Panthers Host Arkansas, Missouri S&T to Open 2025-26 Swimming and Diving Marketing campaign

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Drury swimming and diving kicks off its 2025-26 season this weekend at Breech Pool, because the DU ladies host Arkansas Friday for afternoon, earlier than the boys welcome fellow GLVC member Missouri S&T for a Saturday afternoon meet. Competition begins at 3 p.m. Friday and 1 p.m. Saturday, with stay outcomes out there by way of the Meet Mobile app.

The Drury ladies are coming off of a nationwide runner-up end on the 2025 NCAA Division II Swimming and Diving Championships, whereas the DU males formally positioned third on the nationwide meet in March.

The Drury swimming packages will as soon as once more be led by Brian Reynolds, one of many nation’s most achieved collegiate swimming coaches. Reynolds enters his forty third 12 months as head coach of the Panthers males’s staff and his thirty eighth season main the ladies’s program.

“We’re very excited to welcome a large class of freshmen as we begin our season of competition,” Reynolds acknowledged. “We have a talented group that is prepared to work hard and overcome any obstacle in our pursuit of excellence, in and out of the pool. Our schedule is filled with some of the top swimming programs in the country and we are eager to compete.”

PANTHERS TO WATCH THIS WEEKEND

• Under Reynolds’ course, the Panthers have amassed 33 nationwide championships because the Drury graduate took the reins of this system from Hall of Fame head coach Jack Steck in 1983; Reynolds has led DU to eight NAIA males’s nationwide titles and 12 NCAA Men’s Division II crowns, in addition to three NAIA ladies’s nationwide championships and 10 NCAA Women’s Division II nationwide titles.
• Lucas Mineur (dash free/relays) returns for the Panthers after inserting sixth eventually 12 months’s NCAA Championship within the males’s 50 free, whereas additionally lending his skills to DU’s 800 free relay staff, which completed as nationwide runner-up, in addition to the Panthers’ 200 medley relay (4th) and 200 free relay (seventh).
• Belen Morales (free/relays) was a relay stalwart for the DU ladies in 2024-25, serving to energy a pair of Panthers’ relay groups (400 medley and 800 free) that positioned second on the NCAA Championship.
• Matteo Vissotto (free/relays) returns to Drury after posting a pair of top-five finishes on the nationwide meet in March, capping his season with a fourth-place end within the males’s 500 free and fifth within the 200 free; he additionally anchored the Panthers’ 800 free relay staff that positioned second.
• Maria Munoz (IM) turned in a robust nationwide meet as properly for the Drury ladies, ending because the tenth main scorer general in Indianapolis; A CSC Academic All-District honoree, she returns following a fifth-place nationwide end within the 200 fly and sixth-place finishes within the 200 IM and 200 again, along with serving to DU’s 200 medley relay to a seventh-place end.
• Alvaro Zornoza (again/IM) was one among Drury’s high performers on the NCAA Championship, inserting second (to fellow Panther Ivan Adamchuk) within the males’s 100 again and third within the 200 again; he additionally helped tempo the Panthers’ 800 free relay squad that completed as nationwide runner-up.
• Nikol Maniko (again/IM/relays) takes goal at a giant sophomore season after a robust rookie marketing campaign that culminated in a robust effort on the NCAA meet in March; she completed eleventh general within the ladies’s 200 IM, whereas serving to the Panthers’ 200 free relay staff to a twelfth place displaying in Indy.
• Joao Nogueira (breast/IM/relays), a senior from Brazil, will look to duplicate a standout junior season that concluded with a robust displaying on the NCAA Championship; Nogueira positioned fifth individually within the males’s 400 IM, whereas serving to the Panthers’ 800 free relay staff to a runner-up end.
• Ashlyn Moore (dash free) might be on the lookout for a robust senior marketing campaign for the Drury ladies; the Springfield native and CSC Academic All-District honree turned in a 14th place end within the 50 free on the NCAA Championship, along with taking part in key roles on three Panthers relay squads — 200 free, 400 free and 200 medley — that positioned among the many high 12 groups in Indianapolis.
• Belhassen Ben miled (fly/IM), a freshman from Tunisia, is predicted to contribute to the Drury males’s efforts as a rookie in butterfly and IM occasions.
• Petra Baumane (dash free), one other highly-touted freshman for the DU, will look to go away her mark in sprints in her debut season with the Panthers.

LOOKING AHEAD

Drury swimming will compete within the SMU Classic subsequent weekend (Oct. 10-11) in Dallas, whereas the Panthers divers will journey to Clarion, Pa., for the Don Leas Invitational (Oct. 10) and Clarion Fall Classic (Oct. 11).

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