THIS WEEK
The University of Iowa women’s swimming and diving team hosts Nebraska in its 2022-23 home season opener at the CRWC Natatorium at 4 p.m. (CT).
FOLLOW LIVE
- Live results for the meet will be available on hawkeyesports.com (via the schedule page) and Meet Mobile.
- Fans can also follow the Hawkeyes on Twitter/IowaSwimDive for live meet updates.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Iowa kicked off the 2022-23 season with a, 192-107, victory against UNI.
- The Hawkeyes enter the year returning seven athletes and welcoming 14 newcomers, including three transfers.
- Amongst the returners are junior divers Sarah Ballard and Claire Hartley as well as sophomore Makayla Hughbanks, who all qualified for last season’s NCAA Zone D Diving Championships.
GILBERTSON PREPPED FOR SENIOR SEASON
Senior Kennedy Gilbertson heads into the 2022-23 season after an impressive 2021-22 stint where she recorded a career best 51.28 in the 100 free and led the Hawkeyes with top times in the 50 free, 100 free, 100 back, 200 back, and 100 fly.
READY FOR RELAYS
The Hawkeyes bring back four swimmers, seniors Kennedy Gilbertson and Aleksandra Olesiak and juniors Maddie Black and Anna Pfeiffer, who led the team in all five team-leading relay squads during the 2021-22 season. Gilbertson was a part of four top teams, while Olesiak and Pfeiffer competed on three respective quartets.
HAWKEYE COACHING STAFF
- Nathan Mundt returns for his second stint with the Hawkeyes and he is the seventh head coach in program history. The Indiana native served as an Iowa assistant coach and recruiting coordinator from 2008-16 where he coached 33 All-Americans and 42 NCAA qualifiers and helped the Hawkeyes to six top 40 NCAA finishes and 115 school records.
- Diving coach Todd Waikel enters his 10th season with the program. Waikel has coached five All-Americans during his tenure in Iowa City and 15 NCAA Championship qualifiers.
- Mona Groteguth-Garcia also returns for her second season on the Hawkeye coaching staff, joining the Hawkeyes in 2021 following a two-year stint at TCU. She helped the Horned Frogs to back-to-back third-place Big 12 Conference finishes — the best for the program since 2012-13. Groteguth-Garcia also coached at the University of Indianapolis from 2017-19 and she swam collegiately at North Texas.
SWEET VICTORY
Iowa tallied 13 individual wins to beat in-state foe Northern Iowa, 197-102, for the Hawkeyes’ first meet victory under head coach Nathan Mundt in the 2022-23 road season-opening matchup.
FRESHMEN MAKING NOISE
Three Hawkeye freshmen combined for five individual wins against UNI. Scarlet Martin won the 50 free, 100 free and 100 fly, and Sabina Kupcova took first in the 200 free. Diver Lainey Woodward placed first off the one-meter springboards with 277.65.
WELCOME TO THE HAWKS
Graduate transfer Sheridan Schreiber and sophomore Alix O’Brien added four wins to Iowa’s 13 individual victories in its season-opening meet against UNI. O’Brien, previously at Denison, took first place in the 1,000 free, 500 free, and 200 IM. Schreiber, from TCU, won the 100 breast.
BREAKING RECORDS
The Hawkeyes broke four Glen F. Henry Pool records in the 2022-23 opener at UNI, including Schreiber’s 100 breast (1:04.16), Martin’s 50 free (23.55) and 100 fly (54.60) and the 400 free relay (Kupcova, Gilbertson, Pedersen, Martin).
UP NEXT
Iowa will be back on the road for another Big Ten dual against Minnesota at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on Nov. 11 at 5 p.m. (CT).
