MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Senior
Izzy Treanor repeated as the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Women's Diver of the Year following a win in the three-meter diving as the St. Olaf College men's and women's swimming and diving teams concluded their showings at the MIAC Championships on Saturday at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center.
Treanor became the student-athlete in the conference to claim consecutive MIAC Women's Diver of the Year accolades since Jenna Nagy of St. Catherine University in 2014 and 2015 by finishing off her second sweep of the diving titles with a first-place finish in the three-meter diving. The senior is the second Ole to earn back-to-back MIAC Women's Diver of the Year accolades, joining Alyssa Germeroth in 2007 and 2008, and has won five conference diving titles in her career.
Treanor's win was one of four All-MIAC performances for St. Olaf on the final day of the conference meet, which saw the Oles compile six Honorable Mention All-MIAC swims. St. Olaf concluded the meet fourth in the men's standings with 453 points and fifth in the women's standings with 476 points.
After posting the top score in the prelims (427.55), Treanor did so again in the finals, registering 440.35 points to win the event by over 15 points. Senior
Tatum Hauck added her second All-MIAC performance of the meet with a third-place finish in the 100-yard freestyle (53.50), while sophomore
Paige Steenblock secured her third all-conference accolade of the meet with a third-place result in the 200-yard butterfly (2:14.00).
On the men's side, sophomore
William Wallace logged a runner-up finish in the 100-yard freestyle in 46.02 seconds, knocking nearly a second off his sixth-place time from the prelims (47.05) in the finals. The All-MIAC performance was the second of the meet for the sprinter, who was also third in the 50-yard freestyle.
Seniors
Daniel Bloedow and
Marcus Hauck swam to honorable-mention honors in the 200-yard butterfly and 200-yard backstroke, respectively, as Bloedow was fourth in the 200 fly (1:55.91) and Hauck was sixth in the 200 back (1:59.41). Bloedow and Wallace were also part of St. Olaf's honorable mention fourth-place 400-yard freestyle relay (3:09.34) along with sophomore
Nick Starcevich and senior
Jaden Chant.
The St. Olaf women added three honorable-mention finishes on the night as well. Senior
Charlotte Thomson improved by over 20 seconds from her seed time with a fourth-place finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle (18:08.95), while first year
Alana Schmitzer was fifth in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:27.62). The Oles' 400-yard freestyle relay of junior
Ellen Varley, Hauck, first year
Samantha Sylvester, and Thomson placed fourth in 3:36.69.
Following the meet, senior
Oscar Hanifl was named the MIAC Men's Co-Diver of the Year along with Eli Grabinski of Saint John's University after Hanifl and Grabinski both finished 1-2 in the two diving events. Hanifl is the first Ole to be named the MIAC Men's Diver of the Year since Leif Jorgensen in 2019.
St. Olaf will send a group of divers to the NCAA Division III Region 1 Diving Championships in Granville, Ohio on Friday and Saturday, March 1-2.