Women's Swimming and Diving | 10/31/2026 2:56:00 PM
Results
La Crosse, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's swimming & diving team earned a dual victory over UW-Eau Claire Saturday in the Richard L. Pein Natatorium.
The Eagles finished with 171.5 team points with the Blugolds totaling 128.5. Swimming events were held on Friday with diving Saturday.
DIVING ACTION
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Abbey Thornton swept the one (228.55 points) and three-meter (234.60) titles.
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Natalie Peterson was second in the one (208.05) and third in the three (204.90) while
Emma Lieb was second in the one-meter (209.50) and
Ellie Kessler third in the three-meter (205.45).
SWIMMING ACTION - RELAYS
* UWL swept both relays on Friday as
Shefali Ramakrishnan,
Zoey Rank,
Greta Wiskus and
Libby Cleveland winning the 200 medley relay (1:47.58).
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Ava Pulvermacher,
Hannah Wadholm, Wiskus and Cleveland captured the 400 freestyle relay (3:38.46).
SWIMMING ACTION - INDIVIDUAL WINNERS
* UWL won five individual swimming events, including two titles from Ramakrishnan. She won the 100 backstroke (1:00.26) and 100 butterfly (58.61).
* Wiskus captured the 50 freestyle (24.56),
McKenna Biegler the 500 freestyle (5:22.37) and
Ella Stadler the 200 I.M. (2:15.68).
SWIMMING ACTION - TOP THREE FINISHERS:
* Rank and
Taylor Gergen each recorded three top three finishes. Rank was second in the 100 backstroke (1:00.31) and 200 I.M. (2:16.06) and third in the 200 breaststroke (2:34.99). Gergen placed second in the 200 breaststroke (2:28.82) and third in the 100 breaststroke (1:08.58) and 200 I.M. (2:16.68).
* Cleveland and Newman both had a pair of top three finishes on Friday. Cleveland was second in the 50 freestyle (24.87) and third in the 100 freestyle (55.11) with Newman finishing third in the 1,000 freestyle (11:21.06) and 200 backstroke (2:13.88).
* Wiskus was second in the 100 freestyle (54.96) while Biegler finished second in the 200 freestyle (1:58.95) and
Morgan Salbreiter third in the 200 butterfly (2:17.13).
* Pulvermacher finished third in the 200 freestyle (2:00.57) with
Ellie Brown tied for third in the 50 freestyle (25.06) and
Abby Gierke third in the 200 butterfly (2:21.01).
UP NEXT:
* UWL returns to action Friday, November 20 at the Rochester (Minn.) Diving Invitational at the Rochester-Olmstead (Minn.) County Recreation Center Natatorium.
