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Katie Shaw

Pointers Earn Personal-Best Times in Season Opener Against Green Bay

10/23/2026 9:12:00 PM

STEVENS POINT, Wis.—The UW-Stevens Point men's and women's swimming and diving teams opened the season at home, facing Division I Green Bay. The Pointer men fell 97 to Green Bay's 144 and women fell 55 to the Phoenix's 179.
 
Results
 
The Pointer men recorded event wins from Camden Barwick (Weston, Wis./D.C. Everest) in the 50-free, Szymon Kurdziel (Bartlett, Ill./Bartlett) in the 100-back and River Reeves (Wautoma, Wis./Oshkosh North) in 1-meter diving. Barwick won the 50-free in 21.19 and later teamed with Shawn Denis (Rhinelander, Wis./Rhinelander), Ben Mattson (Naperville, Ill./Central) and Ruslan Bayuk (Eagan, Minn./Two Rivers) to take the 200-free relay in 1:25.78. Kurdziel won the 100-back in 53.48 and Reeves on 1-meter diving with a score of 237.75.
 
The Pointer women, Katie Shaw (Madison, Wis./West), Anna Dart (Middleton, Wis./Middleton), Avery Lowe (Rogers, Minn./Buffalo) and Hannah King (Rockford, Ill./Guilford), opened the dual with the program's fastest 200-medley relay time in the opening meet since 2015; with a time of 1:53.72.
 
Dart was second in the 50-free in 25.01, Shaw took second in the 100-free in 56.77 and Lowe placed second in the 100-back in 1:03.01. The women's 200-free relay of King, Lowe, Bailey Vincer (Byron, Ill./Byron) and Hollyn Ambre (Batavia, Ill./Batavia) finished second in 1:43.97.
 
Pointers return to the pool tomorrow (Oct. 24) in St. Peter, Minn. for the Gustavus/Minnesota State Tri beginning at 1:00 p.m.
 
Pointer Bests:
  • Shawn Denis (Rhinelander, Wis./Rhinelander)- 200-free, 1:49.83; 100-back, 54.34
  • Ben Mattson (Naperville, Ill./Central)- 50-free, 22.61
  • Dylan Snelling (Fitchburg, Wis./Madison West)- 100-back, 1:03.25
  • Ruslan Bayuk (Eagan, Minn./Two Rivers)- 100-breast, 58.87
  • Samuel Douglas (Menomonee Falls, Wis./Menomonee Falls)- 100-breast, 1:08.46; 500-free, 5:10.35
  • Ivy Stevens (Cambridge, Wis./Cambridge)- 100-breast, 1:20:65; 200-free, 2:14.70
  • Gavin Schick (Greenfield, Wis./Greenfield)- 200-IM, 2:06.33
  • Ian Chong (Apple Valley, Minn./Eagan)- 200-IM, 2:14.04
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