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Day 2 Results
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The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater men's and women's swimming and diving teams combined for 18 all-conference honors, including two titles, on the second day of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships (Presented by Culver's) at Schroeder Aquatic Center in Brown Deer.
 
The men and women both sit in third place heading into the final day of competition. The women have collected 390.50 points while the men have earned 381 points.
 
Senior Renata Schlomann (New Berlin, Wis./Divine Savior Holy Angels) won the 100-yard backstroke for the second year in a row. Her time of 56.45 broke her previous school record and was good for an NCAA "B" cut. 
 
Fellow senior Meredith Gustafson (Brookfield, Wis./East) collected her second career individual conference title in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:41.52.
 
Also in the 400 IM, Anna Yeazel (Whitewater, Wis./Whitewater), Abby Thompson (De Pere, Wis./De Pere) and Shayna Putney (New Berlin, Wis./Eisenhower) went 6-7-8 to fill up half of the podium with Gustafson. Yeazel finished the race in 4:51.11 and Thompson touched the wall at 4:55.21, just before Putney's final time of 4:55.25.
 
Junior Olivia Theobald (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) and freshman Savana Bitz (Grey Eagle, Minn./Melrose Area) finished fifth and seventh in the 200-yard freestyle. Theobald finished the race at the 1:56.70 mark and Bitz touched the wall at 1:58.69.
 
Freshman Leanne Stigler (Beloit, Wis./Muskego) earned her second medal of the meet by placing fifth in the 100-yard breaststroke in a time of 1:08.43. 
 
Senior Bailey Weston (Fort Atkinson, Wis./Fort Atkinson) and freshman Emily Rundahl (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) joined Bitz and Theobald to finish second in the 800-yard freestyle relay in a time of 7:50.64.
 
On the men's side, juniors Zach Noll (Peoria, Ill./Dunlap) and Tyler Chatterton (Kenosha, Wis./Tremper) finished 2-3 in the 400-yard individual medley. Noll finished in 4:04.58 and Chatterton touched the wall in 4:06.41.
 
Freshman Joe Wenszell (Milwaukee, Wis./Wisconsin Virtual Learning) collected his first individual WIAC medal in the 100-yard butterfly. His time of 51.56 was good for fifth place.
 
Three men placed among the top eight in the 200-yard freestyle, including junior Nick Jelich (Milwaukee, Wis./Marquette University HS) who finished third in 1:43.03. Junior Jake Herlache (West Bend, Wis./Grafton) was just behind in fourth with a time of 1:43.26 and sophomore Tristan Whiting (Hayden, Idaho/Coeur d'Alene Charter Academy) finished in eighth with his time of 1:45.94.
 
Sophomore Tyler Popke (Sun Prairie, Wis./Sun Prairie) finished sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke with a 58.81. Sophomore Zach Miller (Saukville, Wis./Port Washington) posted a 52.95 finish in the 100-yard backstroke, good for seventh place.
 
Jelich, Whiting, Chatterton and Herlache garnered All-WIAC accolades with their runner-up finish in the 800-yard freestyle relay with a time of 6:59.94.
 
Action resumes Saturday with preliminaries at 10 a.m. and finals at 6 p.m.