2025 Horizon League Championships
- Dates: Wednesday, February 19–Saturday, February 22
- Location: IU Natatorium, Indianapolis, IN
- Defending Champions: Oakland ladies (11x); Oakland males (11x)
- Psych Sheets
- Reside Outcomes (Accessible on MeetMobile)
- Reside Video: ESPN+
- Championship Central
- Fan Information
- Groups: Cleveland State, IU Indianapolis, Northern Kentucky*, Oakland, UW-Inexperienced Bay, UW-Milwaukee, Youngstown State
- Outcomes: Day 1 | Day 2
- Recaps: Day 1
TEAM SCORES (THRU DAY 2)
WOMEN
- Oakland – 284
- Milwaukee – 240
- Youngstown State – 201
- Cleveland State – 196
- IUPUI – 177
- Inexperienced Bay – 92
MEN
- Oakland – 346
- IUPUI – 257
- Milwaukee – 162
- Cleveland State – 138
- Youngstown State – 133
- Inexperienced Bay – 120
- Northern Kentucky – 79
The 2nd day of the 2025 Horizon League Championships noticed 11-time defending males’s and ladies’s champions Oakland soar out to the lead within the crew standings.
Although in the present day got here up in Oakland’s favor, it was IUPUI that bought out to a sizzling begin, seeing senior Emmaleigh Zietlow win the ladies’s 500 free in 4:47.02. The most effective swimmers in Horizon League historical past, Zietlow received Horizon League Freshman of 12 months honors in 2022, then was Co-Swimmer of the meet in 2023, and was the only real recipient of Swimmer of the Meet in 2024. Together with her efficiency tonight, Zietlow broke her personal championship file within the 500 free and have become a 4-time HL champion within the occasion.
It was an awesome day for the five hundred free within the Horizon League, as Oakland senior Jonas Cantrell received the boys’s 500 free in a really speedy 4:18.06. The efficiency marks a profession finest for Cantrell, and, like Zietlow, his win tonight marks his 4th-consecutive Horizon League title within the 500.
The Golden Grizzlies then stored it rolling, seeing senior Jordyn Shipps repeat as ladies’s 200 IM champion. Shipps swam a 1:59.72, profitable the race by practically 3 seconds.
Oakland made it a sweep of the 200 IM, as grad scholar Jack Wike ripped a 1:45.30 for victory. He was off his profitable time of 1:44.66 from final 12 months, which additionally stands because the championship file, however he nonetheless received the race by over a second. It was a 1-2 punch for the Golden Grizzlies, as sophomore Max Haney took 2nd in 1:46.66.
Cleveland State then earned their first win of the meet, as Grace Chelf clocked a 22.78 to win the ladies’s 50 free. She received the race by a convincing margin, touching practically half a second forward of runner-up Ronja Riihinen (Oakland) got here in 2nd with a 23.14.
Following his phenomenal 18.6 anchor break up on the 200 medley relay final evening, Oakland junior Charlie Brown received the boys’s 50 free in 19.69 tonight. That swim got here after Brown clocked a 19.59 in prelims this morning. The lads’s 50 free was Oakland’s finest occasion of the evening, seeing junior Micah Scheffer take 2nd in 19.87, whereas Harry Nicholson, one other junior, got here in third with a 19.94.
Scheffer (20.04), Nicholson (19.34), Wike (19.53), and Brown (18.82) would go on to win the boys’s 200 free relay for Oakland with a brand new Horizon League file of 1:17.73. That additionally marks a program file for Oakland.
Milwaukee earned the win within the ladies’s 200 free relay, seeing Gabrielle LePine (23.05), Carly Plate (23.17), Christiana Brooks (22.91), and Janelle Schulz (22.50) crew up for a 1:31.63. Gracie Chelf swam a 22.74 main off the Cleveland State relay, which was quicker than she swam to win the 50 free earlier within the session.
Oakland’s Elleana Chalifoux received ladies’s 1-meter diving with a rating of 293.40. Teammate Victoria Sanders got here in 2nd with a rating of 290.95.
