Debuts, Wins Spotlight Swimming Season Opener

By: Sam Boender

Results

GOLDEN, Colo. –

The Colorado School of Mines males’s and ladies’s swimmers formally opened their 2025-26 season Friday with a twin in opposition to Adams State on the Mines Natatorium. Outstanding performances and quite a few debuts highlighted a 134-82 win for the boys and a 92-44 margin in favor of the Oredigger girls.
 
Racing started with the 200-medley relay. Mines’ quartet of Emi Jedryka, Jordan Tierney, Kylie VanderMeer, and Michelle Murphy received it for the ladies in 1:48.29. Jakson Winn, Joe Hutchinson, Charlie Krone, and Lucas Waasdorp have been first for the boys because of a 1:35.36 clip. Next was the 1000-free. Julie Gill clocked an 11:02.61 and Lucas Hoke touched the wall at 10:03.63 for a girls’s and males’s sweep. The 200-free noticed Ava LaBrose flip in a 1:57.05 and Vladislav Kazakin cease the clock at 1:44.23. In the backstroke, Jedryka’s 1:00.40 was the quickest girls’s time and Jack Fulham’s 53.27 led the boys. The long-order program continued with Anna Bream and Joe Hutchinson profitable the 100-breast. Mikaela Khan and Krone have been quickest within the 100-fly. Quick sprints received by Tierney and Kevin Burns introduced the meet to its first intermission.
 
After the break, VanderMeer and Jakson Winn have been winners within the 100-free. Then, Bream struck once more the 200-back with Reid Wilkerson greatest within the males’s race. A frightening 200-breast completed with Ava Burger and Fausto Angelone-Lopez touting the quickest tempo. That introduced another distance take a look at – the 500-free. Khan produced the quickest time within the girls’s race – 5:20.96. Nathan Moss had one of the best tempo within the males’s race at 4:56.11. The 100-fly introduced the occasion into the ultimate break after a 59.13 from Jennifer Pierson and a 51.62 churned out by Krone. Following the reprieve, Bream received the ladies’s 400-IM, Evan Angeline was quickest in the identical males’s occasion. Finally, Sophia Cristal, Pierson, Eden Addison and VanderMeer stopped the block at 3:38.95 within the girls’s 400-freestyle relay. Krone, Joseph Lev-Tov, Kazakin, and Winn paddled out to three:14.34 within the males’s relay.
 
While Mines had the quickest time in each race on Friday, the true highlights have been debuts in a Mines uniform. The following folks recorded their first race as an Oredigger – so as of look: Michelle Murphy, Mary Flikkema, Kaya Flaherty, Charlie Krone, Reid Wilkerson, Fausto Angeline Lopez, Jack Fulham, Dan Berke, Nathan Moss, Samantha Crane, Anna Bream, Evan Angeline, Mikaela Khan, Jackson Steider, and Aidan Bailey.
 
The Oredigger women and men proceed their opening weekend Saturday with Mines’ males going head-to-head in opposition to Adams State whereas the ladies tackle ASU and CSU Pueblo. Free reside outcomes will likely be obtainable at www.minesathletics.com/swimlive. Live video could be considered with a subscription to the RMAC Network.
 

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