PREVIEW: Swimming to Begin 2025-26 Season at Residence

By: Sam Boender

M/W Swimming: Mines vs. Adams State – Mines Natatorium – Friday, 3 p.m. [RMAC Network] [Live Results]

M Swimming: Mines vs. Adams State – Mines Natatorium – Saturday, 10 a.m. [RMAC Network] [Live Results]

W Swimming: Mines vs. Adams State/CSU Pueblo – Mines Natatorium – Saturday, 10 a.m. [RMAC Network] [Live Results]

LET’S GET IT STARTED

A brand new season has arrived for the Colorado School of Mines males’s and girls’s swimming & diving groups. The Oredigger swimmers open their official 2025-26 marketing campaign this Friday and Saturday at dwelling with Adams State’s women and men on the town each days and CSU Pueblo’s girls becoming a member of the fray on Saturday. First gun on Friday is at 3 p.m. with Saturday beginning at 10 a.m. All races will probably be within the Mines Natatorium. The newly-returned diving squads will not kick off their season till Oct. 24, additionally at dwelling.
 
RMAC NETWORK CHANGES
This fall, the RMAC Network moved to a pay-per-view mannequin for all occasions. Fans should buy month-to-month and annual subscriptions that may present them entry to all regular-season, championship, and archived broadcasts on the RMAC Network. A month-to-month subscription prices $25, and an annual subscription prices $130. Single-game passes can be found for $10, which grants entry to a single sport for twenty-four hours. For technical help questions, followers can contact Hudl Support or e mail the RMAC straight (rmac@rmacsports.org). For further support, fans can visit the RMAC Network Help page.
 
LIVE COVERAGE
All races this weekend can have stay outcomes supplied by way of the swimcloud platform at www.faculty swimming.com. Specific occasions are linked above and can be accessed by way of www.minesathletics.com/swimlive.
 
ORDER OF EVENTS – FRIDAY
Friday’s slate consists of 14 complete occasions with two relays and 12 particular person races – generally known as an extended order twin. Each particular person can compete in as much as 4 complete occasions. That mixture of occasions might be as much as three particular person races and as much as two relays for a complete of 4 appearances. Each crew can enter three swimmers in every occasion. There will probably be one warmth of every occasion per gender. The tentative order of occasions is under.
– 200-medley relay
– 1000-free
– 200-free
– 100-back
– 100-breast
– 200-fly
– 50-free
BREAK
– 100-free
– 200-back
– 200-breast
– 500-free
– 100-fly
BREAK
– 400-IM
– 400-freestyle relay
 
SCORING FORMAT – DUAL MEET
The scoring for Friday’s competitors will probably be based mostly on the next values. For relays, level values of 11-4-2 will probably be awarded based mostly on order of end. Individual occasions will award values of 9-4-3-2-1 based mostly on order of end. The crew with essentially the most factors in any case 14 occasions wins the twin. In the spirit of sportsmanship, some swimmers’ entries could also be modified to exhibitions which suggests they nonetheless get a time, however don’t essentially rating crew factors.
 
ORDER OF EVENTS – SATURDAY
Saturday encompasses a quick order, or simply 11 complete occasions with two relays and 9 particular person races. With CSU Pueblo becoming a member of the motion, there will probably be two heats per gender of every occasion besides the 1000-free. The tentative checklist of races and order are under.
– 400-medley relay
– 1000-free
– 200-free
– 50-free
– 200-IM
BREAK
– 200-fly
– 100-free
– 200-back
– 500-free
BREAK
– 200-breast
– 200-freestyle relay
 
SCORING FORMAT – TRI MEET
On Saturday, the lads’s scoring between Mines and Adams State will nonetheless comply with dual-meet scoring as referenced above. However, the ladies’s competitors will comply with a tri-meet format. Points will probably be awarded based mostly on order of end compared to the opposite groups. For instance, Jordan Tierney wins the 100-breast, CSU Pueblo swimmer finishes second, and an Adams State swimmer will get third. Selig would earn first-place factors for Mines with half tallying within the competitors in opposition to ASU and the opposite half counting within the competitors with CSU Pueblo. The CSU Pueblo swimmer would rating extra factors within the competitors in opposition to Adams State, however fewer within the complete in opposition to Mines.
 
DIVING RETURNS
Last month, Mines introduced the return of males’s and girls’s NCAA Division II diving beginning this season. Bruno Albertoni and Gabi Batol would be the first Oredigger divers to compete for Mines in additional than a decade. Albertoni arrived in Golden this fall as a real freshman. Batol is in her second yr at Mines however nonetheless retains 4 years of collegiate eligibility. Katherine Andrie will coach the duo and look to regrow this system within the coming years. The historical past of Mines diving consists of 12 all-Americans, a person nationwide champion, one of many first girls in Mines Athletics, and a number of members of the Harry D. Campbell Oredigger Hall of Fame. A couple of of these corridor of fame members embrace NCAA Division II National Champion Rick Williamson, former head coach Bob McCandless, the 1983 Women’s Swimming & Diving crew, and the Men’s Swimming & Diving groups from 1981-84. That wealthy historical past threads completely with the present objectives of this system and the division.
 
STAFF UPDATES
Mines Head Coach Claire McDaniel bolstered her swimming & diving employees through the offseason. The newcomers embrace Katherine Andrie, Nate Rock, Brad Shannon, and Graham Walker. Andrie, as beforehand launched, will function the lads’s and girls’s diving coach. Shannon arrives at Colorado School of Mines as McDaniel’s high assistant. Rock and Walker each competed as student-athletes for McDaniel on the University of Denver and have since gained teaching expertise across the metropolitan space. The quartet joins veteran Oredigger assistants Andy Foley and Colin Fenster.
 
MEET KATHERINE ANDRIE

As referenced above, Coach Andrie will function the lead girl for the Mines diving groups. She joins the employees with each a formidable résumé as a diving coach, and a private familiarity with Colorado School of Mines. Two of her kids, Marty and Carlie, attended Mines and competed for the Orediggers. Marty was a nine-time all-American in cross nation and observe & discipline and a member of the 2015 Men’s Cross Country crew which gained the NCAA Division II Championship. That crew was inducted into the Harry D. Campbell Oredigger Hall of Fame in 2023. Carlie competed in triathlon and for the membership water polo crew throughout her time at Mines. On deck, Coach Andrie boasts a number of many years of highschool and membership teaching expertise with stops at quite a few excessive faculties within the Denver space together with Valor Christian, Littleton, Douglas County, Smoky Hill, and extra. She was named East Metro Diving Coach of the Year in 2011 and CHSAA 4A Dive Coach of the Year in 2018.
 
MEET BRAD SHANNON
Shannon arrived in Golden, Colo., over the summer season following two years as the top man at William Peace University in North Carolina. He and his employees earned 2024-25 Independent South Swimming Conference Men’s Swimming Coaching Staff of the Year after guiding WPU’s males to second-place end on the convention meet whereas the ladies took crew bronze. The Pacer’s 2023-24 squads mixed for six gold medals on the ISSC meet and broke 9 program information. Prior to William Peace, Shannon was an assistant on the University of Rochester from 2019-23. Additional skilled expertise consists of work as a counselor at each the University of Florida and N.C. State swim camps. Collegiately, Shannon competed at Ohio State University and earned Ohio State and Big Ten Scholar Athlete distinction all 4 years. He was a USA Swimming Olympic Trial Qualifier in 2016 as effectively. He owns a bachelor’s diploma in worldwide research with a specialization in safety and intelligence from OSU. Shannon earned his grasp’s diploma from Concordia Chicago in utilized train science. Fans can learn extra about Shannon’s accomplishments in his on-line bio.
 
MEET GRAHAM WALKER
Walker joins the Oredigger employees following an elite beginner and collegiate swimming profession. Born and raised in Nairobi, Kenya, Walker represented Team Kenya at each the All-Africa Games and the Commonwealth Games. He went on to compete for the University of Denver beneath coach McDaniel. His high-level efficiency within the pool additionally led to serving as crew captain his closing two years with the Pioneers. Walker’s coach profession began whereas he was nonetheless in faculty, instructing swimming classes, and continued after commencement. He ultimately accepted a proper teaching function with the University of Denver Hilltoppers Swim Club in 2022. Since then, Walker coached a number of state champions and program report holders. He returned to DU as an assistant coach in 2024 and helped oversee convention titles and continued aggressive success. Fans can even discover his bio on-line.
 
MEET NATE ROCK
Rock, like Walker, competed collegiately for the Pioneers after graduating from Boulder High School. Rock represented DU from 2017-20, and took on teaching obligations in 2021. He scored crew factors for the Pioneers on the 2019 Summit League Championships, ending fifth within the 500-free and sixth within the 200-back. He did the identical once more in 2020 and added a fourth-place end within the 1650-free. In addition to his teaching expertise at DU, Rock additionally served because the coach at Boulder High School and is in his second yr guiding the University of Colorado membership swim crew. His bio might be discovered on-line on the Mines Athletics homepage.
 
SQUAD SUMMARY
The Oredigger males’s squad options 21 on its roster whereas the ladies tout 22. Each roster options one diver with 20 swimmers and 21 swimmers, respectively. Mines’ males have 11 getting back from the 2024-25 crew with 10 contemporary faces. Included in these contemporary faces are eight true freshman, one redshirt freshman who’s in his second yr at Mines and one NCAA Division I switch in Charlie Krone who accomplished his bachelor’s diploma on the University of Tennessee. The Oredigger girls boast 14 returners, seven true freshman, and Gabi Batol who will dive after attending Mines for one yr already. Most notable among the many males’s returners is sophomore Vladislav Kazakin who was a two-time all-American and gained a number of RMAC gold medals as a real freshman. A robust group of returners for the ladies is led by senior Jordan Tierney who’s a five-time all-American after qualifying for the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships all three years of her collegiate profession to date.
 
FRESH FACES
Fresh faces for the Mines males embrace Bruno Albertoni (diver), Evan Angeline, Fausto Angelone Lopez, Aidan Bailey (redshirt), Dan Berke, Jack Fulham, Charlie Krone (Tennessee) Nathan Moss, Jackson Steider, and Reid Wilkerson. The latest Oredigger girls are Gabi Batol (diving), Anna Bream, Willow Coburn, Samantha Crane, Kaya Flaherty, Mary Flikkema, Mikaela Khan, and Michelle Murphy.
 
AT THE HELM
Colorado School of Mines Swimming Head Coach Claire McDaniel enters her seventh season on the helm for the Oredigger women and men. McDaniel gained her fourth RMAC Coach of the Year on the lads’s facet after guiding the Orediggers to crew silver on the 2024-25 RMAC Swimming & Diving Championships. She additionally owns three RMAC Coach of the Year awards on the ladies’s facet. Through six seasons, McDaniel has coached 5 RMAC Swimmers of the Year, 4 RMAC Freshmen of the Year, and 27 all-American performances together with 23 particular person occasions and 4 relays.
 
UP NEXT
The subsequent motion for Mines’ women and men will probably be in opposition to Colorado College on Friday, Oct. 24, and can embrace the 2025-26 debut of Oredigger diving. Full previews and stay protection will probably be obtainable the day earlier than every occasion at www.minesathletics.com.
 
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