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2026-27 Men's Swimming & Diving Roster

Peyton Bartsch
Chris Day

Giani Benoit

  • Yr. Senior
  • Height 6-0
  • Events Diving
  • Hometown Wichita, Kan.
  • High School Wichita Northwest

Biography



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Overall Career Honors
  • First Team CSCAA All-American - 2026 (3m Diving)
  • NCAA Division II Championship Qualifier - 2026
  • First Team CSCAA Scholar All-American - 2026
2025-26 (Freshman): Earned a First Team CSCAA All-America honor thanks to an eighth place finish in the 3-meter diving event at the NCAA Division II National Championships… Scored 462.70 points after scoring 498.60 points in the finals… Also finished 18th in the 1-meter preliminaries with 367.55 points… Set a season-best score of 537.40 points in the 1-meter as an exhibition diver at the RMAC Championships… Had a season-best 3-meter score of 523.10 points at the TYR/CMU Invitational… Had a season-best 6-dive scores of 285.00 (1m) and 288.35 (3m) at the NCAA Pre-Championship Qualification Meet.

Prep: 2025 graduate of Wichita Northwest High School… Won both the 2024 and 2025 6A Kansas State Championship 1-meter title for the Grizzlies… Placed sixth at the state meet as a sophomore in 2023 and fourth as a freshman in 2022.

Personal: Is majoring in construction management… Aspires to “To get into a field that I can move up in and build a career in.”… Son of Amanda Larsen… Enjoys bike riding and hiking.

Why I Chose CMU: “The location and they had the major I wanted plus good athletics.”

Historical Player Information

  • 2025-26Freshman

    Diving
    6'0"
  • 2026-27Senior

    Diving
    6'0"