2025 Girls’s Swimming & Diving Season Preview

GAMBIER, Ohio- With custom on its aspect and momentum flowing from one other profitable marketing campaign, the Kenyon College girls’s swimming and diving workforce is able to launch into the 2025-26 season. Armed with a roster that balances veterans and rising contributors, the Owls enter the season with eyes set on extending their convention dominance and contending for one more podium end on the nationwide stage.
 
2024-25 Review
The Owls added one other chapter to their storied historical past by securing the North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) Championship for the second consecutive yr, marking their twenty ninth title within the 40-year historical past of the convention. On the nationwide stage, Kenyon capped the season with a third-place end on the NCAA Championship. The Owls have been one in every of simply three applications to eclipse the 400-point mark on the meet, showcasing the workforce’s endless depth.
 
Coaching Staff
Head Coach Jess Book enters his sixteenth season on the helm of this system. A pacesetter with a confirmed document, Book guided Kenyon to its second nationwide championship in three seasons in 2023-24, a feat that solidified the Owls’ place in historical past with probably the most complete NCAA Championships (25) of any girls’s program. This season, Book is supported by assistant coach Dani Korman and Kosuke Kojima, in addition to diving coach Jason Glorius.
 
2025-2026 Preseason Poll

While the official preseason ballot for the 2025-26 season has but to be launched, final yr’s last College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of American (CSCAA) twin meet ballot positioned Kenyon fifth. The Owls collected 342 factors within the last ballot. That was 51 factors behind Massachusetts Institution of Technology, which topped the ultimate ballot. New York University (371), Emory University (370) and Denison University (364) completed simply forward of the Owls.
 
Top returners by particular person occasion
50 Freestyle: Lisa Torrecillas-Jouault, 23.33 (18th place at nationals)
100 Freestyle: Molly Haag, 50.55    
200 Freestyle: Molly Haag, 1:48.43 (All-American – 2nd place at nationals)                     
500 Freestyle: Molly Haag, 4:49.11 (All-American – ninth place at nationals)          
1650 Freestyle: Molly Haag, 16:38.62 (All-American – third place at nationals)      
100 Backstroke: Gwen Eisenbeis, 54.96 (All-American – fifth place at nationals) 
200 Backstroke: Gwen Eisenbeis, 2:00.44 (All-American – twelfth place at nationals)        
100 Breaststroke: Kelsey Van Eldik, 1:01.29 (All-American – 4th place at nationals)       
200 Breaststroke: Kelsey Van Eldik, 2:14.96 (All-American – sixth place at nationals)       
100 Butterfly: Gwen Eisenbeis, 56.49         
200 Butterfly: Amelia Stevenson, 2:01.97 (All-American – fifth place at nationals)            
100 Ind. Medley: Kate Bogan, 57.81 (All-Conference – third place at convention)
200 Ind. Medley: Ashlyn Widmer, 2:05.01 (twenty first place at nationals)
400 Ind. Medley: Ashlyn Widmer, 4:24.04 (All-American – eleventh place at nationals)
One-Meter Diving: Lucy Cassell-Kelley, 374.40
Three-Meter Diving: Nadia Milovich, 380.25
 
Schedule Overview

• Season Opener: Saturday, October 4, on the University of Indianapolis
• NCAC Championship: February 11-14 hosted by Denison University
• NCAA Championship: March 18-21 in Indianapolis, Indiana

How to Follow
Fans can comply with Kenyon girls’s swimming and diving all through the season through the next hyperlinks: