Both Lenoir-Rhyne Swim Groups Picked to End Fourth within the South Atlantic Convention

Both the boys’s and girls’s swim groups have been picked to complete fourth within the SAC by the convention’s coaches.

The Vic Riggs period has already begun in Hickory, with the boys’s and girls’s groups already competing in opposition to Converse and Wingate. The ladies picked up their first victory of the season at Converse, coming away with the 148-131 win.

Both the boys’s and girls’s groups had three people named to the “swimmers to watch” checklist. Addison Bartemeyer, Ella Penny, Chloe Vestal made up the ladies’s honorees whereas Wyatt Herger, Christopher Glebus, and Renato Herran have been the boys’s.

The Bears proceed convention motion this week after they journey to Mars Hill on Saturday for a battle with the Lions. Their first residence meet might be on Saturday, January tenth, in opposition to Wheeling.

2025-26 SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE MEN’S SWIMMING PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
1. Wingate – 18 factors (3 first-place votes)
2. Catawba – 17 factors (2 first-place votes)
3. Carson-Newman – 16 factors
4. Lenoir-Rhyne – 11 factors
5. Mars Hill – 8 factors

2025 SOUTH ATLANTIC CONFERENCE WOMEN’S SWIMMING PRESEASON COACHES’ POLL
1. Wingate – 18 factors (3 first-place votes)
2. Catawba – 17 factors (2 first-place votes)
3. Carson-Newman – 16 factors
4. Lenoir-Rhyne – 10 factors
5. Mars Hill – 9 factors

{Information supplied by Lenoir-Rhyne Athletics}