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Ladies’s Swimming & Diving Opens 2025-26 With Loss to RIT

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ALFRED, NY — The Alfred University girls’s swimming & diving workforce opened its 2025-26 season with a house loss to Rochester Institute of Technology on Friday night.

The Saxons (0-1, 0-0 Empire 8) fell by a rating of 197-99. “It is always difficult to gauge where we are in readiness going into the first dual meet. It doesn’t make anything easier when your first is against a top-tier team like RIT,” Head Coach Brian Striker ’00 stated. “We came out of the gate strong today and our team energy was great. They swam fast, faster than I would have expected given where we are in the season and Ruby [Kavanagh] dove as good she ever has. Liz [Share] started off without missing a beat, breaking her own pool record in the 100 backstroke. We had several upper-class swimmers swim their personal bests, including Ruby on the boards, which is a great indicator of potential this early in a season. Based on what I saw today, I’m excited for this group. I think it’ll be a fun and successful season for them!”

Elizabeth Share (Macedon, NY/Palmyra-Macedon) broke her personal McLane Natatorium report of 1:00.52 with a brand new time of 1:00.18 as she received the 100-yard backstroke. She went on to win the 200-yard backstroke with a time of two:12.85, out-pacing the remainder of the pool by nearly 14 seconds. Share additionally took the win within the 200-yard particular person medley with a time of two:17.50.

Isobel Anderegg (Wellsboro, PA/Wellsboro Area) additionally claimed a first-place end as she swam a 1:11.46 to win the 100-yard breaststroke. Anderegg additionally earned second place within the 200-yard breaststroke with a time of two:40.85.

Share and Anderegg opened the season by swimming the backstroke and breaststroke legs of the 200-yard medley relay, being joined by Courtney Cherricks (Chincoteague, VA/Big Spring) and Kyra Harry (Garborone, Botswana/Enko Botho) to complete second with a time of 1:56.12, simply shy of the Tigers’ time of 1:54.05.

Alexandra Simmons (Danbury, CT/Danbury) completed second within the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 11:58.22. Harry took second within the 50-yard freestyle, clocking a time of 26.10 simply earlier than incomes second within the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 1:02.79.

The Saxons will subsequent host Roberts Wesleyan University on Wednesday, October 22 at 4:00pm.

–Swords Forward Saxons–

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