Swim & Dive Open Season with Continental Divide Cup

PUEBLO, Colo.  Western Colorado swimming and diving begins its 2025-26 schedule with the third Annual Dan France Continental Divide Cup, to be contested Friday and Saturday, Sept. 19-20 at Sam Jones Natatorium at Colorado State University Pueblo.

Participating within the two-day meet together with the Mountaineers and the host ThunderWolves are additionally Adams State University and the University of Nebraska Kearney.

The meet is split into two separate days of scoring competitors, with the Cup champion topped after combining the crew scores from the 2 days of swimming and diving.

Day 1 occasion schedule (1:30 p.m. diving, 3:30 p.m. swimming):

• 1-meter diving (6 optionals)
• 200-yard medley relay
• 1,000 freestyle
• 200 freestyle
• 50 freestyle
• 200 particular person medley
• 100 butterfly
• 100 freestyle
• 100 backstroke
• 500 freestyle
• 1-meter diving (5 voluntaries)
• 100 breaststroke
• 400 freestyle relay

Day 2 occasion schedule (9:40 a.m.):

• 3-meter diving (6 optionals)
• 400 medley relay
• 1,650 freestyle
• 50 backstroke
• 50 breaststroke
• 200 butterfly
• 100 particular person medley
• 200 backstroke
• 200 breaststroke
• 50 butterfly
• 3-meter diving (5 voluntaries)
• 400 particular person medley
• 200 freestyle relay

Teams are restricted to 4 scorers in particular person occasions, and two scoring relays.

Western returns two-time NCAA Division II swimming and diving championship participant Morgan Nielsen, in addition to two-time NCAA DII Diving Qualification Meet participant Alexandra Wallis.

Nielsen set three faculty information whereas swimming on the 2025 championship meet in Indianapolis, breaking information she set the season earlier than.

She holds the Mountaineer report of 4 minutes, 59.23 seconds within the 500-yard freestyle; the 1,000 freestyle report (10:19.85); and the 1,650 freestyle report (17:10.82).

Wallis has the varsity report for 3-meter diving (6 optionals) with a rating of 272.55 factors.

Also returning for the 2025-26 season is Leah Wagner, who set three faculty information final season and posted an NCAA B qualifying time within the 200 breaststroke. Wagner set information for the 200 breaststroke (2:20.71), the 200 particular person medley (2:09.31), and the 400 IM (4:36.86).

One of 4 swimmers that set a brand new program mark for the 200 medley relay (1:46.47), butterflyer Joanna Swiderska, is again for her second season with this system.

Head coach Vickie Fellows, in her fifth season on the helm of this system, added 15 newcomers to a returning roster of 15 swimmers and divers.