Duke Opens 2025-26 Season Inside Taishoff Aquatic Center Friday

DURHAM, N.C. – Duke swimming and diving opens its 2025-26 slate on Friday, welcoming Marymount, East Carolina and Boston College to the Taishoff Aquatic Center. Diving begins at 4 p.m., adopted by swimming at 5 p.m. 

The Blue Devil males will compete towards Marymount and Boston College, whereas the ladies will sq. off with East Carolina and Boston College.

NOTABLES 

• The Blue Devils ladies’s group earned a top-25 end on the NCAA Championship a season in the past, whereas the boys notched a top-10 end on the CSCAA National Invitational.
• During the 2024-25 season, the boys’s group posted a 1-6 document, whereas the ladies’s squad completed 3-3.
• Head coach Brian Barnes enters his third season on the helm, carrying a 2-12 mark with the boys’s program and an 8-6 document with the ladies’s.
• Captain Tatum Wall returns for her senior 12 months after setting the varsity document within the 100-yard freestyle (47.65) and etching her identify in Duke’s document e-book with a second-place mark within the 50 freestyle (21.79).
• Junior Ali Pfaff is coming off a breakout sophomore marketing campaign, the place she holds a number of program information: first in each the 100 (51.11) and 200 backstroke (1:51.55), eighth within the 100 freestyle (49.14) and ties for eighth within the 200 freestyle (1:47.66). 
• Three-time All-America honoree Kaelyn Gridley returns for her senior marketing campaign. A 12 months in the past, she collected First Team All-America honors within the 100 and 200 breaststrokes, inserting eighth within the 100 (58.72) and fourth within the 200 (2:05.91) on the NCAA Championships. Gridley has now earned First Team All-America honors in all three of her earlier collegiate seasons.
• Junior Jacob Hills etched his identify in Duke’s document e-book a season in the past, recording a 1:43.48 time within the 200 backstroke for a second-place rating. He additionally polls fourth in program historical past within the 100 backstroke with a time of 47.52.
• Captain Austin Simpson returns for his senior season after inserting seventh within the 1,000 freestyle (9:23.90) and ninth all-time within the 500 freestyle (4:25.84) in Dukes’ program information. 
• Junior Kalen Anbar touched a time of 53.53 within the 100 breaststroke final season, rating ninth at school historical past.
• Junior Jack Smith stands ninth in program information after swimming a time of 1:58.07 within the 200 breaststroke through the 2024-25 season.
• Sophomore Owen Markowitz seems to be to construct on a powerful freshman 12 months, when he swam a 3:53.97 within the 400 particular person medley for the sixth-best time in Duke historical past.

UP NEXT

• The Blue Devils welcome Davidson to Taishoff Aquatic Center on Oct. 10, with diving set for 4 p.m., and swimming to observe at 5 p.m.

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