Men's Swimming and Diving | 2/19/2026 9:37:00 PM

WIAC Championships Results

Brown Deer, Wis. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse men's swimming & diving team is in second-place after the second day of action at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships (presented by Culver's) Thursday night at the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center.

The Eagles have 276.0 team points while UW-Eau Claire leads with 286.0. UW-Stevens Point is third with 247.0 followed by UW-Whitewater fourth with 169.0 and UW-Oshkosh fifth with 12.0. 

UWL won a pair of individual conference titles and one relay on Thursday. The Eagles' Jacob Ketterling captured the 200 I.M. (1:49.06) while Tyler Hartmann took the 50 freestyle (20.70).

UWL's 400 medley relay of Coby Zander, Preston Nygaard, Ketterling and Hartmann won the league championship with a school and meet record time of 3:17.62. It is UWL's first 400 medley relay crown since 2014 with Stephen Hanko, Jesse Gambrell, David Flickinger and Jackson Uselman.

Zander, Nygaard, Ketterling and Hartmann broke the school record of 3:21.25 set by Zach Vinson, Ben Collins, Jonah Elfers and Blake Nelson last season. The Eagles also broke the WIAC Championship record of 3:17.77 from UW-Stevens Point in 2018.

Nygaard was second (1:49.76) and Caleb Jondle sixth (1:56.03) in the 200 I.M. on Thursday Ketterling's time of 1:49.06 set a school record, breaking Nygaard's record of 1:51.21 set in Thursday's preliminaries. Nygaard broke the previous record of 1:52.21 by Flickinger in 2014.

Ketterling is the first swimmer to win the 200 I.M. for UWL since Matt Diehl in 2010.
 

Jesse Hammes finished third (21.02) and Luca Nociti eighth (21.48) in Thursday's 50 freestyle final. With Hartmann's first-place finish, it marks the third straight season UWL won the title after Nelson captured the crown in 2024 and 2025.

In the 500 freestyle Thursday, UWL's Owen Acker placed third (4:40.50) with Davin Evans seventh (4:48.81). Gavin LaBeau finished 11th (4:48.57), Nolan Sannito 14th (4:53.28) and Nick Ellerd 15th (4:53.37).

Action continues Friday, February 20 with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 6:30 p.m.