EVANSVILE, Ind.— The 2024 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships continued Thursday, with the University of Indianapolis combining for three more wins and nine medal performances on the day. The Greyhounds remained in first place in the men's team standings, while the women held steady in second.
 
The annual conference meet, which is being held at Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind., resumes Friday morning with prelims starting at 11 a.m. ET. The event started Tuesday evening and will continue through Saturday.


STANDINGS THRU 20 EVENTS (top 5 only)

	WOMEN				MEN
1.	Drury	962		1.	UIndy	785
2.	UIndy	864		2.	McKendree	735
3.	McKendree	564		3.	Drury	711
4.	Lewis	430		4.	Lewis	481
5.	UMSL	428		5.	S&T	446

 
THURSDAY
The Hounds' first gold of the day came on the diving boards. Junior Alexis Lumaj secured her first career GLVC medal with a winning score of 460.55 on the 3-meter. Teammate Daeges Morgan took bronze in her conference debut with a 347.25.
 

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— Great Lakes Valley Conference (@GLVCsports) February 9, 2024

 
The evening finals kicked off with the 100 butterfly, where UIndy racked up a ton of points. Stefanie Markwardt and Elias Noe both took home silver medals, with both authoring top-five times in the UIndy record book. Seven more Hounds—four men and three women—placed in the top eight in the event, while Isabella Revstedt and Joao Silva won their respective gender's B final.
 
Andrea Gomez netted another runner-up finish for UIndy, touching second in the women's 400 IM.
 
Cedric Buessing continued his trend of dominance at the GLVC meet. The reigning GLVC Swimmer of the Year won the men's 400 IM by breaking his own school and conference record with a time of 3:43.78. His younger brother Silas wasn't far with a time of 3:49.83, good for bronze.
 

?? | Cedric Buessing is good as gold! ??#GLVCswim x @UIndySwimDive pic.twitter.com/Dd8OBrhAjx

— UIndy Athletics (@UIndyAthletics) February 9, 2024

 
Brynhildur Traustadottir led the Hounds in the 200 free, placing fifth with a B-cut mark of 1:51.81.
 
The evening's lone relay, the 400 medley, capped the day's festivities. UIndy took second in both women's heats, with the quartet of Revstedt, Celina Schmidt, Stefanie Markwardt and Kirabo Namutebi securing a silver medal with a strong NCAA provisional time of 3:41.30.
 
The Greyhound men followed with a pair of exciting victories. After the B team won their heat with a provisional time of 3:13.97, the Hounds' top team out-swam the GLVC's best with a gold-medal performance of 3:09.06, snapping school and conference records. Hear from the record-setting team of Cedric Buessing, Brayden Cole, Oskar Sawicki and Joao Silva here:
 

?? | Your NEW school and GLVC record holders… the UIndy men's 400 medley relay team! ??#GLVCswim x @UIndySwimDive pic.twitter.com/j7P04SxeZh

— UIndy Athletics (@UIndyAthletics) February 9, 2024

              
OTHER NOTABLES
4th- Oskar Sawicki, 100 fly
5th- Mihir Ambre, 100 fly
6th- Julia Magierowska, 100 fly
6th- Jeron Thompson, 100 fly
7th- Sharon Semchiy, 100 fly
7th- Megan Sunderman, 3-meter
8th- Karolina Dubcakova, 400 IM


WEDNESDAY
The night's action started with a timed final of the 1000-yard freestyle, and after a fourth-place finish last year, Brynhildur Traustadottir earned a spot on the podium tonight. The Icelandic distance swimmer earned silver with a time of 10:05.39 – the second-fastest 1000 time in program history. All told, five of the top 11 spots were occupied by Greyhounds, with fourth-place Jamie Glover sliding into seventh on the school's top 10 list.
 
Cedric Buessing earned his second medal of the meet, taking gold in the men's 1000 for the third straight year. His time of 8:57.18 set a new meet record and is the fastest in Division II this season. He shard the podium with teammate Stanislaw Chalat, whose 9:13.33 netted a bronze medal.
 

?? ???????? ???????????? ?????????? ??@UIndyAthletics' Cedric Buessing clocks a new league standard in the men's 1000 Free at 8:57.18, just 0.17 seconds faster than the previous mark from 2021!#GLVCswim | #GLVCchamps pic.twitter.com/r7p9pXl8R9

— GLVC Sports Network (@GLVCSN) February 8, 2024

 
Silas Buessing moved up the UIndy top 10 with a third-place performance in the 200 IM, with his 1:47.14 vaulting his name to fourth in the program annals.
 
Later, Kirabo Namutebi had one of the more exciting GLVC debuts. The freshman sprinter out of Kampala, Uganda captured gold in the 50 free, out-touching Drury's fastest swimmers with a lightning-fast 22.65. In fact, she recording two sub-23s on the day, with her morning prelim time of 22.57 good for No. 2 on the school's all-time list.
 
After winning the morning prelim, senior Joao Silva followed with a bronze-medal swim in the men's 50. His 19.92 was just 16 hundredths back of first.
 
Meanwhile on the boards, the Hounds started the diving events by nabbing two more medals. Julio Osuna and Jason Lenzo earned gold and bronze, respectively, on the 1-meter. It marked the third straight GLVC title for Osuna in the event, who is also the defending national champ.

The Greyhounds' capped the night with a pair of podium finishes in the always-exciting 200 medley relay. Jeron Thompson, Brayden Cole, Oskar Sawicki and Aqeel Joseph combined for a school- and meet-record time of 1:24.90 to take gold.
 
The women's team of Julia Magierowska, Savannah Mueller, Stefanie Markwardt and Kirabo Namutebi claimed silver with a 1:41.43, just .06 seconds shy of Drury's winning time.
 

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— UIndy Swim & Dive (@UIndySwimDive) February 8, 2024

              
OTHER NOTABLES
4th- Brynhildur Traustadottir, 1000 free
4th- Adam Carr, 1-meter diving
6th- Oskar Sawicki, 50 free
6th- Sydney Alamein, 1000 free
8th- Aqeel Joseph, 50 free
8th- Stefanie Markwardt, 50 free
8th- Andrea Gomez, 200 IM
 
TUESDAY
The conference 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 men's quartet of Cedric Buessing, Silas Buessing, Elias Noe and Joao Silva claimed the silver, while the women's team of Celina Schmidt, Andrea Gomez, Sharon Semchiy and Brynhildur Traustadottir took bronze. Both team's improved upon B-cut times, with both ranked in the top five in the nation.
 
Meanwhile, the women's B team won the consolation final, as Jamie Glover, Mia Krstevska, Hanna Burke and Lillie Arps combined for a time of 7:29.27, which would have been good for fourth in the championship race.