Nanooks Swim Holds Blue/Gold and Alumni Meets This Week

FAIRBANKS – The Nanooks swimming group is again in motion this week with their annual Blue/Gold Intrasquad Meet on Friday, Sept. 25, at 5 p.m., adopted by an Alumni Meet the following morning at 10 a.m.

Friday, Sept. 25
Blue/Gold | 5 p.m. | Watch (Free)
Patty Center Pool | Fairbanks

Saturday, Sept. 26
Alumni Meet | 10 a.m.
Patty Center Pool | Fairbanks

Looking Back
The Nanooks broke a number of program information final season en path to a fifth-place end on the PCSC Championships and their first All-American end result since 2019. They tallied 751 factors eventually season’s convention championships, giving them their second consecutive fifth-place end. Cosima Schmiedel set this system document within the 200-yard butterfly on the meet, ending the finals of the occasion in 2:04.35 to place her fourth. Dorka Dancsok additionally set this system document within the 400-yard IM, posting a 4:23.31, which gave her the victory within the occasion.

Dancsok used her document time within the 400-yard IM to earn a spot on the NCAA Championships, the primary time a Nanook had certified for the championships since 2023-24, when Charlotte Fletcher-Stables competed within the 100-yard backstroke. Dancsok’s NCAA B-Cuts additionally allowed her to compete within the 100 and 200-yard breaststroke, together with the 200-yard IM. She recorded three top-30 finishes, inserting twenty fifth and twenty ninth within the 200-yard IM and 200-yard breaststroke, respectively. Her 14th-place end result within the 400-yard IM earned her All-American Second Team, Alaska’s first All-American since Oda Bygdnes in 2019.

Coach Ceglowski
The Alaska Nanooks introduced the hiring of recent head coach Riley Ceglowski this previous spring. Ceglowski arrived in Fairbanks after spending over a yr because the aquatics coordinator for the City of Fruita in Colorado. Before that, she served as head coach of the Adams State University males’s and girls’s swimming groups and the Ave Maria University swimming group.

#NookNotes

• The ‘Nooks return 10 swimmers from final yr’s roster: Dorka Dancsok, Kitti Marton, Giorgia Merlo, MacKenzie O’Keefe, Sariah Rodgers, Mayumi Schaetzle, Cosima Schmiedel, Mariia Sirotinskaia, Charisma Watkins and Talia Wentz. Additionally, Sam Bristor, who was on the ‘Nooks 2024-25 roster, makes her return to the squad.
• Alaska has introduced 5 new swimmers to this season’s group: Monica Botha, a freshman from Durban, South Africa; Marilia Persidou, a freshman from Drama, Greece; Zhenia Stukova, a freshman from Vinnytsia, Ukraine; Ava Thomas, a freshman from Grande Prairie, Alta.; and Zsófia Varga, a freshman from Budapest, Hungary.

Looking Ahead
The Nanooks formally start their season with a visit to California, beginning with a twin meet vs. Biola on Friday, Oct. 9, earlier than heading over to the University of Redlands for the Bulldog Pentathlon on Saturday, Oct. 10.

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