Girls’s Swimming Season Preview – Randolph College

LYNCHBURG, Va. – The Randolph girls’s swimming staff is able to dive into the 2025-26 season with a mixture of veteran management and new faces. The WildCats enter the 12 months trying to make their mark within the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC).

Co-Head coaches Lee Lewis and Greg Hofmann return on the helm as this system has continued to construct depth and competitiveness. 

For the ladies’s staff, Randolph brings again a core of skilled seven returners, reminiscent of Katelyn Spuchesi, who holds a number of college information. Last season, on the ODAC Championships, she swam a season finest and broke the college file within the 400 Yard IM in a time of 4:53.59 to put twelfth within the occasion. Kaitlyn Heckman was a finalist at ODACs within the 200 Back with a private finest of two:20.86 within the finals for Sixteenth-place. Taylor Eshelman swam a number of private bests together with being a part of the file breaking squad of the 800 Free Relay together with Spuchesi and Heckman. The staff brings in 4 new swimmers so as to add to their depth.

Randolph will compete in a full slate of twin meets, invitationals, and convention match ups all through the season, constructing in the direction of the ODAC Championships in February. 

The ‘Cats start their season on Saturday, Oct. 4, on the annual ODAC Relays hosted by Washington and Lee University. The groups’ house opener is Oct. 11 at 1 p.m.