The Saint John's swimming and diving team competes at the four-day MIAC Championships this Wednesday-Saturday (Feb. 11-14) at the University of Minnesota's Jean Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis. – Live Results | Live Video | Tickets | Championship Website 
 
TICKET INFORMATION: All tickets will be sold and purchased online via HomeTown Ticketing. There will not be cash sales at the venue; however, spectators can purchase tickets using a computer or mobile device at any time, including while at the venue. To purchase tickets at any time, click here. 
  
"All-session" tickets will grant admission to all seven sessions of the Championships. Adult passes are $73 and student passes are $31. HomeTown Ticketing fees are included with the all-sessions pass; however, additional convenience and credit card charges will be added at checkout. Children ages five and under do not require a ticket. Those eligible for student tickets include individuals currently enrolled in an undergraduate college, high school, middle school, and elementary school. A student ID is required where applicable. 
  
Single-session tickets are also available for purchase online only. Single-session adult tickets are $12 each, while student tickets are $6. Additional convenience and credit card fees will be applied at checkout. Children ages five and under do not require a ticket. 
 
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: The four-day meet begins with the men's 3-meter diving prelims at 6 p.m. Wednesday, followed by finals at 7:30 p.m. The other three days begin with prelims at 10:30 a.m., followed by finals at 6:30 p.m. 
 
Wednesday, Feb. 11 (6 p.m./7:30 p.m.) 
-200-Yard Medley Relay 
-3-Meter Diving 
-800-Yard Freestyle Relay 
 
Thursday, Feb. 12 (10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.) 
-500-Yard Freestyle 
-200-Yard Individual Medley 
-50-Yard Freestyle 
-400-Yard Medley Relay 
 
Friday, Feb. 13 (10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.) 
-400-Yard Individual Medley 
-100-Yard Butterfly 
-200-Yard Freestyle 
-100-Yard Breaststroke 
-100-Yard Backstroke 
-1-Meter Diving 
-200-Yard Freestyle Relay 
 
Saturday, Feb. 14 (10:30 a.m./6:30 p.m.) 
-1,650-Yard Freestyle 
-200-Yard Backstroke 
-100-Yard Freestyle 
-200-Yard Breaststroke 
-200-Yard Butterfly 
-400-Yard Freestyle Relay

A LOOK AT THE JOHNNIES: A handful of Saint John's swimming student-athletes competed at Division I Minnesota's two-day First Chance Meet last weekend (Feb. 6-7). 
 
Sophomore Dylan Gaspard (Victoria, Minn./Waconia) posted a 14th-place finish in the 100-yard backstroke (1:02.24). 
 
Senior Henry Luetmer (Medina, Minn./Orono) touched the wall in 23.07 in the 50-yard freestyle for 22nd. 
 
Junior Ben Edwards (Burnsville, Minn.) competed in both the 50- (23.09) and 100-yard (50.74) freestyles, finishing 23rd in both. He was also ninth in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 57.43. 
 
The Johnnies also won 12 of the 16 events in a 157-143 victory over Carleton on Saturday, Jan. 24, in the Warner Palaestra Pool.

The Johnnies registered 20 top-three performances. Three seniors posted a total of seven individual wins, while SJU swept the diving competition against Carleton's All-American diving squad. 
 
Senior Brayden Slavik (Green Isle, Minn./Chaska) won three events, including a pool-record time of 16:10.20 in the 1,650-yard freestyle. The previous pool record was 16:23.13 set by St. Olaf's Ryan Palmer in 2000.
 
The reigning MIAC Men's Swimming Athlete of the Week was also first in the 200-yard backstroke (1:56.32) and 200-yard individual medley (1:57.65), collecting three individual event wins for the second week in a row. 
 
Slavik was also the final leg of the Johnnies' first-place, 200-yard freestyle relay (Reuter, Hovda, Schulze, Slavik) in 1:26.91. The 200-yard medley relay (Roggeman, Megaw, Reuter, Schulze) was second (1:39.38).
 
Senior Carsten Reuter (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) dominated the short sprints, finishing first in the 50- (21.92) and 100-yard (48.90) freestyles.
 
Senior Clay Megaw (Monticello, Minn.) joined his classmates with a pair of wins on Senior Day, sweeping the breaststroke events with times of 59.69 seconds (100-yard) and 2:12.90 (200-yard).
 
Junior Cody Watts (St. Cloud, Minn./Tech) topped last season's MIAC Diver of the Year, the Knights' Hans Anderson, to win the 1- (273.70) and 3-meter (238.65) dives. Sophomore Henry Hilgendorf (Owatonna, Minn.) was third on the 1-meter board (201.90), while senior Tim Rotter (Blaine, Minn.) took third in the 3-meter dive (191.70).
 
Freshman Vincent Schulze (Eden Prairie, Minn.) added another victory for the home team, touching the wall first in the 200-yard freestyle (1:47.91) and second, 0.26 of a second behind his first-place teammate Reuter, in the 100-yard version of the same stroke. 
 
Junior Trevor Barton (Buffalo, Minn.) claimed first in the 500-yard freestyle (4:57.57) and took second in the 200-yard freestyle (1:49.31).
 
Freshman Braydon Ohrtman (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) followed Barton in the 500-yard freestyle (5:01.97) for second. Sophomore Jason Jones (Monticello, Minn.) and freshman Lincoln Cochran (Helena, Mont./Capital) added a pair of third-place finishes, with Jones finishing the 100-yard breaststroke in 1:02.60 and Cochran the 200-yard individual medley in 2:06.70.

THIS WEEK
Defending His Title
Slavik is the defending MIAC Swimmer of the Year after sharing the award last winter with Gustavus Adolphus fifth-year Peyton Richardson. Slavik broke three program records, including two of his own, to win the 400-yard individual medley (4:00.12), 500-yard freestyle (4:29.49) and 1,650-yard freestyle (15:32.98) at the 2025 MIAC Championships. 
 
The titles in the 400-yard individual medley and 1,650-yard freestyle were the second-consecutive for Slavik, who also served as the first leg of the Johnnies' 800-yard freestyle relay that broke the school record with a time of 6:46.79 to win the program's first MIAC championship in the event.

Double-Digit All-MIAC
A pair of senior Johnnies, Reuter and Slavik, each have eclipsed double digit All-MIAC honors (top three at the conference meet). Reuter is an 11-time All-MIAC honoree and three-time MIAC Champion (one individual and two relay). Reuter won the 50-yard freestyle in 20.56 at last year's championship, a time that ranks second on the program all-time list behind national champion Matt Zelen '99. Slavik, meanwhile, is a six-time MIAC champion (five individual and one relay) and 10-time All-MIAC honoree.

Going the Distance
Slavik's 2025 championship time of 15:32.98 in the 1,650-yard freestyle was a meet-, SJU- and MIAC record time and cleared the NCAA B cut by nearly 18 seconds (15:50.88). It was also 10 seconds faster than the invited time from last year's NCAA Championships (15:43.03). Slavik currently ranks 10th in Division III with an NCAA B cut time of 15:43.14 in the 1,650-yard freestyle, a mark he reached at the midseason Rochester Invitational. He secured All-America honorable mention honors (places ninth-16th) – the program's first in the event – with a seventh-place time of 15:46.84, out of 14 swimmers at the 2025 NCAA Championships last March.

Rewarding Relays
The Johnnies took home first in three of five relays at the 2025 conference meet. SJU touched the wall first in the 200-yard (1:22.21), 400-yard (3:03.22) and 800-yard (6:46.79) freestyle relays. SJU finished second in the 200 medley (1:32.63) – behind Gustavus' 1:31.17 – and the 400 medley (3:23.50) – trailing GAC's 3:20.82.

Upperclassman Leadership
Sixteen returning upperclassmen combined for 227 individual points for SJU last season. In total, the group has scored 530 points in their careers. Reuter, Slavik and Watts earned five All-MIAC honors and four championships. Reuter, Slavik and Megaw all swam on at least one of SJU's five All-MIAC relays. Megaw finished sixth in the 100-yard breaststroke (58.34) and ninth in the 200-yard version (2:10.58) at the 2025 conference meet. He currently owns the fourth fastest times in SJU history in both events.  
 
Freshman Points
A trio of sophomores scored points for SJU at the MIAC Championships as freshmen in 2025. Riley Yerks (Hutchinson, Minn.) took 11th in the 200-yard backstroke (2:02.59) for six points. Jones combined for 13 total, taking seventh in the 200-yard breaststroke (2:12.99), 12th in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:00.37) and 16th in the 200-yard individual medley (2:02.90). Krotzer scored eight, four each in the 1- (175.45) and 3-meter (236.05) dives.

More Rankings
In addition to Slavik's top-10 time in the 1,650-yard freestyle, he also sits 11th in the 500-yard freestyle with an NCAA B cut of 4:30.15 and 12th in the 1,000-yard freestyle with an NCAA B cut of 9:30.13. Only one other MIAC swimmer is ranked in the top 50 – Gustavus' Braden Ripken in the 50-yard breaststroke (14th). Both the 1,000-yard freestyle and 50-yard breaststroke are non-MIAC Championship events. 

Diving Prowess
Watts claimed third in the 1-meter dive for the second-straight season at last year's MIAC meet. He qualified for the NCAA Regional with his 1-meter performances against St. Cloud State (279.35) and 432.25 against GAC in last January. He finished 10th in the 1-meter dive (392.50) and 15th on the 3-meter board (361.95). Watts has already qualified for this year's regional, most recently with an 11-dive 496.85 on the 1-meter board at Gustavus. 

Athletes of the Week
Three Johnnies have combined to win 11 MIAC weekly awards this season. A Johnnie has been named either the Swimmer or Diver of the Week in all but two weeks of the 2025-26 season. Slavik has won six MIAC Swimmer of the Week honors and 12 in his career, while Watts collected four Diver of the Week awards and six in his three-year career. Hilgendorf also earned his first weekly award on Feb. 3 of this season.

IN THE MIAC: The Johnnies enter the MIAC Championships with 31 top-10 scores/times in the conference this season, including seven in the top slot (five by Slavik, one each by Reuter and Watts).

50-Yard Freestyle
1. Carsten Reuter, 21.11
t8. Vincent Schulze, 21.71

100-Yard Freestyle
1. Brayden Slavik, 46.92
2. Carsten Reuter, 47.05

200-Yard Freestyle
4. Vincent Schulze, 1:45.55
5. Brayden Slavik, 1:46.06
6. Carsten Reuter, 1:46.27

500-Yard Freestyle
1. Brayden Slavik, 4:30.15
8. Trevor Barton, 4:52.39

1,000-Yard Freestyle
1. Brayden Slavik, 9:30.13
9. Trevor Barton, 10:28.81

1,650-Yard Freestyle
1. Brayden Slavik, 15:43.14
7. Trevor Barton, 17:15.02

50-Yard Backstroke
5. Brayden Slavik, 24.83

100-Yard Backstroke
4. Brayden Slavik, 52.23

200-Yard Backstroke
4. Brayden Slavik, 1:56.32

50-Yard Breaststroke
3. Clay Megaw, 27.48

100-Yard Breaststroke
6. Clay Megaw, 59.69

200-Yard Breaststroke
6. Clay Megaw, 2:12.74
8. Lincoln Cochran, 2:14.27

200-Yard Individual Medley
4. Brayden Slavik, 1:58.25

400-Yard Individual Medley
1. Brayden Slavik, 4:04.88
6. Lincoln Cochran, 4:18.11

1-Meter Dive (6 Dives)
1. Cody Watts, 281.60
3. Henry Hilgendorf, 227.20
4. Tim Rotter, 216.50
8. Nate Krotzer, 132.05

3-Meter Dive (6 Dives)
2. Cody Watts, 327.40
3. Henry Hilgendorf, 312.00
4. Tim Rotter, 300.15
8. Nate Krotzer, 151.90