Completed Event: Swimming and Diving versus Nebraska on October 11, 2025 , Loss , 103, to, 197
Final
Swimming and Diving
103
Nebraska
197
Iowa State University Athletics
Iowa State Shows Early Strength on Day One of Hawkeye Invitational
11.18.2025 | Swimming and Diving
IOWA CITY, Iowa – Iowa State opened day one of the Hawkeye Invitational on Tuesday with strong relay performances, steady diving results, and two standout breaststroke swims in time trials to close out the night. The Cyclones sit eighth after the opening three events but put together several strong performances as the meet gets underway.
Head coach Matt Leach said he was pleased with the team's production and the way the Cyclones handled the first finals session.
"Tonight was a good steppingstone for us in our first session of a long week of racing, and each of our events were solid for us. I was looking at where were last year, and our freshman and sophomores heavily dominated some of our relays tonight, so overall I was very pleased with the times that we posted."
How It Happened
Iowa State opened the night with one scoring relay in the 200 medley, with the A-team of Lili Neisser, Anja Peck, Kendall Mallers and Grace Swoboda finishing with a time of 1:42.38, earning 11th overall. The B-relay of Emma Kuhn, Matilde Geromin, Keirlyn Mullica and Piper Hagen followed closely behind in 1:43.03. Both relays had solid starts, with Swoboda and Hagen closing strong on the anchor legs. The C-relay (1:45.29) also landed inside the top 25.
On the boards, the Cyclones A-relay team finished second with a score of 286.80, while the B-relay finished fifth, scoring 251.70.
Iowa State's A-relay in the 800 freestyle relay (Corinne Guist, Piper Hagen, Carlotta Gazzola Keirlyn Mullica) earned 12th with a time of 7:28.71. Gazzola's third-leg 200 split helped keep ISU in the race, and Hagen continued her strong relay performance after anchoring the 200 medley relay earlier in the session.
The final swim of the night came after the official events wrapped up. In the 200 breaststroke time trial, Anja Peck swam a 2:13.24, making her the number two overall performer, with the third best overall time, both in Iowa State program history. In the same event, freshman Matilde Geromin swam a 2:16.27, putting her 14th on the overall top performers list and fifth on the overall freshman list in Iowa State program history.
After three events, the Cyclones stand in eighth place with 44 points, just behind UConn and within range of Iowa, Kansas, and Illinois as the meet heads into full prelim-final action tomorrow.
On Deck
Day two begins Wednesday with prelims at 10 a.m. and finals at 5 p.m. The Cyclones will see their first individual events of the meet, including the 500 free, 200 IM, and 50 free.
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