Swimming & Diving Hosts WashU Saturday in Season-Opening Meet

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ST. LOUIS – Led by first-year head coach Ryan McCoy, the Saint Louis University swimming and diving groups open the 2025-26 season Saturday, Sept. 27, in opposition to Washington University at Simon Recreation Center. The meet begins at midday with the diving competitors.

 

The Billikens welcome again 39 student-athletes (24 males, 15 ladies) from their 2024-25 squads. The males’s workforce additionally consists of 5 freshmen, whereas the ladies’s workforce options 11 newcomers (10 freshmen, one switch).

 

Among the Billikens’ returnees are 17 rivals (10 males, seven ladies) who scored in particular person occasions and/or relays on the 2025 Atlantic 10 Conference Championships. Two of the 17 are swimmers who completed among the many prime eight in an occasion – Brae Sanchez (fifth within the 100 breast) and Logan Townsend (fifth within the 200 free).

 

Townsend (14th within the 100 free), Noah Benton (tenth within the 400 IM, sixteenth within the 1650 free), Ben Mears (twelfth in 3-meter diving, 14th in 1-meter diving) and Zach Byars (twelfth within the 200 again, sixteenth within the 100 again) have been multiple-event scorers.

 

Saint Louis additionally returns a number of swimmers who established college information a 12 months in the past. Sanchez and Kenna Cashman set college marks within the males’s 100 breast and ladies’s 100 breast, respectively. Sanchez was joined by Colton Mosley and Evan Crim on the record-setting males’s 200 medley relay squad, whereas Cashman, Sarah Dingus, Meghan Eng and Hanna Whitney broke the SLU ladies’s 200 medley relay mark.

 

Following the twin meet with Washington University, the Billikens host UMSL on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 5:30 p.m. Saint Louis’ dwelling schedule additionally features a tri-meet with Southwest Baptist and Rockhurst Nov. 1 and a pair of duals with Omaha Jan. 16-17.