Swim Heading to Drury for Season Opener this Weekend

By: Ryan Luttrell, Director of Athletic Communications

SPRINGFIELD, MO  —  Missouri S&T Swimming is able to start a brand new season after a profitable 2024-25 marketing campaign that resulted in a number of damaged faculty data and a second-place end at Nationals for Connor Bichsel (Lee’s Summit, MO/Lee’s Summit West) within the 400-yard particular person medley.

Bichsel is again for his senior season with the Miners and must be S&T’s largest contributor this season. Fellow seniors Jordan Christensen (Coralville, IA/Iowa West) and Marco Flores (San Pedro Sula, Honduras/SERAN Private Bilingual School) will probably be two different swimmers to observe this yr, with each males incomes All-America honors in earlier seasons. Flores is making his return to the Great Lakes Valley Conference after a 5-year break, final competing within the 2019-20 season the place he earned All-America within the 200-yard medley relay. Other returners to observe this yr will probably be Adam Wiedemeier (West Monroe, LA/West Monroe), Oscar Iden (Oslo, Norway/Oslo Private Gymnasium), Oskar Fridsell (Solna, Sweden/Solna Gymnasium), and Kevin Williams (Houston, TX/Westside).

The Miners will face one in all their hardest assessments of the season of their opener, competing towards the Drury Panthers who’ve gained the GLVC title a document seven instances with their most up-to-date championship coming final yr.

What’s Next

The Miners will head to William Jewell subsequent week for an additional matchup towards a GLVC opponent.

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