Gardner-Webb Swimming Opens 2025-26 Season at Catawba on Saturday Afternoon

SALISBURY, N.C. – The Gardner-Webb swimming crew opened its 2025-26 season on Saturday afternoon, with a string of fine particular person outcomes on the highway at Catawba College

For the Runnin’ Bulldogs, sophomore Agustin Orechia received the lads’s 100 yard backstroke to open the season. Orechia posted a time of 49.82 seconds with a 25.59 cut up, whereas junior Carter Redelman positioned third for GWU with a 50.33 second time and 25.81 cut up

Orechia was again in motion within the males’s 200 yard backstroke, additionally scoring one other win as he paced the Gardner-Webb males. Orechia got here in practically a second forward of second place with a successful time of 1:49.68

In the ladies’s 100 yard breaststroke, sophomore Dakota Townley picked up the place she left off final season, successful the occasion with a time of 1:05.51 and with splits of 30.81 seconds and 34.70 seconds

GWU posted wins in each the lads’s and girls’s version of the 200 yard butterfly. In the lads’s race, sophomore Santiago Alacantara touched the wall in 1:50.50 for the win, whereas freshman Jenna Valentine did so within the ladies’s race with a time of two:08.76. Alacantara competed within the males’s 1000 yard freestyle within the day, coming second with a time of 9:34.37

The ladies’s 50 yard freestyle went the best way of the Dawgs, with junior Slawka Ndubuisi scoring a win. Ndubuisi touched the wall in a blistering 23.43 seconds, out-touching her opponent from Catawba in second place by simply 0.12 seconds

Freshman Madison Richardson started her Gardner-Webb and faculty profession in superb vogue with a win within the ladies’s 200 yard IM race. Richardson completed 1-2 with Gardner-Webb teammate sophomore Kaitlyn Estes, with the duo posting instances of two:10.99 and a pair of:11.98 respectively

Sophomore Jacob Jensen was among the many high finishers within the males’s 50 yard freestyle, posting a lightning-quick time of 21:09 and ending simply half a second off the highest spot

GWU posted two stable leads to relay races, with the lads’s 200 yard medley crew and girls’s 200 yard relay groups coming every in second. For the lads’s race, it was the quartet of sophomore Manuel Brandner, senior Justin Bender, Jensen and Redelman recording a time of 1:31.02. Then within the ladies’s race, Townley, Ndubuisi, sophomore Jillian Hawkins, and senior Hannah Routh touched the wall in 1:46.22

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Gardner-Webb returns to motion on October tenth and eleventh at UNC Wilmington