Swimming and Diving 2025-26 Season Outlook

BEREA, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University males’s and girls’s swimming and diving groups, underneath the management of veteran head coach Laura Demaline, are poised for an thrilling 2025–26 marketing campaign as they set their sights on the Ohio Athletic Conference Championship.

On the boys’s aspect Coach Demaline, who enters her fifteenth season, returns one All-Ohio Athletic Conference performer and one Academic All-OAC honoree from final yr’s squad that positioned fourth on the 2025 OAC Championships. 

All-OAC Returner

• Senior stroker Tyler Warner (Mexico, N.Y.) earned his first profession All-OAC honor as he took second within the 1-meter and 11-dive occasion, in his first season on the board.  In addition, he set a career-best time within the 1650-yard freestyle.

Veteran Men Returners

For the ladies’s squad, Coach Demaline and her workers, who had been the 2025 OAC Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year, welcome again the OAC Female Diver of the Year, seven All-OAC performers and three Academic All-OAC honorees from final yr’s group that took second on the 2025 OAC Championships.

All-OAC Returners

• Sophomore Makenna Mincey (Brunswick/Magnificat) is the returning OAC Diver of the Year.  Mincey gained the 1-meter and was the runner-up within the 3-meter to earn convention accolades in each occasions.  She set the BW Natatorium file within the 1-meter for 11-dives.
• Sophomore Emmalie Mitzel (Massillon/Jackson) was the runner-up within the 1-meter and took third within the 3-meter to earn league honors in each occasions.   Mitzel was additionally the OAC Diver of the Month for November.
• Junior Ella Steen (Madison/Riverside) claimed her third league accolade as she took third within the 1-meter.  Steen was the champion within the 1-meter and took third within the 3-meter in 2024 to earn her first two convention honors.
• Sophomore Brooke Radcliff (North Canton/Hoover) positioned third within the 200-yard backstroke to earn her first league accolade.  Radcliff additionally earned convention honors as a member of 4 relay groups, together with the school-record holding 200-yard freestyle.
• Senior Mallory Upcraft (Oswego, N.Y.) earned three league honors as a member of three relay groups, together with the school-record holding 200-yard freestyle.
• Sophomore Amelia Wands (East Amherst, N.Y./Williamsville North) earned three convention honors as a member of three relay groups, together with the school-record holding 200-yard freestyle. Wands was additionally the OAC Swimmer of the Week on October 21.
• Senior Ariel Lisy (Strongsville) claimed her first league honor as a member of 400-yard freestyle relay group in 2024.

Veteran Women Returners

BW opens the 2025-26 season on Saturday, October 18 when it hosts an OAC twin meet in opposition to Wilmington College within the BW Natatorium contained in the Lou Higgins Center at 1 p.m.