrat, 1-meter
7th- Stanislaw Chalat, 1000 free
7th- Andrea Gomez, 200 IM
 
TUESDAY
The meet kicked off Tuesday evening with the men's and women's finals of the 800 freestyle relay, with both events netting a medal for the Hounds. The women's quartet of Heideyer, Vaselli, McCoy and Brynhildur Traustadottir claimed the silver, while the men's team of Buessing, Ahadzhanian, Hedeen and Silva took bronze.
 

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— Great Lakes Valley Conference (@GLVCsports) February 8, 2023