DURHAM, N.C. – The Duke swimming and diving head coach
Brian Barnes has introduced the 4 Blue Devils who will function captains for the 2025-26 season.
The ladies’s captains are
Audrey Portello and
Tatum Wall, whereas the boys’s captains are
Evan Brown and
Austin Simpson.
Portello, a local of Davis, Calif., is heading into her senior 12 months after a breakout junior season. She was a 2024-25 College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Second Team Scholar All-America honoree final 12 months. Throughout the 2024-25 season, Portello claimed 5 first-place finishes in numerous occasions, together with the 400 IM and the 1000 Freestyle. Her efficiency on the 2025 ACC Championships landed her in this system’s report e book, as she sits at fifth within the 400 IM (4:11.06), ninth within the 500 Freestyle (4:48.32), fourth within the 1000 Freestyle (9:55.43) and fourth within the 1650 Freestyle (16:28.02).
A product of Ashburn, Va., Wall is coming into her senior marketing campaign after a visit to the NCAA Women’s Championship a 12 months in the past. Throughout her junior season, Wall clinched 10 first-place finishes, competing within the 50 and 100 Freestyles. In Duke’s report e book, Wall is the holder of the 100 Freestyle, logging a time of 47.65 towards Georgia Tech, and he or she additionally sits at second place within the 50 Freestyle, swimming a time of 21.79 on the Wolfpack Elite Invitational. Wall was additionally tabbed a 2024-25 CSCAA Scholar All-America.
Brown, a second-team 2024-25 CSCAA Scholar All-America choice, is coming off a profitable junior marketing campaign. A product of Arlington, Va., Brown made an look on the NCAA Zone B Championships, the place he posted a rating of 253.15 within the 1-meter dive and a rating of 264.90 within the 3-meter dive. He recorded his greatest meet of the season towards South Carolina, scoring a season-best of 327.45 within the 3-meter for a third-place end and clinching a season-high fifth-place end within the 1-meter dive with a 267.60 rating.
Simpson, a local of New York City, N.Y., wrapped up the 2024-25 season with eight top-five finishes. In the Blue Devils’ program information, he sits at seventh within the 1000 Freestyle with a time of 9:23.90 and ninth within the 500 Freestyle with a time of 4:25.84. He opened final season with a first-place end within the 500 Freestyle, swimming a time of 4:45.64, and a second-place end within the 1000 Freestyle, touching a time of 9:53.61 towards Marymount.
The Blue Devils will kick off their season by internet hosting Marymount, East Carolina and Boston College September 26, contained in the Taishoff Aquatic Center, with diving slotted to start out at 4 p.m., and swimming to comply with at 5 p.m.
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