Swimming Set To Debut As River Otters on Friday Evening

PORTLAND, Ore.—Lewis & Clark College males’s and swimming is about to compete in 9 meets through the 2025-26 season. 
 
The River Otters will compete in six twin meets, one quad meet, and two bigger competitions. Both groups are coming off of robust showings on the 2024 Northwest Conference Championship Meet. Men’s swimming moved as much as fifth place within the staff standings and improved their rating by practically 100 factors. Women’s Swimming positioned eighth total however elevated their staff rating by 25 factors. 
 

They would be the first Lewis & Clark varsity athletics staff to compete underneath the River Otters nickname – once they dive into their season on Friday, October 31. Swimming will host Whitman College on Halloween with the meet set to kick off at 6 p.m. 
 

Lewis & Clark will tackle defending Northwest Conference Men’s and Women’s Champion Whitworth University on Saturday, November 1 at 11 a.m. The Pirates swept the NWC Championships final season for the primary time since 2013. They earned their first girls’s title since 2013 and the lads’s staff received their fifth title in six meets. 
 
The River Otters will journey to Tacoma subsequent weekend to tackle the University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University. They will compete towards the Logger on Friday, November 7 (6:00 p.m.) and the Lutes on Saturday, November 8 (11 a.m.). 
 

Lewis & Clark will head to Monterrey Park, California for his or her annual mid-season meet on November 21-23. The River Otters shall be competing on the University of La Verne’s Winter Collegiate Swim Invite for the second-straight season. Last 12 months, the lads’s 200 Free Relay (Zach Martin, Sam LoCurto, Ezra Billings and Micah Rysavy) and Rysavy (200 IM) set program information on Day One of the meet. 
 

The River Otters could have two months off from competitors, earlier than they return to motion in January. After touring again to California for his or her annual Winter Training Trip, Lewis & Clark could have three closing Northwest Conference meets to shut out the regular-season. 
 
Swimming will journey to Linfield University on Friday, January 23 of their closing highway meet of the season. 
 

Lewis & Clark will return to the Zehntbauer Swimming Pavilion on Saturday, January 24. They will host Willamette University at 11 a.m. of their first dwelling meet since November 1. Last season, the lads’s staff dominated the Bearcats 125-65 and received eighth of the 9 particular person occasions. Sophomore Angie Cummings (200 Backstroke and 1,000 Free) and first 12 months Claire Hurty (500 Free) earned particular person wins for the ladies’s staff. 
 
The River Otters will shut out the common season with a uncommon quad meet on Senior Day. They will welcome Northwest Conference foes George Fox college and Pacific University, together with Southwestern Oregon Community College. The males’s staff completed forward of each George Fox (8^th) and Pacific (9^th) final season and the ladies’s staff completed between George Fox (7^th) and Pacific (9^th). Southwestern Oregon is a perpetual nationwide energy on the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) stage and completed because the nationwide runner-up final season on either side. Lewis & Clark will honor their 9 senior members (six girls and three males) after the meet concludes. 
 

Lewis & Clark will journey to Federal Way, Washington for the 2025 Northwest Conference Championship Meet from February 12-15. Last season, 9 Lewis & Clark swimmers earned All-Conference honors and junior Ezra Billings and head coach Caitlin DeNise had been named the Northwest Conference Men’s Swimmer and Men’s Coach of the Year. It marked the primary time {that a} Lewis & Clark swimmer/coach had received both males’s award. The River Otters received 4 gold medals on the 2024 meet. Billings received the person title within the 50 and 100 Free and the 100 Fly. He teamed up with Martin, Rysavy and LoCurto to win the ultimate occasion of the Meet  – the 400 Freestyle Relay. 
 

Lewis & Clark returns six of their 9 All-Conference honorees from final season. Senior Elise Barton and junior Angie Cummings mixed for 5 All-Conference awards final Winter. Barton picked up her first three All-Conference honors within the 50, 100 and 200 Free. Cummings was acknowledged for her efficiency within the 100 and 200 Backstrokes. On the lads’s facet, Billings, Martin, LoCurto and senior Michael Spicer will look to guide the staff. The quartet mixed for 12 All-Conference honors in 2024.