Both swim groups picked fourth in SAC Preseason Coaches Ballot

ROCK HILL, S.C. – Both the lads’s and girls’s swim groups have been picked to complete fourth within the SAC by the convention’s coaches. 

The Vic Riggs period has already begun in Hickory, with the lads’s and girls’s groups already competing towards Converse and Wingate. The ladies picked up their first victory of the season at Converse, coming away with the 148-131 win. 

Both the lads’s and girls’s groups had three people named to the “swimmers to watch” checklist. Addison Bartemeyer, Ella Penny, Chloe Vestal made up the ladies’s honorees whereas Wyatt Herger, Christopher Glebus, and Renato Herran had been the lads’s. 

The Bears proceed convention play this week once they journey to Mars Hill on Saturday for a battle with the Lions. Their first residence meet will probably be on Saturday, January tenth, towards Wheeling. 

2025-26 SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE MEN’S SWIMMING PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
1. Wingate – 18 factors (3 first-place votes)
2. Catawba – 17 factors (2 first-place votes)
3. Carson-Newman – 16 factors
4. Lenoir-Rhyne – 11 factors
5. Mars Hill – 8 factors

2025 SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S SWIMMING PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
1. Wingate – 18 factors (3 first-place votes)
2. Catawba – 17 factors (2 first-place votes)
3. Carson-Newman – 16 factors
4. Lenoir-Rhyne – 10 factors
5. Mars Hill – 9 factors