EVANSVILLE, Ind. – UIndy Swimming & Diving punctuated a successful season Saturday night, recording a pair of top-six team finishes at the NCAA DII Championships, held at the Deaconess Aquatic Center in Evansville, Ind. The UIndy men secured fourth place among the nation's best teams, while the women finished sixth.

The teams combined for 74 total All-America nods, eight school records and seven event national championships and three Division II records.ond-highest number in program history for a single DII Championships.
 
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Jeremias Pock authored one of the most impressive championship meets in NCAA history. The Nuremburg, Germany native racked six All-America accolades in six swims this week, including a single-meet school record four individual event titles and a fifth natty as part of the 400 medley relay. He reset three school records and a pair of meet records in the process and also swam the fastest 200 breast race in Division II history.
 
The latter effort came in his final swim of the week. He touched the wall in 1:51.12, outpacing second place by nearly three seconds.
 
Pock's 200 breaststroke national championship was the second event title of the night for the Greyhounds. Swann Plaza won the 1650 free by eight full seconds to capture the crown and notch his fourth All-America First Team recognition of the week.
 
UIndy also amassed significant points in the 200 backstroke. After freshman Valentina Masella placed fifth in the women's championship final, two men's team members added to the Greyhounds' point total. Silas Buessing won the consolation final—the fifth and final such win for the men's team—while Nico Basten took fifth in the A final. Buessing set a personal best of 1:44.14 this evening, and Basten's prelim time of 1:43.83 put him No. 2 in the UIndy all-time annals.
 
Speaking of the program annals, Celina Schmidt capped a stellar college career with a third-place finish in the 200 breast. She led the team with seven All-America nods on the week to up her career total to 23—tied for the fourth-highest total in school history.
 
Schmidt came right back to help the women's 400 free relay team finish seventh in the week's final event. She was joined by Kirabo Namutebi, Masella and Jasmin Hoffmann, who combined for a time of 3:21.48.
 
The final swim came from the men's 400 FR, as Zachary Anthony, Pietro Paciotti, Jan Schmidt and Basten posted the 11th-fastest time on the night, finishing just a second back of the school-record pace (2:54.45).
 
Earlier in the day, junior diver Megan Sunderman put a bow on her season with an 18th-place finish in the 1-meter prelims, compiling a score of 370.60.
  
ALL-AMERICAN HONORABLE MENTION
9th- Silas Buessing, men's 200 back
11th- men's 400 free relay


FRIDAY
Jeremias Pock's national-championship effort in the 100 breast set the meet record with a time 51.59. He came a mere .01 seconds shy of matching the Division II mark in the event—one he himself set recently at the GLVC Championships.
 
The Greyhounds combined for three more top-four finishes in individual events. Distance dynamo Swann Plaza continued to rack up points, placing third in the 500 free to match his earlier finish in the 1000. Celina Schmidt shared third place in the 100 breast—good for her team-high sixth All-America nod overall. Lastly, freshman diver Donovan McMahon crafted a successful Nationals debut with a fourth-place performance on the 3-meter board.
 
Freshman Valentina Masella added another All-America First Team honor to pile, placing eighth in the 100 back with a time of 54.92. She shaved three hundredths off her previous best, improving on her fifth-fastest time in school history.
 
As usual, the relays punctuated the evening's festivities. The squad of Kirabo Namutebi, Addisyn Newman, Jasmin Hoffmann and Caroline Reinke secured runner-up status in the women's 200 free relay. Their combined time of 1:30.43 was just a 10th of a second behind the school-record pace.
 
The men's 200 free relay capped the night, with Pock joining Zachary Anthony, Johann-Matthew Matamoro and Elias Noe. The team won heat 2 with a time of 1:18.35 to ultimately earn fourth place.
 
ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION 
9th- Jan Schmidt, men's 500 free
11th- Camille Trinquesse, men's 100 back
14th- Elisa Funes, women's 100 breast
16th- Caroline Reinke, women's 100 back


THURSDAY
The relay team of Camille Trinquesse, Pock, Elias Noe and Zachary Anthony made history Thursday evening. With a time of 3:06.12, the quartet swam the fastest 400 medley relay in Division II history. They held off GLVC-rival Drury by just .38 seconds on the way to winning the UIndy men's team's first national title in the event.
 
Earlier in the evening, Pock claimed his second individual event championship in as many days, winning the 400 IM with a time of 3:42.95. Teammate Nico Basten joined him on the podium after his best 400 IM swim of the year placed him fourth in the grueling event.
 
Celina Schmidt earned runner-up status in the women's 400 IM, with her 4:16.20 representing a personal best. A Greyhound has now finished first or second in the women's 400 IM in five of the last six year.
 
The Greyhounds also combined to win three consolation finals on the evening, including a particularly memorable 100 fly swim by Noe. The junior out of Holbaek, Denmark crushed the field by posting the first sub-46 time in program history in the event (45.43).
 
Junior diver Megan Sunderman earned her third straight All-America Honorable Mention nod on the 3-meter board. She qualified for the finals and racked up 382.55 to claim 16th place among the nation's best.
 
ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION 
9th- Silas Buessing, men's 400 IM
9th- Jan Schmidt, men's 200 free
11th- Swann Plaza, men's 200 free
16th- Megan Sunderman, 3-meter

WEDNESDAY
After Swann Plaza (third) and Jan Schmidt (eighth) set the tone with a pair of All-America swims in the men's 1000, Jeremias Pock followed with a statement swim in the 200 IM. The recently-crown GLVC Men's Swimmer of the Year out-paced the field by two seconds with a school-record time of 1:42.39. It marked his first career national championship in the event and second overall (200 IM, 2025).
 
Celina Schmidt also scored big points in the 200 IM, placing third on the women's side. Her time of 1:59.42 set a new collegiate best.
 
Namutebi capped the Hounds' individual success with her second 50 free national title in the last three years. The junior touched the wall in 22.10, besting Nova Southeastern's Kristina Orban by a quarter of the second.
 
UIndy's 200 medley relay teams both earned spots in the top five. Namutebi returned to the pool to anchor the women's team, joining Caroline Reinke, Schmidt, Caprice Schlueter in a fourth-place performance (1:38.96). Camille Trinquesse, Pock, Elias Noe and Johann-Matthew Matamoro combined for a fifth-place time of 1:24.97.

In the diving well, freshman Donovan McMahon earned his way into the consolation final of the 1-meter event. He compiled a score of 441.30 point to secure 11th place and All-America Honorable Mention honors in his Nationals debut.
  
ALL-AMERICA HONORABLE MENTION
10th- Nico Basten, men's 200 IM
11th- Valentina Masella, women's 200 IM
15th- Silas Buessing, men's 200 IM
16th- Jasmin Hoffmann, women's 50 free


TUESDAY
With just two events being held on day one, the Greyhounds earned All-America honors in both the men's and women's 800 free relays, with the men's team resetting the school record.

In the timed final, the UIndy men's quartet of Jan Schmidt, Harrison Andoko, Nico Basten and Swann Plaza snapped the school mark with a time of 6:21.74, good for fourth place among the nation's best.

The women's team of Valentina Masella, Hanna Burke, Caroline Reinke and Lillie Arps earned All-America Honorable Mention accolades with a time of 7:25.23, taking second in heat 2 and 10th overall.