Youngstown, Ohio \u2014\u00a0The early portion of Youngstown State’s 2026-27 swimming and diving season continues this week with a two-day meet at Oakland. The Penguins and Golden Grizzlies will compete in the first session at the OU Aquatic Center in Rochester, Mich., at 5 p.m. on Friday, and they’ll be back in the pool at 10 a.m. on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Youngstown State opened its new era under head coach Hannah Saiz<\/a> on Sept. 11-12 against IU Indy and Cleveland State in Indianapolis. In the earliest start to a season in program history, the Penguins got a glimpse at two Horizon League opponents, and they will get a look at another this weekend against Oakland. Both Golden Grizzlies teams were selected as the favorites in the 2026-27 Horizon League Swimming and Diving Preseason Poll.<\/p>\n Recapping Last Meet<\/p>\n
Meet Schedule<\/p>\n Session 1: Friday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n
Session 2: Saturday at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n
Up Next<\/p>\n Youngstown State’s next meet will be the Zips Classic at Akron on Oct. 16-17.\u00a0For more information on YSU’s swimming and diving programs, follow @ysuswimdive on Instagram, Facebook and X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Youngstown, Ohio \u2014\u00a0The early portion of Youngstown State’s 2026-27 swimming and diving season continues this week with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-482580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\tTop 10 Entries: The Penguins made four new entries onto their top-10 all-time list at the season-opening meet, all by newcomers. On the men’s team, Nathan Spetz’s<\/a> time of 4:06.04 in the 400 IM ranks eighth in program history, Joey Chang’s<\/a> time of 45.60 in the 100 free ranks 10th and Elijah Dredge’s<\/a> time of 1:55.11 in the 200 back ranks 10th. For the women, Lily Ho’s<\/a> time of 27.31 in the 50 back to lead off the 200 medley relay ranks eighth in program history.
\n\tTop Finishers: Spetz and Olivia Sweetman<\/a> both posted a pair of third-place individual finishes in the season-opening meet. Spetz’s third-place finishes came in the 500 free and the 400 IM, while Sweetman placed third in the 500 free and 1,000 free. Chloe Moore<\/a> recorded three top-five finishes, placing third in the 100 free and fifth in both the 50 free and 100 fly.
\n\tNewcomer Debuts:\u00a0There were 14 new swimmers and two new divers who made their Youngstown State debuts at the meet. Competing in their first meet on YSU’s women’s team were\u00a0Tova Axelsson<\/a>, Lexxi Chavez<\/a> (diving), Sage Gillibrand<\/a>,\u00a0Lily Ho<\/a>,\u00a0Kylie Kwoka<\/a>, Isobel Munnoch<\/a> and\u00a0Elif Tetik<\/a>. Men making their debuts for the Penguins included\u00a0Jaxon Arenholz<\/a>,\u00a0Joey Chang<\/a>,\u00a0Elijah Dredge<\/a>,\u00a0Henry Geitz<\/a>,\u00a0Sam Grojean<\/a>,\u00a0Jeremy Mitchell<\/a> (diving),\u00a0Adam Speedie<\/a>, Nathan Spetz<\/a> and Zachary Totin<\/a>.
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\n\t200 Medley
\n\t400 IM
\n\t200 Free
\n\t100 Fly
\n\t100 Breast
\n\t50 Free
\n\t500 Free
\n\t100 Back
\n\t400 Free Relay
\n\tMen’s 1-Meter Diving
\n\tWomen’s 3-Meter Diving
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\n\t400 Medley Relay
\n\t1000 Free
\n\t200 IM
\n\t200 Back
\n\t100 Free
\n\t200 Fly
\n\t200 Breast
\n\t200 Free Relay
\n\tMen’s 3-Meter Diving
\n\tWomen’s 1-Meter Diving
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