Recent-Look Rams Open Season with Invite

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FORT COLLINS  – A brand new season for the Rams. A dozen new Rams for the season.
 
Colorado State’s ladies’s swimming and diving group opens the 2025-26 marketing campaign with the Front Range Invitational this weekend with coach Christopher Woodard introducing the most important freshman class of his 15-year tenure — 12 sturdy — because the group competes in opposition to Air Force, Northern Colorado, Wyoming and Denver this weekend at two venues. The meet takes place Friday and Saturday, with swimming occasions at DU, diving on the Academy. Competition begins at 5 p.m., on Friday, 11 a.m. on Saturday.
 
The roster options 4 rivals with All-Mountain West pedigree (Erin Dawson, Maggie Di Scipio, Lexie Trietley and Tess Whineray), and Woodard is hoping the infusion of recent blood will alter the course of the season.
 
“I’m hopeful, and I think also recognizing we’re trying to build on something. (Dawson and Trietley) have been a large part of building a foundation for the program and the expectations to basically not be viewed as an underdog but be viewed as a legitimate contender to any opponent,” Woodard stated. “But we recognize culture changes, and it constantly evolves so we recognize that the foundation is great, but we need to bring in a lot of new blood and so we’re really eager to see what these 12 can do. That’s not typical for us but we felt that the personnel is out there and can help us in a lot of different ways.”
 
The freshman class makes it the most important roster for Woodard in 5 seasons. Three of the freshmen are divers, bringing the quantity within the properly as much as six and a big group for brand spanking new diving coach Seth O’Dea to work with.
 
Dawson, a three-time Mountain West champion and the two-time defending title holder within the 400-yard particular person medley, understands the turnover is nice whereas understanding the payoffs might be better.-
 
“I think it’s really exciting because it’s quite literally half of our team and it reminds me a lot of my freshman year when I had a bigger team,” Dawson stated. “I think we’re going to have a lot of depth which I’m really excited about, especially coming off a season where we didn’t have a lot of people. I just think it’s really exciting.”
 
A dash freestyle specialist, Trietley enters her remaining season with 5 All-Mountain West honors in her profession. Being a senior, she feels a part of her duties are to assist educate the freshman class how the Rams go about  their enterprise in follow, at meets and through conditioning.
 
As for her notions of closing her profession sturdy, her solely focus is on making her final season memorable after the Rams completed seventh on the Mountain West Championships in 2024 following a 6-3 twin slate.
 
“I don’t think I have any pressure or added pressure or expectations since my last year. I just want to have fun and leave it all out in the pool and just see what I can do,” she stated. “It’ll be the last time I ever compete again with swimming, so I’m just excited to see what we can do this year.”
 
 
After utilizing the primary competitors to set a marker, the Rams will host their first house meet of the season Oct. 24 at Edora Pool Ice Center, going through Denver and Colorado Mesa.
 


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