LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Bellarmine University men's and women's swimming teams will officially open their 2025-26 season this weekend, traveling to Indianapolis, IN for the IU Indy Double Dual at the IU Natatorium.

Action in the pool is set to begin at 11 am E.T. Bellarmine will join host IU Indy as well as Bowling Green State University, St. Louis, Xavier and Butler in the competition.

The Knights are led by head coach Gord Veldman who enters his third year at the helm of the program. In addition to Veldman, assistant coach Grace McCormick is back for her fifth season as an assistant. Veldman added to his staff this season, bringing in two former Knights in Sam Russell as a graduate assistant and Jacob Dray as a volunteer assistant coach.

On the men's side, seniors Liam Connelly, Cason Henderson, Caleb Howard, Sam Jones, Anthony Nasrallah, Jack Proctor and Drew Wolfram, juniors Brady Campbell, Evan Dickson, Colin Jackson, Evan Jones, Reece Pennington and Britton Pianki and sophomores David Diercks and Logan Lacombe all return for another year of competition. The roster features six newcomers in freshman Yael Bojalil, Cooper Burke, Ahmet Efe Inceoglu, João Kirchgässner, Zach May and Carter Souliere.

For the women, seniors Erin Dall-Agnol, Lauren Diercks and Lauren Peters, juniors Coral Brogan, Molly Bryan, Charlotte Tully and Lily Wolfe and sophomores Lily Epley, Micaela Godfrey, Ava Jones, Annie Leibold, Clara McIntyre, Kate Ryan and Lizzy Sosa are all back. The roster is rounded out with three freshman newcomers in Ava Dyer, Lilly Stiff and Kaja Vaadal.

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