College Swimmers
Class of 2021
Max Zuanich
Southern Methodist University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: At sectionals all of National group playing signs at the hotel and having fun. We bonded as a team, cheered for every race and it made all of us have fun and swim faster.
Advice to young swimmers: You swim because it's fun. Learn to relax and have a nothing to lose mentality.
Emma Clark
University of South Dakota
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Dropping time at NCSA's from lane 1 and seeing everyone cheering for me. The team really bonded on that trip and I'll never forget it!
Advice to young swimmers: Your happiness is the most important thing. Don't get in your head, it's just swimming. Don't give up and push yourself. This is how you will succeed.
Aleksa Radenovic
Youngstown State
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Karaoke night at Justice's church!! Kendal as Justin Bieber.
Advice to young swimmers: Be patient. Sometimes you will make your biggest improvements when you least expect it.
Kara Moss
Trinity University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Van rides during travel trips. They were a lot of fun.
Advice to young swimmers: Enjoy the moments with your friends in and out of the pool.
Nabila Argueta
Colorado College
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Travel trip to Calgary and then Banff. It was great to have fun with my team mates and get to bond with them.
Advice to young swimmers: Having a positive mindset can take you far. Focus on the little things and trust the process.
Justice Wenz
Wabash College
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar and John McClure
Favorite Memory: Simply loved being part of the team! Hanging out with the boys and going out to eat.
Advice to young swimmers: Treasure and celebrate every aspect of swimming. One day you'll look back and wish you could go back.
Class of 2020
Will Sampson
University of Chicago
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Staying up the last night of NCSA's Jr. Nationals with team mates.
Advice to young swimmers: Appreciate the lessons swimming teaches you: Good work ethic, time management, focus, perseverance, working with others, etc. These lessons will help you in life.
Sydney Buchman
Kenyon College
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: The whole national group playing Just Dance in the hotel room after the last night of NCSA's.
Advice to young swimmers: Have fun at meets and don't put pressure on yourself to always go best times. Meets should be a time to support your teammates and make memories while doing something you love!
Peyton Pivec
Bates College
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: John McClure
Favorite Memory: Swimming the Turkey Shoot-Out before Thanksgiving every year.
Advice to young swimmers: Do the little things right in practice so it all comes together in a race.
Alyssa Basaldua
Colorado State Pueblo
Senior Coach: John McClure
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Noah Czelusta
Columbia University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Traveling to Calgary twice with the team. Hiking around Lake Louise was awesome!
Advice to young swimmers: Learn how to manage your time and perfect your technique.
Ellie Mcleod
University of Texas
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: The 50 free elimination shoot-out in Canada and 2017 NCSA Jr. nationals.
Advice to young swimmers: Enjoy the process and slow down to appreciate the special moments you have in the sport. Love the fact that you get the opportunity to be part of this sport.
Class of 2019
Jeff de Groot
Emory University
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Being part of the 2018 NCSA Jr. Nationals relays.
Advice to young swimmers: Trust your coach and yourself.
Andreas Mason
Boston University
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar and Carleigh Kutac
Favorite Memory: Intense dancing before relays at big meets.
Advice to young swimmers: Work hard and leave room for fun.
Caleb Duncan
University of Louisville
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Swimming the 200 medley relay at 2018 NCSA Jr. Nationals.
Advice to young swimmers: remember, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
Sophie Newell
Drexel University
Age Group Coach: Jane Swanson and Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: NCSA Jr. National relays with my girls!
Advice to young swimmers: Always trust your coach.
Fernanda Gamez
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
favorite Memory: Going to Banff and using the canoes in Lake Louise.
Advice to young swimmers: One way or another hard work always pays off
Emma Stephenson
Texas A&M
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: My 100 free at Sectionals when I went 50.00.
Advice to young swimmers: You don't have to swim, you get to swim! Don't be so outcome oriented. Focus on the process and the results will come.
Hannah Kral
Southwestern University
Senior Coach: John McClure and Carleigh Kutac
Favorite Memory: Saturday morning practices
Advice to young swimmers: Don't stress out about swimming. This will only hurt you. Have fun instead.
Audrey Orange
Brown University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Playing trivia in the van on the way to meets.
Advice to young swimmers: Swimming is full of highs and lows, just make sure that when you are having a tough time in practice to stick it out and work even harder.
Class of 2018
Aria Bernal
University of Arizona
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: 50 back finals at NCSA Jr. Nationals. My team mates were lined up to cheer for me.
Advice to young swimmers: If you're not dead you can still push through. "A moment of pain is worth a lifetime of glory"
Claire Smith
Texas A&M University
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Winter Jr. Nationals van rides with coach Rey and the team. Something memorable happened every time we got in the van.
Advice to young swimmers: Never give up. No matter how tough it gets or how rough your season is, never stop trying to be the best swimmer you can be.
Clayton Bobo
Texas A&M University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Joel Beard
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Spending time with my teammates on travel trips in the van or hotel.
Advice to young swimmers: There will be highs and lows in the sport but keep working hard and enjoying the sport and you will always end up succeeding.
Mark Shoemaker
Loyola University Maryland
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Jane Swanson
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: 2017 travel trip to Canada and visiting Banff after the meet was over.
Advice to young swimmers: Always stay positive. It will help you get through challenging practices and seasons.
Morgen Reyna
Trinity University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar, Amy Jones
Favorite Memory: Our Canada travel trip and staying with our host families.
Advice to young swimmers: Make great memories with your teammates. They will become your long-time best friends.
Nathan O'Neil
Colorado School of Mines
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Our Sectional travel trips
Advice to young swimmers: Working hard at practice is a lot more fun when you do it with friends and stay lighthearted.
Class of 2017
Ellie Vincent
Tulane University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: getting breakfast with the team at Buffalo Grill after Saturdays' practices.
Advice to young swimmers: Swim for yourself and make it fun; be a supportive teammate because you will make some lifelong friends with swimming.
Cooper Wozencraft
University of Virginia
Age Group Coach: Jane Swanson, Jason Devine, Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Going to the water park and Universal Studios after NCSA Jr. Nationals in Orlando.
Advice to young swimmers: If you are struggling to drop time or go through an injury just stick with it and keep a positive mind set. You will come out better than ever.
Kaley Hoffman
University of Houston
Age Group: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: When coach Rey made a bet with our medley relay at Jr. Nationals about getting pedicures if we beat one of rival teams.
Advice for young swimmers: Give your best effort and never give up.
Mallory Minear
Southern Illinois University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite Memory: Dad’s Club Lock-in and all our travel trips.
Advice to young swimmers: The best swimmers are the ones having fun. Be a hard worker, but have fun doing it.
Class of 2016
Jack Calderwood
Georgetown University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Andrew Wright, Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: Playing Volleyball on Saturday mornings followed by team breakfast
Riley Carson
Air Force Academy
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Rey Aguilar, Jane Swanson
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: My last 1,650 at spring NCSA Jr. Nationals
Caddie Dull
Texas Christian University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Andrew Wright, Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: Winning the 800 free relay at Tags and getting top 10 in the nation.
Dylan Presswood
Sewanee University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Rey Aguilar, Jane Swanson
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: Winning the 100 free final at the Richard Quick Invite and getting the t-shirt for winning heat.
Erika Stephenson
University of Incarnate Word
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Andrew Wright, Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: In Ft. Lauderdale when we befriended a cop and got him to trick Coach Rey that we were all in legal trouble
Charis Won
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: San Antonio Sr. Circuit when we traveled as a team and summer sectionals when Audrey Orange made the pump-up video.
James Zetka
Grand Valley State
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar, Amy Jones
Favorite memory: NCSA Jr. Nationals in Florida and going to the water parks and Universal Studios afterwards.
Class of 2015
Alexandra Buscher
Texas A&M University
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Andrew Wright, Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: Playing a prank on Riley during Jr Nationals when we made him believe he was psychic. This illustrates the fun times at Dad's and how we didn't stop having fun even at the high level meets.
Elizabeth Jordana
Texas A&M University
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: When Coach Rey would guess what numbers someone was thinking and playing trivia in the van to establish the pecking order.
Jack Rogers
Bucknell University
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: During our Auburn travel trip when I got my first NCSA Junior National time in the 200 free. It was one of the best races I ever swam, it felt amazing the whole time.
Meghan Parsons
Bowdoin College
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Andrew Wright, Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: being on the blocks for finals and seeing all my team mates cheering for me by the side of the pool holding a poster I’d made.
Maddie Robinson
Washington University of St. Louis
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: Meeting my best friends
Elena Skaribas
Southern Methodist University
Age Group Coach: Andrew Wright, Jason Devine
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: 2015 NCSA Junior Nationals in Orlando and winning Tags with my team mates Alex, Jordan and Caddie in the 4x200 free relay.
Annie Miller
College of William & Mary
Age Group Coach: Jason Devine, Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: Making the 50 free Shoot-out at the Pro-Am meet in Oklahoma and having fun with my friends at meets.
Class of 2014
Briana Burns
Colorado School of Mines
Age Group Coach: Andrew Wright & Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: In Ft. Lauderdale when we befriended a cop and got him to trick Coach Rey that we were all in legal trouble
Samuel Cordoba
Trinity University
Age Group Coach: Andrew Wright & Rey Aguilar
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: Our first team lock-in and all the scary stories we told
Brandon Hay
UT of the Permian Basin
Senior Coach: Rey Aguilar
Favorite memory: The Boca Raton travel trip in 2012.
Tyler Goulding
Carnegie Mellon Univerity
Senior Coach: Amy Jones and Regina Aguilar