PREVIEW: #9/8 Swimming host #7/9 Wingate in top-10 Halloween showdown

Salisbury, N.C. — The ninth- and eighth-ranked Catawba College males’s and girls’s swimming groups host defending South Atlantic Conference champions Wingate in a twin meet at Johnson Pool on Friday in a possible preview of the 2026 SAC Swimming Championships because the league’s prime two applications.
 
THE MATCHUP
– Who: #7/9 Wingate at #9/8 Catawba
– Where: Johnson Pool, Salisbury, N.C.
– When: Friday, Oct. 31, 4 p.m.
 
LEAGUE TITANS
– Friday matches the SAC’s prime two swim applications
– Both groups are ranked inside the highest 10 of CSCAA’s Division II nationwide rankings
– The groups despatched a mixed 38 swimmers to the 2025 NCAA Division II National Championships
 
TOP SAC SHOWDOWNS
– Catawba presently holds seven of the highest occasions within the SAC as of Oct. 30 on the boys’s facet and 13 prime occasions on the ladies’s facet
– Maks Minichowski and Nazar Herashchenko maintain two of the highest time within the SAC apiece; Minichowski leads within the 100 Free and 200 Free, whereas Herashcenko is the quickest man within the SAC within the 500 Free and 1000 Free
– The Catawba Indian girls additionally dominate the freestyle occasions – Marit Reckmann leads the league with occasions within the 50 Free and the 100 Free and Fiona Byrne is the quickest girls within the SAC within the 500 Free and 1000 Free
 
THE LAST MEETING AT JOHNSON POOL
– Catawba’s males earned its first win over Wingate in program historical past on January 5, 2024 within the final assembly between the applications in Johnson Pool
– The Catawba girls picked up its first win over the Bulldogs since 1999 on the day as effectively for a historic sweep of the Bulldogs
– At the time, Catawba’s girls ranked twenty fourth within the nation, whereas the boys had been unranked– quick ahead two years, each groups rank prime 10
 
SCOUTING THE BULLDOGS
– Wingate entered because the preseason favourite to win the SAC Championship on each side
– The league famous Catawba’s surge within the SAC, as each Catawba Indians groups earned two first-place votes within the preseason ballot
– The Bulldogs did earn two slender victories over Division I Queens, whereas the Catawba Indians fell to the Royals in each matchups
 
UP NEXT
– Catawba Swimming returns to the pool on Saturday, once they journey to Kingsport, Tenn. on the website of this season’s SAC Championship meet, dealing with Milligan and Roanoke in a tri-meet beginning at midday