PREVIEW | Ladies’s swimming hoping to show expertise into success in 2025-26

KUTZTOWN, Pa. – Kutztown University girls’s swimming options 16 returnees on its 2025-26 roster and can search for that wealth of expertise to translate into an increase within the staff standings on the PSAC Championships.
 
The Golden Bears are coming off a Tenth-place end on the 2025 PSAC Championships however loved a number of highlights that can be utilized as constructing blocks for the brand new season.
 
A majority of KU’s PSAC level scorers are again, led by senior Annamarie Rodier (Mount Laurel, N.J./Lenape).
 
Rodier tallied a team-high 62 factors with high finishes of ninth within the 400-yard particular person medley and 1650-yard freestyle. The Mount Laurel, N.J., native ranks second in program historical past within the 400 IM with a time of 4:39.24.
 
Tatum Rothermel (Halifax, Pa./Halifax) totaled 24 factors, second most on the staff, by advantage of her spectacular seventh-place swim within the 200 breaststroke. The junior from Halifax, Pa., was the lone Golden Bear to qualify for an ‘A’ Final on the 2025 convention meet, bettering by 11 spots over her 18th-place end in the identical occasion as a sophomore. Rothermel additionally picked up some extent within the 100 breast and ranks within the high 10 in KU historical past in each the 100- and 200-yard occasions, together with her 2:26.21 within the 200 sitting fourth all-time.
 
Fellow junior Birta Smaradottir (Mosfellsbær, Iceland/Commercial College of Iceland) had a breakout season by scoring in three occasions and setting program high 10 occasions in all three. Smaradottir ranks fourth within the 400 particular person medley (4:44.89), fifth within the 200 breast (2:29.44) and eighth within the 200 IM (2:12.93). She was 18th, twentieth and twenty second in these occasions at PSACs.
 
Senior Ana Soto (Hamburg, N.J./Vernon Township) completed high 20 within the convention within the 50 free (18th) and 100 free (twentieth). She acquired again within the pool on the PSAC Championships to swim a time trial within the 50 free and wound up breaking Elizabeth Thoryk’s 29-year old fashioned file of 24.25 with a 24.19.
 
Frannie Pease-Wingenter (Goodyear, Ariz./Millennium) additionally noticed success within the 50 free with a Nineteenth-place displaying at PSACs and the fourth-fastest time in program historical past (24.32).
 
Juniors Lorelei Grove (Red Lion, Pa./Red Lion) and Camryn Sedora (Chester, Md./Kent Island) every registered factors within the 1650 free by inserting twentieth and twenty first, respectively.
 
Along with the upperclassmen, head coach Tim Flannery, now in his twenty ninth season, noticed a few of final yr’s newcomers make a right away impression.
 
Sarah Zeminski (West Chester, Pa./West Chester East) set the third-best time in staff historical past within the 200 fly on the Franklin & Marshall Invitational final November (2:11.84) and went on to complete Sixteenth within the occasion at PSACs. Kara Damico (Brookhaven, Pa./Sun Valley) turned in high 5 program occasions within the 100 fly (fourth, 58.64) and 50 free (24.33) and was a ‘C’ Final qualifier in each occasions on the convention meet. Phoebe Armes (Somerset, UK/Millfield School) secured a Sixteenth-place end within the 200 IM at PSACs and posted KU high 10s within the 200 IM (seventh, 2:11.83) and 100 again (eighth, 1:00.97).
 
Damico, Soto, Armes and Pease-Wingenter put up a college file time of 1:36.61 in a 200 free relay time trial on the PSAC meet after inserting seventh within the scored occasion. The Bears additionally had sturdy performances within the 400 free relay, the place Soto, Rodier, Damico and Pease-Wingenter swam a 3:34.67 to rank second in staff historical past, simply 1.01 seconds off the college file from 2010, and the 200 medley relay, with Armes, Rothermel, Damico and Pease-Wingenter recording the fifth-best time at KU (1:49.27).
 
Five new swimmers have joined the Golden Bears from the highschool ranks and can look make their mark in tandem with the returnees to assist the staff obtain its objectives in the course of the upcoming season.
 
Kutztown kicks off the brand new marketing campaign with a house meet towards Shippensburg tonight, Sept. 24, at 5 p.m. The Golden Bears may even be residence for tri-meets with Bloomsburg and Edinboro on Saturday, Nov. 1, and Arcadia and Kean on Saturday, Dec. 6.
 
The PSAC Championships will once more be held in York, Pa., on the Graham Aquatic Center, Feb. 18-21.