PREVIEW: 2025-26 SHIP U. Males’s Swimming

Schedule
The Shippensburg University males’s swim crew opens the 2025-26 season with a twin meet at Kutztown on Wednesday, Sept. 24 at 5 p.m. The Raiders then journey to Bloomsburg earlier than internet hosting Indiana (Pa.) on Tuesday, Oct. 7 at 5 p.m. at Donald N. Miller Pool.

Additional house meets embody Pitt-Johnstown on Saturday, Oct. 18, and Edinboro on Jan. 9. Invitational occasions embody the F&M Invitational (Nov. 21-23), Gettysburg Invitational (Dec. 5-6), and the Navy Invitational (Jan. 31). The PSAC Swimming Championships might be held Feb. 18-21 on the Graham Aquatic Center in York.

Roster
Shippensburg has 17 swimmers in 2025-26, together with 11 returners, 5 freshmen, and one graduate switch. Four athletes are listed as seniors: Carter Hawkes, Kevin Noldy, Josh Wall (graduate switch), and Nate Wauls. The roster contains 4 seniors, 5 juniors, three sophomores, and 5 freshmen.

Coaching Staff
Head Coach Tim Verge enters his twenty seventh season. Assistant Coach Jen Flinchbaugh enters her tenth season.

Previous Season Results
SU completed sixth on the 2025 PSAC Championships.

• Josh Einolf: Ninth place, 100-yard butterfly; second all-time in program historical past within the occasion.
• Kevin Noldy: Ninth place, 50-yard freestyle.
• Mason Koeth: Fifth place, 200-yard freestyle; fifteenth, 100-yard butterfly; program file holder within the 200 freestyle (1:40.25).
• Robbie Ferlick: twelfth, 50 free; 18th, 100 free; second all-time in each occasions.
• Carter Hawkes: thirteenth, 1,650 free; sixteenth, 1,000 free.
• Alex Kissinger: twelfth, 200-yard butterfly.

Relay accomplishments embody:

• New college file in 200-free relay (Noldy, Ferlick, Connor Ludwig, Nathan VanNatter).
• New college file in 200-medley relay (Koeth, Einolf, Ferlick, VanNatter).

Roster by Hometown

• Pennsylvania (12): Ian Deck, Josh Einolf, Robbie Ferlick, Kiran George, Joe Herman, Mason Hockenberry, Alex Kissinger, Connor Ludwig, Kevin Noldy, Luke Roettger, Nate Wauls, Kye Winslow
• Germany (1): Mason Koeth
• North Carolina (1): Josh Wall
• Oklahoma (1): Ethan Dismuke
• South Carolina (1): Carter Hawkes
• Virginia (1): Cooper Mercer