Swim and Dive Travels to 2026 Big Ten Championships

After a successful 2025-26 regular season, the Nebraska swimming and diving team heads to Minneapolis, Minn., to compete in the Big Ten Championships. The event will run from Wednesday, Feb. 18, to Saturday, Feb. 21. 

Preliminary rounds for each individual event will be held in the morning, and finals will resume in the afternoon. The 200 medley relay and 800 free relay on Wednesday are slated to begin at 4 p.m. (CT). 

Action continues on Thursday, Feb. 19 at 10 a.m. (CT) with preliminary swims before finals at 5:30 p.m. (CT). The competition continues on Friday and Saturday with similar schedules and live video will be available all four days to B1G+ subscribers. Live results will be available through Huskers.com. 

The Big Red swimmers and divers posted a 7-2 dual record, going undefeated at the Devaney Center. At last season's Big Ten Championships, the Huskers finished in 10th place out of 14 teams, scoring 344 points. 

Beatrix Tanko has led Nebraska with record-setting performances. The third-year swimmer from Budapest, Hungary, posted three of the fastest times during the 2025 Hawkeye Invitational. Picking up a pair of second-place positions, Tanko swam a 22.17 in the 50 free and a 48.75 in the 100 free. She also produced a gold-medal-worthy performance in the 100 fly, where she hit the wall in 52.03.  

Two-time All-American Gena Jorgenson has continued to add to her impressive swimming resume. Recently, in a dual meet against Rutgers, Jorgenson swam the third-fastest time in NU history in the 200 back, posting a first-place time of 1:57.13. Jorgenson earned top-six finishes in the 1,650 freestyle in each of the past three years at the conference championships. 

Newcomer Aurora Zanin has added depth to the 200 butterfly, where she’s accumulated seven first-place finishes during the year. The transfer from Indian River State College highlighted the season in her 200 fly swim against Kansas, where her 1:58.00 was enough for the seventh-fastest time in school history. 

Riley Miklos, a sophomore from Richmond, Va., has assisted NU’s dominance in distance efforts. Setting three career bests this season alone, Miklos has accumulated 21 top-five finishes, 13 of which were top-three. At the Hawkeye Invitational, Miklos captured her career-best swim in the 500 free during the event prelims, where she garnered a 4:48.04 and a third-place finish. 

Qualifying for Zone D Championships for the second time this season, Abby Baxter recorded a career-best score on the three-meter board early in the season. In a dual against Iowa State, Baxter accrued a score of 346.10 and hit a zone-qualifying standard. On the one-meter board, she secured a zone-qualifying score in the same meet with a 318.35, first-place finish. 

Kelsey Clairmont could be a factor in the diving well with her efforts on the platform dive. The senior took first in a double-dual format against Iowa and Illinois with a score of 259.00, but set a season best in the Hawkeye Invite finals with a second-place score of 267.80.  

Efforts in the 800 freestyle relay helped a team of Jorgenson, Tanko, Miklos, and Giulia Marchi to a school record at the midseason invite. On top of a team win at the Hawkeye Invite, the team earned a first-place finish and its first NCAA provisional cut in the event since 1990, clocking 7:04.78. The same team recorded the third-best time in the 400 free relay just a few days later, taking second with 1:39.46. 

Nebraska will compete against some of the best in the country, including six Big Ten teams ranked in the CSCAA Top 25. Leading the pack is No. 4 Michigan and No. 6 Indiana. 

Big Ten Championships
Minneapolis, Minn. (Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center)
February 18-21, 2026

Order of Events
Wednesday, Feb. 18
200 Medley Relay
800 Freestyle Relay

Thursday, Feb. 19
100 Butterfly
400 IM
200 Freestyle
100 Breaststroke
200 Freestyle Relay
One-Meter Diving

Friday, Feb. 20
100 Backstroke
200 Breaststroke
500 Freestyle
50 Freestyle
400 Medley Relay
Three-Meter Diving

Saturday, Feb. 21
200 IM
100 Freestyle
200 Butterfly
200 Backstroke
400 Freestyle Relay
Platform Diving