RECAP: Swimming competes in opposition to Vassar and New Paltz

The Bard College males’s and ladies’s swimming groups opened their 2025–26 season on Wednesday night time in a tri-meet at Vassar College, competing in opposition to the Brewers and SUNY New Paltz.


Sophomore Nate Dower led the Raptors with a robust second-place end within the males’s 200-yard particular person medley (2:14.66) and added a third-place end within the 100 backstroke (1:03.37). Dower additionally helped the 200 freestyle relay staff — joined by Benett Hathaway, Reece Sherf, and Owen O’Reilly — to a second-place time of 1:45.87. 


On the ladies’s facet, Yolanda Liu paced Bard with a pair of fourth-place finishes within the 200 freestyle (2:27.02) and 100 butterfly (1:13.06). Katelyn Campoverde contributed with robust efforts within the 50 freestyle (32.39) and 100 backstroke (1:20.75).
Vassar and New Paltz got here away with staff wins, however Bard continued to construct early-season momentum with a number of encouraging swims and improved occasions throughout the board.


The Raptors return to motion on October twenty fifth after they journey to Sarah Lawrence with a 1 p.m. begin. 


Women
200 Free
Yolanda Liu 2:27.02

50 Free

Katelyn Campoverde 32.39 

Rose Rahimi 36.29

100 Fly 

Yolanda Liu 1:13.06 

100 Free

Rose Rahimi 1:24.26

100 Backstroke 

Katelyn Campoverde 1:20.75

Men 

200 Free

Reece Sherf 2:13.54

50 Free

Benett Hathaway 27.49

Owen O’Reily 27.83

200 IM 

2. Nate Dower 2:14.66

100 Fly 

Reece Sherf 1:10.13

100 Free

Benett Hathaway 1:03.04

100 Backstroke 

3. Nate Dower 1:03.37

100 Breaststroke 

Owen O’Reily 1:21.40 

200 Free Relay 

Dower, Hathaway, Sherf, O’Reily 1:45.87