WVU Battles Penn State in Remaining Meet of Common Season

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving workforce faces the Penn State Nittany Lions in its last meet of the 2025-26 common season on Friday at 11 a.m. at The Peak Health Aquatic Center at Mylan Park in Morgantown.

The males’s workforce (3-1) is coming off a win in opposition to Villanova on Jan. 24. The ladies’s workforce (3-3) defeated Duquesne however misplaced to Villanova in a tri-meet.

Against the Dukes and Wildcats, redshirt senior Natasha Whittall moved up the leaderboard within the ladies’s 100-yard backstroke, posting a last time of 54.14. That ranks her sixth all-time in program historical past for that occasion.
 
Redshirt junior Sofia Deste additionally posted a top-10 time, ending at 1:02.82 within the 100-yard breaststroke to rank sixth all-time in program historical past.
 
Major contributions have come from newcomers this 12 months on either side. Freshman Jake Salcedo continues to set the tone for the space swimmers together with Virginia Tech switch junior Vedaant Madhavan. Madhavan gained the 1650-yard freestyle in opposition to Villanova.
 
Freshman Rafael Mimoso has additionally been an important addition to this system, successful the 100-yard breaststroke in opposition to Villanova.
 
In the diving effectively, Stevi Chalemou has carried out effectively for the ladies’s workforce. Most just lately, she gained 1-meter in opposition to Villanova and Duquesne. She additionally gained on platform in opposition to George Washington and on the WVU Invitational.
 
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