Swimming & Diving Set to Open the 2025-26 Season at Amherst

Waterville, Maine – The Colby Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving group is able to get the brand new season underway this Saturday heading to Amherst College to face the Mammoths. The girls’s group has been given a nineteenth rating on the CSCAA’s National Division III preseason ballot following main success from final 12 months. The Amherst males are ranked twentieth which can arrange a giant alternative for the Colby males’s group to start the season. The Amherst girls are presently ranked sixteenth. 

The Colby Women’s group is coming off a historic 2024-25 season incomes their highest group end at NCAA’s in 17 years on prime of seven Mules incomes All-American standing, probably the most ever in group historical past. They shall be led by a senior group of 5 consisting of Tahlia Crowley, Abigail Eastman, Emma Farnham, Kellen Mottl, and Avery Rappaport. They are joined by a first-year class of eight Mules who will look to make an affect within the pool straight away. 

The Colby Men’s group will look to enhance off of final years outcomes because the group completed ninth of 11 colleges within the NESCAC Championship. A senior class of 5 will led the group this season; Ethan Chang, Nathaniel Chon, Alexander MacLennan, Noam Reinhorn and Brandon Xiong. The group is joined by a giant first-year class of 13 student-athletes. 

Tom Burton returns for his twenty eighth season as Head Coach of the Mules. He is joined by Associate Head Coach Craig Nisgor in his third season in addition to Diving Coach Luca Brashear who enters his second season at Colby. Haley Thier has joined the teaching employees this season after a standout collegiate profession as a student-athlete competing at each Clavin and Denision University. 

Fans can observe alongside the motion this season utilizing the boys’s and ladies’s schedule tabs to see when Colby Swimming & Diving involves a location close to you. 

CLICK HERE to view the full CSCAA Top 25 Preseason Poll