Swim & Dive Lifts Lid on 2025-26 Marketing campaign In opposition to Cal State East Bay, Fresno Pacific

STOCKTON, Calif. – The Pacific swim and dive program opens up the 2025-26 marketing campaign with the ladies on the street in opposition to Cal State East Bay at midday on Friday at Pioneer Pool, adopted by a mixed meet in opposition to Fresno Pacific at midday on Saturday on the Eberhardt Aquatics Center.

Under the seventh-year management of Pacific head coach Katelyne Herrington, the Tigers look to construct upon a convention championship on the boys’s facet whereas retooling each squads with revamped and recharged rosters.

“We’re really excited to open up our season with two meets this week,” Herrington stated. “The team has been in a strong block of training, and this is a great opportunity to see where we’re at and identify areas we can continue to build on as the season progresses. With so many first-year athletes, it’s going to be especially valuable in helping us learn more about them in a competitive setting.”

The Tigers will probably be making a splash with diving for the primary time in program historical past as they may earn diving factors towards their staff rating in opposition to the Sun Birds and never in opposition to the Pioneers. Junior Lexxi Chavez represents Pacific’s solely diver at the moment as she appears to be like to make her mark in her first look on the boards in orange and black. Chavez spent the final two years diving at CSU Bakersfield.

On the swimming facet of issues, junior Kate Geiger and senior Lilliana Noriega look to guide the ladies’s staff after sturdy performances throughout their 2024-25 campaigns. 11 new girls’s swimmers will take the pool for the primary time as Tigers, together with a trio of worldwide ones in freshman Michela Portelli, freshman Ava Harlos and redshirt junior Laureen Roussel. The group will probably be anchored by the veteran presences of senior Annelise Thomas and junior Amanda Schweichler.

One returning Tiger to regulate is sophomore Christina Agiomamitou, who was named Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Women’s Freshman Swimmer of the Year final season. The native of Nicosia, Cyprus tallied 53 particular person factors on the 2025 MPSF Championships, fourth-most in your complete meet and greater than every other first-year competitor. She additionally helped the Tigers win a number of races for big quantities of factors all through final season.

The males will probably be led by captains Ethan Cole and Dante Dentino, in addition to the return of senior Mattia Giurgevich. The three all have been a key a part of Pacific’s first-ever MPSF convention championship final season, taking down Incarnate Word by a 331-290 margin.

Giurgevich will look to spearhead the boys’s efforts after incomes a gold and a silver medal on the National Invitational Championships final yr. The native of Limbiate, Italy recorded a private finest with a time of 24.39 within the 50 breast on the opening day and in addition notched second place within the 100 breast, clocking a time of 53.45.

Like the ladies, the boys will see many new faces hit the water on Saturday in opposition to Fresno Pacific. A dozen contemporary males’s swimmers are anticipated to make their Pacific debuts after they host FPU in Stockton.

Before the house opener, the Tigers will make the brief drive to Hayward, California the place they may meet the Pioneers for the sixth time since 2019. Pacific owns a 4-1 report in that span over CSUEB, together with final yr’s 195-66 house victory.

Pacific and Fresno Pacific see one another for the fifth assembly and fourth straight season for the reason that 2019-2020 marketing campaign. The Tigers have gained each head-to-head meet on each the boys’s and ladies’s sides in opposition to the Sun Birds. On Sept. 28, 2024, the boys earned a dominant 209-52 win whereas the ladies solid a 205-50 victory.

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