23.5/51.8 Freestyler Lindsey Schlegel Sends Verbal To Wisconsin–Green Bay For Fall 2026

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Freestyler Lindsey Schlegel, a local of Muskego, Wisconsin, has dedicated to swim and examine on the College of Wisconsin–Inexperienced Bay starting within the 2026–2027 college 12 months. She trains year-round with the Waukesha Categorical Swim Staff and attends Muskego Excessive College.

She confirmed the dedication in an e mail to SwimSwam, and supplied the next quote:

I’m so excited to announce my verbal dedication to proceed my training and swim Division 1 on the College of Wisconsin-Inexperienced Bay! First, I wish to thank God, as a result of with out Him, I wouldn’t have achieved this objective. Subsequent, thanks to my coaches on Categorical and Muskego for believing in me and getting me up to now in my athletic profession. Moreover, thanks to all of the teaching employees at UWGB for giving me this chance! Lastly, thanks to my pals, household, and teammates for supporting me all through my total swimming journey. Go Phoenix!

Schlegel’s goal meets of the final highschool season have been the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Affiliation (WIAA) Division 1 Sectional 5 meet and the WIAA Women Division 1 State Championships, each held per week aside in early November.

At Sectionals, Schlegel walked away with 4 gold medals round her neck. She tackled the 50 free (23.59) and 100 free (52.13) individually, with each occasions checking in as new profession bests. She additionally anchored Muskego’s successful 200 medley relay in 23.19 in addition to led off their first-place 400 free relay in 52.57.

Schlegel’s momentum continued into the State Championships, the place she completed within the high eight of all 4 of those self same occasions. She notched 23.50 en path to fifth and one other finest time within the 50 free, whereas she broke 52 for the primary time in 51.86 to seize seventh. She anchored the second-place medley relay in the very same time she did at Sectionals, 23.19, earlier than producing one other sub-52 effort of 51.94 main off the silver medal-winning 400 free relay.

She concluded her season on the NCSA Spring Championships in March, the place she hit the wall fiftieth within the 50 free (23.93), 107th within the 100 free (53.09), one hundred and thirtieth within the 200 free (1:56.86), and 219th within the 100 again (1:02.88). She was as soon as once more sturdy on relays, splitting 23.35 on the Tenth-place 200 free relay, 23.84 on the Thirty fifth-place 200 medley relay, 53.62 on the Thirty eighth-place 400 medley relay, 52.57 main off the Twelfth-place 400 free relay, and a PB of 1:53.26 main off the Tenth-place 800 free relay.

High SCY Occasions:

50 Freestyle: 23.50
100 Freestyle: 51.86
200 Freestyle: 1:53.26

Alex Lewis took the helm of the UWGB program in November 2021. He was in a position to rent a full-time assistant coach and a graduate assistant final season; within the first three years of his tenure as head coach, it was simply him and a diving coach.

The UWGB girls took sixth out of six groups eventually 12 months’s Horizon League Championships. A 12 months prior, they completed final within the convention as nicely.

The convention meet scores ‘A’ and ‘B’ finals, and Schlegel’s finest time within the 50 free would have located her eighth out of prelims and into the ‘A’ remaining. Within the 100 and 200 free, occasions of 51.21 and 1:52.58 have been required to safe a lane within the championship warmth. Her occasions in these occasions are fast sufficient for the ‘B’ remaining although, because it took 52.45 and 1:55.19 to qualify.

In response to the workforce’s 2024-25 depth chart, Schlegel’s profession bests in all three freestyle occasions would have ranked her second. Junior Emily Allen led the way in which with marks of 23.35, 51.18, and 1:50.27, respectively. She was 4th within the 200 free, seventh within the 100 free, and ninth within the 50 on the Horizon League Championships, however will probably be graduating a number of months previous to Schlegel’s arrival on campus.

Schlegel joins Avelyn Brown, Hannah Tubbs, and Madeline Bichon in UWGB’s 2030 recruiting class.

The swimmers will arrive on a campus that has not too long ago made a number of upgrades to its aquatic heart, together with a new $65,000 video board. The facelift on the pool comes amid different constructive momentum for the NCAA Division I program, which included the reinstatement of athletic scholarships for the 2024-2025 season, 4 years after they have been eradicated in a funds measure.

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