Nanooks Swimming Kicks off Common Season With Twin Meets at Fresno Pacific

FAIRBANKS – The Nanooks swimming crew is about for 2 twin meets at fellow PCSC crew Fresno Pacific this week, formally kicking off their 2025-26 season.

Friday, Oct. 3
at Fresno Pacific | 4:00 p.m. AKT
Sunnyside Aquatic Center | Fresno, Calif.

Saturday, Oct. 4
at Fresno Pacific | 8:00 a.m. AKT
Sunnyside Aquatic Center | Fresno, Calif.

Last Time Out
The ‘Nooks had been again within the pool for the primary time this season on Sept. 19-20 with their annual Blue/Gold intrasquad meet, the place they competed in 17 occasions over two days of competitors. Gold picked up the 157-152 win, tallying eight occasion victories. Dorka Dancsok led the best way with three particular person victories, successful the 100-yard backstroke (1:01.75), 200-yard butterfly (2:20.96) and 200-yard backstroke (2:16.53).

#NookNotes

• Alaska has seven returners who will swim for them within the 2025-26 season. Dorka Dancsok, Eva Markovic, Janci Pangburn, Ali Pecore, Sariah Rodgers, Kaidence Sampsel and Charisma Watkins all return to the roster.
• The Nanooks have eight new swimmers for the upcoming season, as Macy Ahrens, Guielsie Borbon, McKenzie Fazio, Kitti Marton, Giorgia Merlo, MacKenzie O’Keefe, Mariia Sirotinskaia and Talia Wentz all be part of the squad.
• The Nanooks swimming crew was honored previous to their Blue/Gold meet on Friday, Sept. 19, with an honorarium quotation from the members of the Thirty-Fourth Alaska State Legislature. The honorarium acknowledged the Nanooks for his or her choice as a College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) Fall 2024 Scholar All-America Team.

Meet the Opponent
Fresno Pacific Sunbirds
Head Coach: Raymond Eggert, 1st Season

• The Fresno Pacific girls’s swimming crew is coming off of an eighth place end eventually 12 months’s PCSC Championships, tallying 374 factors on the convention championship.
• They are led by first-year head coach Raymond Eggert, who swam for the Sunbirds from 2008-2011.
• The Nanooks received each their twin meets in opposition to the FPU Sunbirds final season, successful by scores of 145-59 and 147-57. 
• The ‘Nooks maintain a 3-0 document in opposition to the Sunbirds because the 2013-14 season, additionally defeating the Sunbirds 155-119 in a quad meet in 2014.

Looking Ahead
The Nanooks are off for 3 weeks following their twin meets in opposition to FPU, with the squad returning to Fairbanks on Oct. 24-25 for twin meets in opposition to Puget Sound. They’re again within the Patty Center Pool the next weekend for 2 extra duals in opposition to Simon Fraser.

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