TIGERSHARKS OPEN AT ALL-ARKANSAS INVITATIONAL

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas – The Ouachita swimming & diving groups opened the 2025-26 season on Saturday with a notable displaying on the All-Arkansas Invitational hosted by Little Rock.

The males’s crew completed second out of 4 groups. The ladies’s crew got here in third out of six. On the lads’s facet, the Tigersharks had been competing in opposition to Henderson State, Hendrix, and the Harding membership crew. The ladies’s crew was up in opposition to Arkansas, Little Rock, Henderson, Hendrix, and Harding’s membership crew.

The males’s performances had been highlighted by the freestyle occasions. James Savarese was part of three prime three finishes, together with third within the 50-yard freestyle, and second within the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 400-yard freestyle relay. He was joined within the 200-yard relay by teammates Dylan Moreno, Colton Martinez, and Landon Dehn. In the 400-yard relay, he was swam with Moreno, Caleb Guthrie, and Gavin Bolton.

The highlights for the ladies’s occasions had been scattered. The 200-yard freestyle relay crew of Sophie Derby, Kaylee Stika, Sophia LeMaire, and McKenzie Jones got here in fourth as the highest non-D1 crew within the occasion. Aurora Ruiz was the highest non-D1 swimmer within the 500-yard freestyle in sixth. Sophie Derby had excessive finishes within the 100-yard butterfly and 50-yard freestyle. Janna Moellenhoff was the highest non-D1 swimmer within the 50-yard freestyle in eighth.

The Tigersharks are again within the water subsequent Saturday, September 27 in Edmond, Oklahoma on the Sam Freas Invitational hosted by Oklahoma Christian.