By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
Wisconsin Badgers vs. Minnesota Golden Gophers
November 7, 2025 University of Minnesota Aquatic Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Short Course Yards (25 yards) Full Meet Results Team Scores: #23 Wisconsin Men 177 – Minnesota 117 #25 Wisconsin Women 160 – #23 Minnesota Women 117The Wisconsin Badgers have faced a gauntlet of a fall schedule to start the tenure of new head coach Dr. Jack Brown, and in a big meet against their chief rivals from the University of Minnesota, the Badgers stood tall and picked up a pair of wins on Friday evening in Minneapolis.
Women’s Meet Recap
Sophomore Maggie Wanezek is among the swimmers who have thrived the most amid the change. A highly-touted recruit out of high school, last season Wanezek went a best time in a November dual meet against Minnesota (50.96) and didn’t crack 51 seconds for the rest of the year.
On Friday, she crushed that best time with a 50.30 that leaves her just outside of the top 25 all-time.
She also won the 200 back in 1:51.60, which was not a best time but was her best time in a dual meet. She was 1:55 in the team’s opener in late September, then 1:53 against Michigan and Notre Dame a month ago.
Fastest NCAA Times, 2025-2026 Season, Women’s 100 Yard Backstroke
Bella Sims, Michigan, Junior – 49.87 Claire Curzan, Virginia, Junior – 50.08 Maggie Wanezek, Wisconsin, Sophomore – 50.30 Miranda Grana, Indiana, Junior – 50.75 Erika Pelaez, NC State, Sophomore – 51.23She was among a number of swimmers at-or-nearing personal bests for Wisconsin in this meet. Freshman Brooke Corrigan won the 100 breaststroke in 1:00.35, leading a 1-2-3 finish with Hazal Ozkan (1:00.48) and Catherine Hughes (1:00.78). That swim for Corrigan matches the lifetime best she swam at the 2024 Speedo Winter Junior Championships – West.
She also won the 200 breaststroke in 2:09.62, which knocked exactly two seconds off her lifetime best of 2:11.62 set at the same Winter Junior Championships.
Both swims move her into the Badgers’ all-time top 10 in those events, with both the 100 and 200 times ranking her 6th in program history. That sets up a great training group for the Badgers this season: Ozkan’s swims from last season both rank her 3rd in program history and Hughes is top 10 in program history in the 100 as well.
Fastest NCAA Times by Freshman, 2025-2026 Season, Women’s 100 Yard Breaststroke
Emeli Jefimova, NC State – 57.67 Silje Slyngstadli, Cal – 58.70 Elle Scott, Cal – 59.56 Martina Bukvic, LSU – 59.78 Sophia Umstead, Virginia – 1:00.17 Brooke Corrigan, Wisconsin – 1:00.35The 1-2-3 sweep against the Gophers in both breaststroke events is notable as for a time, Minnesota was one of the most successful breaststroke programs in the country.
Riding a 1.3 second lead from Wanezek (23.50) and Corrigan (27.59) on the front-half, the Badgers ran away with the 200 medley relay win to open the meet. The last two legs were Hailey Tierney on fly (23.61) and Abby Wanezek on free (21.76), holding the best splits on all but the butterfly leg. Morgan Thomas split 23.12 on fly for Minnesota as they took 2nd in 1:38.07, with both relays carrying just one senior.
Minnesota stacked its relays to try and chase a 2-3 finish, but the B relay was disqualified.
Again bookended by the Wanezek sisters, Wisconsin also won the 400 free relay to close the meet in 3:14.51. Abby Wanezek led off in 48.90 and Maggie Wanezek anchored in 47.97. In between were Tierney (49.06) and Blair Stoneburg (48.58).
The rangy Stoneburg won the 500 free individually in 4:42.78, which is almost as fast as her season best from last year.
In total, Wisconsin won 10 out of the day’s 16 events. Other standouts included sophomore Stella Chapman winning the 200 fly in 1:57.98 in a nailbiter ahead of Minnesota’s Rachel Conley (1:58.19). That’s a new personal best for Chapman.
While she didn’t get any wins, Wisconsin freshman Lily Van Heel also started off her Badger career with a bang; while she didn’t win any races, she swam personal bests in the 50 back (24.67), 100 back (53.15), and 200 back (1:56.33).
While the Wisconsin women had a lot of headline performances, a deep Gophers squad kept the meet competitive throughout.
“A lot of positives to pull out today,” said Minnesota head coach Kelly Kremer. “Both teams performed very well. Our women’s team right now, at this point of the year, is light years ahead of where we were at this time last year, so we are really excited about that.”
A strong example of that is sophomore Livi Wanner, who won the 50 free in 22.10. That’s just .01 seconds shy of her lifetime best from last year’s Big Ten Championships and three-tenths better than she was at this dual last season.
A similar story holds for Katie McCarthy, who won the 400 IM in 4:10.85. In her first 400 IM of the season, she’s already within half-a-second of her lifetime best; she swam 4:25.89 in a dual meet on November 8, 2024.
Morgan Thomas backed up her medley relay split with a 52.21 in the 100 fly, which was not just a season best but a lifetime best. Her previous fastest, and her only other sub-53 second swim, was a 52.93 from last year’s mid-season invite.
That jumps her up four spots to 5th place in the program’s all-time rankings.
Minnesota also swept diving, with Elna Winderstrom winning on 1-meter and Vivi Del Angel winning on 3-meter. The Gophers went 1-2-3 on both boards.
Men’s Recap
The men’s outcome was more lopsided, with the Badgers winning 13 out of 16 events, including 13 out of 14 swimming events.
The Badgers were led by Hungarian senior Dominik Mark Torok, who won the 200 breaststroke (1:55.57), the 200 fly (1:41.93), and the 400 IM (3:45.03) individually.
The 200 breaststroke and 200 fly were just-off his lifetime bests in those races of 1:55.31 and 1:41.25, respectively, that were previously done at mid-season invites or the NCAA Championships.
Sophomore Yoav Romano broke nine minutes in the 1000 free for the first time in his career, touching in 8:59.74. He later added a win in the 500 free in 4:18.86.
The Badger men dominated the breaststroke races, mirroring the women. Grad student Ben Wiegand won the 100 in 53.52, followed by sophomore Nate Harris (54.08) and junior Brayden Henkel (54.12). In the 200 behind Torok was Harris again in 1:59.19.
Other standouts for the Wisconsin men included Nathan Welker, who won the 100 back in 46.68, which is a season best after going 48 highs in each of the team’s first two meets. That is the fastest that he has ever been in a dual meet, half-a-second better than this meet last year, and just a quarter-second shy of his lifetime best.
Wisconsin won a nailbiter of a 200 medley relay to open the meet in 1:25.99, including a pullaway 19.19 anchor from Wiegand. The Minnesota “A” relay was ultimately disqualified after finishing about a tenth back, so Wisconsin officially got maximum points and a 1-2 finish.
Finnish junior Luukas Vainio ripped off a pair of individual wins and season bests, winning the 200 free to start his meet in 1:34.37 and the 100 free later in 44.22. He then swam the second leg of Wisconsin’s winning 400 free relay, which finished in 2:53.74.
Minnesota’s lone swimming win was from superstar sophomore Jacob Johnson, who rewrote the school recordbooks last season as a rookie. He actually won his second-best event, the 100 fly, in 46.44, just off his season best, but was 2nd in his best event, the 200 fly, in a season best of 1:42.22. He ran into Torok, Wisconsin’s best swimmer, in that 200 fly in one of the marquee matchups of the day.
Johnson was 2nd at Big Tens in the 200 fly last season, and that was his first loss in that event this season in four tries.
The Gophers’ other two wins came from senior diver Drew Bennett, who swept the springboard events.
Wisconsin races next at the mid-season Texas Invite (swimmers) and Ohio State Invite (divers), while Minnesota will host the Minnesota Invitational in early December.
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