EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The 2026 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships continued with its third day of action Thursday. The eventful day netted seven more gold medals for the Greyhounds, with the UIndy men taking the lead and the Greyhound women remaining second in the team standings.
 
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 night.
 
TEAM STANDINGS THRU DAY 3 (top 4 only)

	WOMEN	PTS			MEN	PTS
1.	Drury	1009.5		1.	UIndy	909
2.	UIndy	910		2.	Drury	796
3.	UMSL	490		3.	McKendree	732.5
4.	Lewis	382		4.	S&T	409

 

THURSDAY
The UIndy men rocketed up the standings on day three, turning a 37-point deficit into a triple-digit lead. The men won all five of their events, bookended by gold-medal performances on the 1-meter board and in the 400 free relay.
 
The men's relay race highlighted the action as the only record breaker of the evening. Following a close win by the UIndy women's team of Caroline Reinke, Celina Schmidt, Caprice Schlueter and Kirabo Namutebi, the men's group—Jokubas Jankauskas, Jeremias Pock, Elias Noe and Zachary Anthony—combined for a 3:07.90, resetting the top time in both the UIndy and GLVC record books while also positioning them as the fastest quartet in DII.
 
Both Schmidt and Pock captured their second individual gold in as many days, sweeping the 400 IM for the Hounds. The men's podium was particularly crowded, as Silas Buessing (silver) and Nico Basten (bronze) joined Pock at the top.
 
Schlueter led a parade of Greyhounds in the women's 100 butterfly. The German rookie took gold with a time of 54.52, with three other Hounds finishing in the top seven and a total of seven in the top 14.
 
Elias Noe followed with a victory in the men's 100 fly, out-touching McKendree's Daniel de Oliveira by three hundredths.
 
Freshman Donovan McMahon made a splash in his first conference meet, winning gold in the 1-meter diving event. His 592.65 points topped teammate and silver medalist Adam Carr, while fellow-Greyhounds Randy Balbuena and Eliot Riem placed fourth and fifth, respectively.
 
Swann Plaza added a bronze medal in the 200 free, while Dani Sita placed fourth in the 100 fly.
 
WEDNESDAY
UIndy crafted a number of impressive performances on the day. Junior diver Megan Sunderman got the ball rolling with a gold-medal performance on the 3-meter board. It marked the first career conference gold for Sunderman and the eighth in the last nine years for Hounds in the event.
 
Later in the lap pool, Jeremias Pock delivered one of the more impressive swims of the night, setting both school and conference records in the 200 IM. His gold-medal time of 1:43.63 was good for the fastest time in Division II all year.
 
Senior distance standout Swann Plaza also wrote his name in the record books. His 1000 free victory yielded a conference-record time of 8:53.72, topping all DII student-athletes this season.
 
On the women's side, Kirabo Namutebi captured her third consecutive GLVC gold medal in the 50 free. The accomplished sprinted touched the wall in 22.20 seconds, resetting the league record and keeping her name at the top of the DII ranks.
 
Graduate-student Celina Schmidt added to her decorated career with a win in the 200 IM, leading a quartet of Hounds in the top nine.
 
Zachary Anthony shared the silver medal in the men's 50 free with a 19.93, Sydney Alamein and Jan Schmidt placed fourth in their respective 1000 free races, and Silas Buessing (5th) and Nico Basten (7th) racked up significant points in the men's 200 IM final.
 
The Greyhound capped the fruitful evening by sweeping gold in the 200 medley relay. The women's team of Valentina Masella, Schmidt, Caprice Schlueter and Namutebi combined for a winning time of 1:40.08; while the men's quartet of Camille Trinquesse, Pock, Elias Noe and Johann-Matthew Matamoro touched first with a 1:25.54.
 
TUESDAY
The 2026 GLVC Swimming & Diving Championships got underway Tuesday night at Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind. With only the 800 freestyle relay on the docket, the UIndy secured a pair of medals and a school record in the two events.
 
The men's team of Jan Schmidt, Harrison Andoko, Jokubas Jankauskas and Swann Plaza combined for a time of 6:26.61, resetting the program record by more than a second while also netting a bronze medal.  The Greyhounds women won the silver, with the quartet of Valentina Masella, Lillie Arps. Celina Schmidt and Caroline Reinke combining for a 7:26.12. The women hit an NCAA B cut while the men improved their provisional status.
 
The Greyhound B teams also contributed to the cause. The men's team of Nico Basten, William Pettifer, Camille Trinquesse and Silas Buessing won their heat with a 6:37.51, good for the fourth-fastest time of the evening. The UIndy women's B team of Hanna Burke, Malaika Claudic, Sydney Alamein and Dana Dominguez took the runner-up spot in their initial heat.