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"The Nebraska swimming and diving team closed the Hawkeye Invitational in Iowa City, Iowa, with a total of 1,281.5 points to notch its fourth consecutive invite title.
Beatrix Tanko set her
third consecutive school record on the final day of competition at the Hawkeye Invite. The
second-place finish, with a time of 48.75 in the 100 freestyle, earned the Hungarian National Champion the title of the
fastest swimmer in Nebraska history in the event. She previously held the fifth-fastest time with a 49.21, which she had set in a meet against the Kansas Jayhawks on November 7, 2025.
The 200 backstroke presented
Virginia Consiglio with a 1:56.65, a
second-place swim and the second-fastest time for the Big Red. The sophomore surpassed
Anna McDonald on the record list from her swim in 2017 where she logged a 1:57.21. In addition,
Riley Miklos (fifth, 49.91),
Giulia Marchi (ninth, 50.05) and
Natalie Dunaway (27th, 51.34) logged
personal bests in the event.
The 1,650 freestyle race brought great success for the Huskers at the invite. In her final year,
Gena Jorgenson notched a 16:00.61,
first-place finish in the event. Jorgenson still holds the
fastest 1,650 freestyle time in the NCAA, surpassing her previous NCAA-best 16:10.04 swim on Nov. 7. In addition to Jorgenson,
Riley Miklos notched a fifth-place finish, 16:40.88 and freshman
Alaira Hadford grabbed a sixth-place, 16:42.01 finish.
Aurora Zanin completed the 200 fly in 1:59.57, enough to earn a
first-place finish. Jamyn Lunn and
Jenna Brown added
career-best swims in the event. Lunn, a sophomore out of Brookings, S.D. replaced her 2:00.80 swim from the 2025 Big Ten Championships with a 2:00.36. Brown touched the wall at 2:01.83 to nab a tenth-place finish. "
Tanko, Marchi, Miklos, and Jorgenson earned a runner-up finish in the invitational's concluding event, the 400-meter relay. Their 3:18.35 performance stands as the
third-fastest time in Big Red records.
Kelsey Clairmont led the platform diving charge for the Big Red with her
second-place finish in the well. The senior from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, combined for 267.80 points after a 261.30,
first-place showing in prelims.
Frankie Webb ended in sixth place with 234.10 points. She notched a career-best performance on the platform from her second-place prelim showing of 240.25 points.
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Beatrix Tanko put up a s
chool record-setting time in the 50 freestyle race with a time of 22.17. The Hungarian swimmer previously held the second-fastest time for the Big Red with a time of 22.47.
Gena Jorgenson led the efforts in the 500 free with a
first-place finish in the finals through a time of 4:40.29, just shy of her record-setting career best of 4:39.31. Second-year swimmer
Riley Miklos added a fourth-place finish in the finals round of the event and recorded a third-place
personal best in the prelims with a time of 4:50.87.
Several other Huskers recorded
career-best performances in the 500 free:
Jazmyn Lunn (4:51.24),
Alaira Hadford (4:54.38),
Aurora Zanin (4:56.48), and
Jenna Brown (4:55.89). Notably, Marchi captured a sixth-place finish in 4:52.16.
Marissa Laurin, a sophomore from Alberta, Canada, harnessed a
career time in the 200 IM with a finals time of 2:01.43 and a sixth-place finish.
Sophie Kissuk, a fellow Canadian, recorded the
next-best time for the Big Red with a 2:02.14 swim to finish in tenth. "
Beatrix Tanko recorded her
second school record of the meet with her swim in the 100 butterfly with a 52.03. Last year at the 2025 Big Ten Championships, Tanko logged a 52.72 in the event, surpassing
Anna Vlachou's previous time of 52.63.
Jazmyn Lunn, a sophomore from Brookings, S.D. garnered a
career-best in the 200 free with her swim in the C finals. She added a 20th-place, 1:50.36 finish,
crushing her personal best by just over five seconds.
The two-time All-American,
Gena Jorgenson recorded a
second-place finish in the 400 IM with a time of 4:14.20. She earlier grabbed a time of 4:15.19 during the event’s prelims, enough to earn a first-place position. Jorgenson also swam in the 200 free, where she nabbed a
career-best with her fourth-place, 1:47.64 swim.
Newcomer
Aurora Zanin added a top-five performance in the 400 IM. The Vittorio Veneto, Italy native notched a 4:19.71, enough to earn a fifth-place finish. Also in her second year,
Riley Miklos mustered a
lifetime-best performance in the 200 freestyle event with a 1:47.80, fifth-place swim. "
