INDIANAPOLIS – The UIndy swimming & diving program tacked on two more event titles at the NCAA DII Championships on Thursday. Andrea Gomez and Jeremias Pock won their respective 400 IM race, part of eight All-America showings on the evening and five national championships on the week.
 
The national meet is being held at the IU Natatorium in downtown Indy as part of the 2025 DII National Championships Festival. Action continues tomorrow and runs through Saturday, with morning prelims at 10 a.m. ET, followed by diving at 1 p.m. and evening finals at 5:30 p.m. each day. Through 20 events, the UIndy men sit in third place while the women are positioned fourth.

THURSDAY
Just as they had done a day prior in the 200 medley relay, the Greyhounds swept the national titles in the 400 IM. Gomez notched her second event title in as many days. Twenty-four hours after winning the 1000, Gomez broke her own 400 IM school record with a time of 4:11.72 to easily hold off the field.
 
On the very next race, Pock captured gold in the men's 400 IM. His 3:44.03 was good for the second-fastest time in school history and outpaced second place by more than three seconds.
 

A new champ in the 400 IM??

Jeremias Pock touched the wall in 3:44.03 to win the event here at the Nat! ?? pic.twitter.com/8ywiBmUAlf

— UIndy Swim & Dive (@UIndySwimDive) March 13, 2025

 
The Hounds also occupied two spots on the 100 fly podium. Andrea Paaske's time of 54.51 earned fifth-place points as well as her first career individual All-America nod.
 
Oskar Sawicki followed with a fourth-place showing in the men's 100 fly, with his 46.38 etching his name in the No. 2 spot in the UIndy all-time top 10.
 
Paaske returned to the pool to handle the butterfly leg of the women's 400 medley relay. She combined with Caroline Reinke, Celina Schmidt and Kirabo Namutebi to snag eighth place.
 
Meanwhile, Silas Buessing won the consolation final of the men's 400 IM with a personal-best 3:50.44. Mihir Ambre did the same in the men's 100 fly (46.87), followed closely by Elias Noe and his 13th-overall finish (47.06).

WEDNESDAY | results | Coach Noble's thoughts
Andrea Gomez earned the program's first-ever title in the women's 1000, slicing nearly five seconds off her own school record with a time of 9:44.90. In the closest race of the night, the standout senior held off Simon Fraser's Tori Meklensek, out-touching her by just three one-hundredths of a second.
 

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ANDREA GOMEZ!!! ??#D2WSD x #D2Fesstival pic.twitter.com/oZutJS2Yi9

— UIndy Swim & Dive (@UIndySwimDive) March 12, 2025

 
The relay races proved just as fruitful for UIndy. The women's 200 medley team of Julia Magierowska, Megan Gregory, Andrea Paaske and Kirabo Namutebi snapped the Division II record with a 1:38.30 to best Nova Southeastern. The men's team of Mattia Rossi, Brayden Cole, Oskar Sawicki and Aqeel Joseph followed with a winning time of 1:24.68 to edge out second-place Tampa. It marked back-to-back 200 MR titles for the men, with Rossi the only newcomer on the squad this year.
 
UIndy also racked up three runner-up finishes, including one in the fastest 1000-free swim in Division II history. Tampa's Jacob Hamlin edged UIndy's own Cedric Buessing by less than a second, with both men's times besting the previous DII and meet records. Hamlin's 8:47.23 reset both marks while Buessing's 8:48.18 broke his own school record. Buessing, himself a two-time national champ in the event, placed in the top three in the 1000 in all four of his Nationals appearances.
 
Before anchoring the 200 MR team to gold, Namutebi earned runner-up status in the women's 50 free. She saw her DII record broken in the prelims when Augustana's Bryn Greenwaldt posted the first sub-22 time in the Division's history (21.92). In the evening finals, the two again went head-to-head, with Greenwaldt going 22.09 and Namutebi 22.26.
 
Making his DII Nationals debut, Jeremias Pock managed a record-breaking performance in the men's 200 IM. His time of 1:44.26 put his name atop the UIndy annuals in the event while securing second place among DII's best.
 
Diving also started Wednesday. Two Greyhound women earned All-America Honorable Mention on the 1-meter board, as Alexis Lumaj placed 11th overall and Megan Sunderman 13th.
 
OTHE NOTABLES
12th- Aqeel Joseph, men's 50 free
13th- Silas Buessing, men's 200 IM
14th- Celina Schmidt, women's 200 IM


TUESDAY | results
The UIndy swimming & diving team kicked off the NCAA DII Championships Tuesday night with a pair of memorable performances. With just two events being held on day one, the Greyhounds earned All-America honors and broke school records in both the men's and women's 800 free relays.

In the timed final, both UIndy teams found themselves in the second-to-last heat, but both managed top-eight times. The women's quartet of Andrea Gomez, Lillie Arps, Mia Krstevska and Brynhildur Traustadottir won their heat with a school-record time of 7:20.26. After the final heat was competed, their time settling at No. 7 on the scoreboard, earning All-America status.

The UIndy men saw their event play out in similar fashion, winning heat 2 and ultimately earning fifth overall. Cedric Buessing, Silas Buessing, Jokubas Jankauskas and Jeremias Pock reset the program record to 6:27.77, while Cedric's leadoff leg of 1:34.28 broke the UIndy 200 free mark.