Swim & Dive Set to Host 5 Residence Meets

FORT COLLINS  – The season will start and finish at house as Colorado State ladies’s swimming & diving staff launched the schedule for the 2026-27 marketing campaign, it is first as a member of the Pac-12.

The Rams will host the Front Range Invitational at Edora Pool Ice Center on Oct. 2-3, with Denver, Wyoming, Air Force and Northern Colorado additionally in attendance. The common season for the staff concludes Jan. 23 when it hosts Air Force.

Coach Christopher Woodard – getting into his 16^th season guiding this system – and his squad will moreover host three different house meets. Pac-12 foe Washington State and Colorado Mesa will present the competitors in a double-dual on Oct. 17. The Rams open November with a pair of house meets, the primary being the Border War was Wyoming, then internet hosting Northern Arizona the next day.

Colorado State will return to the Hawkeye Invitational (Nov. 17-20) for its mid-season competitors. It will open the second half of the season with a street journey to California to face fellow Pac-12 member Cal Baptist (Jan. 8), adopted by a double-dual with Pepperdine and Texas Rio Grande Valley the subsequent day.

The Rams’ divers will as soon as once more participate within the Air Force Diving Invitational (Jan. 28-30) for his or her last tuneup for postseason. The Pac-12 Championships will happen Feb. 24-27 in Houston.

Colorado State returns a trio of all-conference performers in Mia Axelman, Sydney Ovesen and Tess Whineray. Whineray grew to become the applications’ first NCAA Championships qualifier in 13 seasons final yr when she certified for the meet within the 100- and 200-yad backstrokes, successful a convention championship within the 200 occasion. The staff set six college data throughout the season, with Whineray being a part of all 4 relay marks along with her data set in each backstroke distances. Woodard’s squad added seven swimmers to the roster (one a switch), together with consensus top-20 recruit Kayda Geyer, who will characterize the United States on the 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships in August.