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Lindsey Schlegel, who had originally committed to Wisconsin-Green Bay, has flipped her commitment to Wisconsin for 2026-27. Schlegel confirmed the decision in an email to SwimSwam, and on Instagram, writing:
I’m SO excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my education and swim at UW-Madison!
Thank you to all the coaching staff at Wisconsin for this amazing opportunity. Additionally, thank you to everyone who has supported me throughout my recruiting journey. On, Wisconsin!
Top SCY Times:
- 50 Freestyle: 23.13
- 100 Freestyle: 51.03
- 200 Freestyle: 1:53.26
Schlegel trains year-round with the Waukesha Express Swim Team and attends Muskego High School. She specializes in sprint freestyle, with her primary events being the 50 and 100, though she also competes in the 200.
When SwimSwam reported her commitment to UW-Green Bay, she owned best times of 23.50 and 51.86 in the 50/100 freestyles. Since then, she has lowered her best times to 23.13 and 51.03, while her 200 free PB remains 1:53.26.
Schlegel set those new lifetime bests at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) Division 1 State Championships a few weeks ago, where she touched second in the 50 free and fourth in the 100 free. Additionally, she helped Muskego to runner-up finishes in both the 200 and 400 free relays, producing leadoff splits of 23.55 and 51.53.
Those results represent her strongest showing at the state meet, improving upon fifth and seventh in 2024, when she also contributed to second-place finishes in the 200 medley relay and 400 free relay. As a sophomore in 2023, she took sixth and 14th individually and helped her team to fifth in the 200 free relay and ninth in the 400 free relay. As a freshman, she was a relay-only swimmer.
Beyond the state meet, Schlegel is a three-time WIAA Sectional 5 champion in the 50 free and a two-time winner in the 100 free.
Schlegel qualified for her first long course Futures meet this past summer and posted lifetime bests across the board. She placed 22nd in the 50 free (26.93), 84th in the 100 free (1:00.47), and 54th in the 200 free (2:11.31). Additionally, she helped WEST win bronze medals in both free relays, leading off the 400 in a personal-best 57.74 and anchoring the 200 in 26.16.
A Division I program in the Big Ten Conference, the Badger women placed fourth out of 14 teams at the 2025 conference meet before going on to finish 12th at the NCAA Championships. Dr. Jack Brown now leads the Wisconsin program, having taken over in May after seven-year head coach Yuri Suguiyama departed to work for USA Swimming.
The conference meet scores ‘A,’ ‘B,’ and ‘C’ finals, and it took times of 22.55, 49.60, 1:47.11 in the freestyle events to make the top 24 last season.
According to the team’s 2024-25 depth chart, Schlegel would have ranked fifth in the 50 free, 10th in the 100 free, and 13th in the 200 free. With two of the four swimmers ahead of her in the 50 free set to graduate, she’s positioned to be an immediate factor on the Badgers’ 200 free relay. She will overlap one season with the team’s best sprinter, Hailey Tierney (21.76/48.52), as she acclimates to the collegiate system.
Schlegel becomes part of a deep and versatile Badgers’ class of 2030. The group includes fellow sprinter Caroline Wanezek (23.5/50.4), flyers Taryn Weatherhead and Vivian Moulson, breast/IM specialists Lilla Wilbur and Annika Curran, middle-distance specialist Ainsley Stephan, and distance freestyler Ellie Kayser.
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death to mid-majors
going from swimming at a conference finals to finishing out of the top 100 at the B1G championships.
Everyone wants something different. Who’s to say she can’t get a lot better and final at Big10s also.
Switching college commitments is unprofessional. A verbal (or signed NLI) should be treated like a marriage vow, once given, it’s binding. Flipping schools shows a lack of integrity and follow-through. Future employers will see this article and rightly question whether Lindsey will honor contracts or jump ship when a “better offer” appears. Commitment means something. Hers clearly doesn’t.
These kids are making decisions that are meant to be four-years long and cost potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars.She has ever right to change her mind if things don’t feel right, especially since it was only a verbal commitment.
ok boomer
Reneging on job offers is pretty common nowadays too