Wisconsin Wins Commanding Victory Over UW – Green Bay to Start 2025-26 Season

Wisconsin Vs UW – Green Bay

• September, 26, 2025
• Madison, WI
• SCY (25 Yards)
• Full Meet Results
• Team Scores
  • Women: Wisconsin 219 – 75 UW Green Bay
  • Men: Wisconsin 206 – 60 UW Green Bay

The Badgers had a strong showing in their first meet of the season, swimming the fastest times in every event against the UW – Green Bay Phoenixes on Friday.

Women’s Meet Recap

The Badger women were led by sisters Maggie and Abby Wanezek, who swept their events and both swam on Badger relays.

The sisters started the meet by helping Wisconsin to a victory in the 200 medley relay. Maggie Wanezek led the team off in 24.43 on the backstroke. She was followed by Hazal Ozkan on the breast, splitting 28.39, and Hailey Tierney on the fly (at 24.25). Abby Wanezek brought the team home in 22.42, the fastest freestyle split in the field by almost a second.

Abby went on to win the 200 freestyle in 1:48.46 to be the only swimmer in the event under 1:50, as runner-up Blair Stoneburg touched in 1:50.00 for Wisconsin. Wanezek has only been faster than this twice, at the 2024 Texas Hall of Fame Invitational and the 2025 Big Ten Championships.

She also won the 100 freestyle in 50.19, again the fastest time in the event by more than a second with Wisconsin teammate Arianna Zelen touching 2nd in 51.31. Again, this time was faster than she has ever started the season before. Last year at this meet, she swam 51.08, and she ended the season at 48.00

Maggie also won both of her individual events, sweeping the backstrokes. In the 100, she swam 52.80 to come in nearly four seconds ahead of teammate Lily Van Heel in 2nd. In the 200, she touched in 1:55.28, winning by more than seven seconds. Her 200 back time was also more than a second faster than the 1:56.54 she opened the season with last year.

Hailey Tierney also won both of her events, taking the top spot in the 50 free at 23.19 and the 100 fly at 55.33. These were both in line with where she started last season.

Wisconsin made their whole team exhibition for the final two events, but sophomore Stella Chapman would have won the 200 fly and 200 IM if she was a scoring swimmer. She won the 200 fly in 2:00.28, just a tenth slower than the 2:00.16 she swam in the 200 IM to set the fastest time of the day.

The Wisconsin 200 freestyle relay was also the fastest with A. Wanezek (23.31), Tierney (22.90), Kit Schneider (23.69), and Blair Stoneburg (23.44) swimming 1:33.34.

Green Bay’s Samantha Pepevnik won the 200 IM in 2:14.49, about three seconds faster than the 2:17.01 she went in October of last year. She also swam the 200 backstroke, finishing 6th in 2:10.28.

The Green Bay women also took home the win in the 200 freestyle relay with the team of McKenna Metropulos (25.55), Ella Gorski (25.46), Sara Lindner (25.48), and Emily Allen (25.25) swimming 1:41.74.

Metropulos also swam the individual 50 free, touching in 24.77 to finish 2nd overall behind Wisconsin’s Tierney.

Both diving events went to Wisconsin with Julia Herring taking the 1-meter in 282.45 and Ryane Neal winning the 3-meter in 269.25.

Other Event Winners:

• 1000 free: Maddie Waggoner (WISC)- 10:14.94
• 100 breast: Brooke Corrigan (WISC)- 1:01.53
• 200 breast: Bridget McGann (WISC)- 2:14.32
• 500 free: Blair Stoneburg (WISC)- 4:53.37

Men’s Recap

The Wisconsin men also won every event except for the last two, which they swam exhibition.

Senior Yoav Romano swept both distance events, swimming 9:15.62 in the 1000 free and 4:25.11 in the 500 free to win both by nearly five seconds.

Luukas Vainio won the 50 and 100 freestyles, swimming 44.29 and 1:37.44 respectively to come just off his best times of 43.82 and 1:34.23.

The other two event “winner” for the Badgers was senior diver Jan Lanser who scored 303.52 and 361.43 on the boards, though he was the only athlete in both events.

Just like the women’s meet, Dominik Mark Torok would have won both of his events, swimming 1:50.39 in the 200 IM where he was a nonscoring swimmer. He also swam the 200 fly, touching in 1:46.47

The Badgers also set the fastest times on both relays. They won the 200 medley relay with Nathan Welker (24.21), Ben Wiegand (24.21), Charlie Jones (21.43), and Taiko Torepe-Ormsby (19.79) swimming 1:28.07 to win by more than two seconds over their ‘B’ relay’s time of 1:30.64.

The 200 freestyle relay of Ben Wiegand (20.21), Taiko Torepe-Ormsby (20.26), Cooper Scharff (20.02), and Enzo Solitario (20.69) also had the fastest time, coming in at 1:23.01.

Green Bay’s Quinlan Schroeder was the only Green Bay swimmer in the 200 IM, and he won the event in 2:07.29. He also finished 6th in the 100 breast in 58.91 as the only Green Bay swimmer under 1:00 in the event.

Other Event Winners:

• 100 back: Nathan Welker (WISC)- 48.95
• 100 breast: Ben Wiegand (WISC)- 54.45
• 50 free: Taiko Torepe-Ormsby (WISC)- 20.23
• 200 back: Adam Graham (WISC)- 1:48.64
• 200 breast: Nate Harris (WISC)- 2:05.57
• 100 fly: Charlie Jones (WISC)- 48.95