Nebraska Women and Omaha Men Earn Wins in Double Dual with South Dakota State

Nebraska vs South Dakota State vs Omaha

• October 3, 2025
• Lincoln, Nebraska
• SCY (25 Yards)
• Full Meet Results
• Team Scores:
  • Women
    • Nebraska 223 – 77 South Dakota State
    • Nebraska 217 – 83 Nebraska–Omaha
    • Nebraska–Omaha 217 – 83 South Dakota State

The University of Nebraska women earned victories in both dual meets over South Dakota State and Nebraska–Omaha, while the Omaha men walked home with a win vs South Dakota State.

Women’s Meet Recap

The Nebraska Cornhuskers won all but one event on the women’s side, partially thanks to senior Gena Jorgenson walking home with three individual event and one relay win.

Jorgenson finished 6th at the NCAA Championships in the 1650 free last season and went on to swim the event at the WUGs over the summer, finishing with a silver medal. She is picking up where she left off, winning the 1000 free, 200 backstroke and 200 IM events over the weekend.

She swam 10:03.42 in the 1000 to touch more than 20 seconds ahead of teammate Alaira Hadford who swam 10:29.13 to finish 2nd overall. In the 200 back, she swam 2:02.96 for the win by a little over three seconds. Both these times were just off the 10:02.71 and 2:01.53 she swam at this same meet last season. She did not swim the 200 IM last year, but she won this year’s event in 2:06.76 to beat teammate Marissa Laurin’s 2:08.17 by a second-and-a-half.

Laurin took Jorgenson’s spot in the 500 free, swimming 5:03.89 to beat 200 free champion Riley Miklos’s time of 5:06.51. Miklos did not finish the meet empy handed, though, she just untouched Guilia Marchi in the 200 free, swimming 1:52.28 to Marchi’s 1:52.89 for the win.

Marchi finished 2nd in the 100 freestyle to the winner of the other two freestyle events, Beatrix Tanko. She also swam on the two winning relays for Nebraska. She started the day with a win in the 50 freestyle, swimming 23.24 to win by half a second over Nebraska teammate Natalie Dunaway’s 23.97. In the 100 free, she swam 51.35 to lead Marchi’s 52.68.

The 200 medley relay went to the Nebraska team of Virginia Consiglia (26.33), Amelia Riggott (28.31), Beatrix Tanko (24.50), Natalie Dunaway (23.17) in 1:42.31, four seconds ahead of Omaha’s time of 1:46.79.

Consiglia and Riggott both won the 100s of their strokes as well with Consiglio swimming 56.72 in the 100 back and Riggott swimming 1:04.46 in the 100 breast.

The 400 freestyle relay was a similar story with Giulia Marchi (52.78), Riley Miklos (52.65), Gena Jorgenson (51.97), Beatrix Tanko (50.65) swimming 3:28.05 to win by almost three seconds.

The other individual event winners were Aurora Zanin who won the 200 fly for the Cornhuskers in 2:05.18, and Abigail Baxter who won both individual diving events.

The Nebraska–Omaha women also had a strong showing, racking up numerous top three finishes over the course of the meet, and two event wins.

Addisyn Storms took first in the women’s 200 breaststroke with her time of 2:21.19 to win the first Omaha event of the meet. She came in more than two seconds ahead of Nebraska’s Katy Zboinski’s 2:23.44. Storms also finished 2nd in the 100 breaststroke, touching in 1:05.17.

Directly after that swim, Julia Thomas won the 100 fly with her time of 56.76 coming in more than half-a-second ahead of South Dakota State’s Jenna Currier in 2nd. Omaha teammate Catalina Kahan finished 3rd in 57.34.

Mia Jacobs and Kate Novinksi finished 2nd and 3rd in the 200 backstroke swimming 2:06.13 and 2:06.93 respectively.

South Dakota State saw Gigi Hioki walk home with two 3rd place finishes in the 200 free (1:53.62) and 100 free (52.78) to join Jenna Currier’s 100 fly top three swim.

Men’s Recap

The men’s meet was a single dual between the Omaha Mavericks and the South Dakota State Jackrabbits since Nebraska doesn’t have a men’s team. Omaha came out on top, scoring 168 points to South Dakota State’s 133.

The meet started with a win from the Omaha men in the 200 medley relay. Stefan Varga (22.99), Gabe Cusanelli (25.69), Jace Walker (22.38), Grant Schaeffer (20.56) swimming 1:31.62.

The  Mavericks went on to win five more events and tie for first in one of them. Varga won the 100 backstroke in 51.08 and the 200 backstroke in 1:53.50. To be the only two event winner for the team.

Kyle Kulow won the 200 freestyle in 1:41.84, coming in two seconds ahead of South Dakota State’s Zavier Kranz who swam 1:43.41.

Mason Zadina and Michael Johnson split the sprint freestyle events with Zadina taking the 50 freestyle in 21.02 and Johnson winning the 100 in 46.41.

Omaha also won the 400 freestyle relay with Jace Walker (47.63), Michael Johnson (45.56), Grant Schaeffer (46.35), Aidin Kolb (46.65) swimming 3:06.19 to beat the Omaha ‘B’ team’s time of 3:07.71.

The Mavericks also had Ben Bryzelak who tied for 1st in the men’s 200 butterfly with South Dakota State’s Braxton McGrath. The pair swam 1:56.25 to come in two tenths ahead of South Dakotan swimmer Bryan Wong.

McGrath also won the men’s 100 fly, swimming 51.31 to make it a partial butterfly sweep for the Jackrabbits.

Distance freestyler Luke Watkins swept the distance free events, taking the the 1000 free in 9:47.92 and the 500 free in 4:44.54.

The Jackrabbits won both breaststroke events with David Bosch swimming 56.74 in the 100 to be the only swimmer under 57 in the event and Cody Vertin winning the 200 breast in 2:04.24.

Vertin also won the last individual event of the meet, the 400 IM, which they swam while the women swam the 200 IM. Vertin swam 4:06.44 to win the event by nearly four seconds over teammate Evan Schott.