INDIANAPOLIS – The UIndy Swimming & Diving team punctuated a successful season Saturday, recorded a pair of top-five finishes at the NCAA DII Championships, held at the IU Natatorium in downtown Indy. The UIndy women secured fourth place among the nation's best teams, while the men finished fifth.

The teams combined for 67 total All-America nods, eight school records and seven event national championships, with the latter total matching the second-highest number in program history for a single DII Championships.

"We swam great and we also had some tough luck," Head Coach Brent Noble confided. "It felt like we came here and did what we needed to do and circumstances didn't quite go our way, so we ended up in fourth and fifth. I think our performances were better than fourth and fifth. But we had a season we should be happy with; we got seven national champions, three of them relay national champions.

"We had a great week. We came away with some things we have to fix, and some things hopefully in the future will go differently. And that's ok. But I'm happy with the group. I'm happy with the season we've had. It truly is a success."

SATURDAY
Andrea Gomez wrapped up an incredible week with a grueling final day of competition. She bookended the evening finals with a gutsy performance in the mile before capping her week by anchoring the 400 free relay. The senior standout posted a 16:25.93 in the mile to take third place before helping the Hounds—along with Kirabo Namutebi, Andrea Paaske and Isabella Revstedt—to a ninth-place finish in the 400 FR.
 
She led the Greyhound women with four individual All-America First Team honors on the week, all of them top-three showings and two of them national championships. She is only the third Greyhound woman to record two individual event titles in the same week.
 
UIndy's breaststrokers continued to rack up points. Celina Schmidt notched a fourth-place showing in the women's 200 breast, while the Jeremias Pock and Brayden Cole finished second and fourth, respectively, in the men's race.
 
In his NCAA Championships debut, Pock emerged as the UIndy men's biggest point scorer. He compiled seven All-America accolades in all, including winning the 400 IM championship.
 
Both UIndy teams earned an All-America First Team nod in the 200 back. First, Mia Krstevska took third with the second-fastest time in program history (1:56.19), followed by Silas Buessing's sixth-place performance and his time of 1:43.79. Like Krstevska, he etched his name in the No. 2 spot in the UIndy annals, though his best mark of 1:43.51 came in the morning prelims.
 
Namutebi earned All-America Honorable Mention on the 100 free, winning the consolation final with a personal-best 49.67. The men's 400 free relay of Oskar Sawicki, Aqeel Joseph, Elias Noe and Pock earned the same accolades with a 14th-place finish in the final race of the week (2:56.88).

FRIDAY
Fifth-year senior Brayden Cole made a life-long memory after pulling off his best performance on the biggest stage. He and fellow-breaststroker (and roommate) Jeremias Pock had been pushing each other all season, culminating in a 1-3 finish in the 100 breast Friday night. After the two improbably tied for the best time in the morning prelims (52.58), Cole broke his own school record with a 51.81 to win the final, followed by Pock in third at 52.24.
 
"We had some more really good performances tonight," noted Head Coach Brent Noble. "Brayden winning his first national championship was certainly one of them. He's dropped about a second each of his five years here to finally end up on top after not making our conference scoring roster his first two years."
 
The Greyhounds later capped the evening with another relay national championship—their third of the week. The women's 200 free team of Kirabo Namutebi, Julia Magierowska, Andrea Paaske and Isabella Revstedt came just four hundredths shy of breaking the five-year-old school record. All four Hounds posted a sub-23 split on the way to a winning time of 1:30.37.
 
Added Noble: "Our women won the 200 free relay for the fourth time in five years. Three of them have been there before, and the fourth is Kirabo Namutebi, who is the second-fastest woman ever in DII."
 

"The Greyhpunds are back on top! National champs in the 200 free relay!" ??#D2WSD x #D2Festival pic.twitter.com/PTjb75vt7I

— UIndy Swim & Dive (@UIndySwimDive) March 15, 2025

 
The men's 200 free relay also earned All-America status. Oskar Sawicki, Aqeel Joseph, Elias Noe and Jeremias Pock combined for a 1:18.59 during the first of two heats, ultimately securing fifth place overall.
 
Individually, Gomez continued her fairytale week. The senior collected her third top-two finish by snatching national runner-up honors in the 200 butterfly. The freshly-crowned national champ in the 400 IM and 1000 free, Gomez finished just behind her own school-record pace in the 200 fly, with her 1:57.81 only a half-second back of first place.
 
Additionally, Megan Gregory and Mattia Rossi each earned All-America Honorable Mention Friday. Gregory won the women's 100 breast consolation final with a personal-best 1:01.38, good for third on the program's all-time top 10. Rossi, meanwhile, swam a UIndy top-five time of 47.65 in the 100 back prelims before going on to place fourth in the evening B final (48.11).
 
On the boards, Alexis Lumaj compiled a score of 439.30 pull off a narrow win in the 3-meter consolation final. The resulting ninth-place finish yielded her sixth career All-America honor overall.

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 | 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.
 

Your 2025 national champion in the women's 1??0??0??0?? free…

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
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.