Season Preview: 2022-23 Swim & Dive Marketing campaign Begins With Friday’s Maroon & Gold

September 19, 2022

NEW FACES
Twenty-six complete new faces have joined this system – 14 with the Males’s staff and 12 with the Ladies’s squad. Moreover, 4 belong to the diving staff, marking the primary time for the reason that 2018-19 season that each Males’s and Ladies’s dive might be represented.

4 are new transfers and all swimmers – Laura Garcia (Houston), Daniel Matheson (USC), Max McCusker (Florida State) and Jack Wadsworth (Ithaca).

When requested the place his staff could also be in a greater place now versus this time final yr, Bowman pointed to the additions of those transfers, together with Matheson and Wadsworth, who can add to what this staff lacked a season in the past.

“[Matheson] had a terrific summer time right here coaching and swam very nicely on the US Nationals, so we’re enthusiastic about him,” Bowman stated. “He’s going to actually add to our distance program, which I feel we actually want to enhance.

Wadsworth, in a breakout 2021-22 season at Ithaca, set a Division III file within the 100 again. Bowman recognized the backstroke as an occasion the place his staff wanted to enhance – so enter Wadsworth, a Division III Nationwide Champion and a two-time All-American.

“We’ve individuals in each occasion at a fairly first rate stage, and a few at a really excessive stage,” Bowman stated. “I feel we’re simply deeper and we cowl all of the bases.”

Affiliate head coach Rachel Stratton-Mills has been wowed by the efforts of freshmen Ieva Maluka and Izzy Krantzcke within the early going. Maluka raced within the 100 and 200 free on the Tokyo Olympic Video games in 2021 and Krantzcke was the No. 9 ranked recruit popping out of Texas within the class of 2022.

“Simply doing superb issues,” Stratton-Mills stated. “Freshmen are main lanes from the primary week. It’s actually thrilling.”

DIVERS
It’s been a number of years, however when the Solar Devils open their season on September 30 in Atlanta, they’ll achieve this with a roster of six divers – a welcome sight for second-year head coach Marc Briggs.

Briggs introduced on two transfers final season initially of the spring semester in Zachory Lundgren and Thomas Wesche, and each are again this fall.

This system has a trio of freshmen in Caleb Liban, Lane Stallworth and Amayah Wiley. Briggs additionally introduced in a walk-on in Ashlyn Kirsch, a present junior who’s had years of diving expertise beneath her belt.

Briggs stated he’s been happy with every diver’s development to start the varsity yr, however it has been particularly impactful having Lundgren and Wesche again.

“Not solely them, however for our freshmen,” Briggs stated. “To have that have, to have the ability to inform them what to anticipate going into competitors and the way it works within the school world [is beneficial].”

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