MADISON, Wis. – The 2024-25 Wisconsin swim and dive team celebrated its season last Saturday with the team's annual banquet. The Badgers recognized its season success and presented six team awards.

Graduate student Phoebe Bacon and senior Chris Morris earned the Most Valuable Award as the female and male athletes who scored the most points throughout the season. 

Bacon and junior Dominik Mark Torok earned the Most Outstanding Award finishing as the female and male athlete with the highest finish during the championship season. 

The Scholar Athlete Award is awarded to the athlete with the highest cumulative GPA, earned by Hailey Tierney and Matt Segal. 

The Strength & Conditioning Award is picked by Billy Breider and the strength staff. This year's nominees are Callahan Dunn and Chris Morris, as the athletes who lead by example throughout the season. 

Freshman Nate Harris and junior Abby Wanezek earned the Most Improved Award for showing the most progress throughout the duration of the season.

Finally, the Bucky Award goes to the athlete who most embodied a team first attitude in every facet of the program. This year's winners were Phoebe Bacon and Michael Long. 


Most Valuable Award - Phoebe Bacon and Chris Morris
Most Outstanding Award - Phoebe Bacon and Dominik Mark Torok
Scholar-Athlete Award - Hailey Tierney and Matthew Segal
The Strength and Conditioning Award - Callahan Dunn and Chris Morris 
Most Improved Award - Abby Wanezek and Nate Harris
The Bucky Award - Phoebe Bacon and Michael Long