Swimming & Diving Sending Five to the CSCAA National Open Water Championships
Dec 12, 2025 | Women's Swimming and Diving
NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane swimming & diving team will be represented by five qualifiers at the 2025 College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) National Open Water Championships on Saturday, Dec. 13, in Sarasota, Florida at Nathan Benderson Park in a meet starting at  9:30 a.m.
The live stats for the meet can be followed on Meet Mobile, which is a subscription phone-only live stat app. The CSCAA will also have results posted on their website following the action.
Tulane is sending qualifiers Mary Kate Kupsky, Sydney Mullin, Lise Coetzee, Varvara Gkiouzepa Petropoulou, and Layla Allen to the meet. Mullin, Coetzee, Petropoulou, and Allen helped lead Tulane to a fifth-place finish in last year's Open Water Championships. Coetzee was the team's highest finisher in the competition in 18th place.
"We are excited to once again compete with a full team at the CSCAA Open Water Championships," assistant swimming coach Canaan Campbell explained. "This a great opportunity to shine the spotlight on a developing event within collegiate athletics and kick start the back half of our season. This group is excited and ready to take on the competition in Sarasota."
The meet is a 500 free swim. Individual championships will be crowned. Also, the event will recognize individual champions in each division and awards will be given to the 1st – 8th finisher in each event. The women's 5K begins at 9:30 a.m. (CT) and follows the men's race in the event to start the day. The total entries are limited to 175 per gender. USA Swimming has designated the event as an approved qualifying event. The top-five finishers for each gender earn invites to the USA Swimming 5K Open Water Championships.
The qualifying standards are 5:10.0 (500 free), 10:30.00 (1000 free), 18:00.00 (1650), and 1:09.00 (5K).
Last time out in the team's three-day meet in Houston at the prestigious Phill Hansel Invitational from Nov. 19-21, Tulane had a 108 season bests, 33 lifetime bests, 25 NIC B cuts, three NIC A cuts, nine top-10 school marks and 20 top 10 event marks. The NIC A cuts came from Eliza Lennox in the 50 free (22.63) and the 100 free (53.96) and the 200 medley relay team of Andrea Zeebe, Paula Gaya Bisquerra, Lennox and Rafaela Sumida (1:41.26). The school top 10 marks were recorded by Lennox (3rd - 50 free, 3rd - 100 fly & 2nd – 100 free),  Marin Shimkus (6th – 100 back), Bisquerra (4th – 100 breast & 6th in the 200 breast), Ebba Holgersson (6th – 100 breast), Danielle Barberie (4th – 200 breast), and Taylor Cekay (6th – platform diving).
The next team competition for the program is at the UNLV Invitational from Dec. 15-17 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The program finished the 2024-25 season with 54 top 10 school marks including 10 school records. The team also won six events, had 28 overall all conference marks, a placing of third overall at the league championship meet plus saw Head Coach Amanda Caldwell along with her staff being named the American's Coaching Staff of the Year. The program also had 10 qualify to participate in the National Championship Invitational this season, three divers that earned bids to the Zone D Diving Championship, had four swimmers named to the Academic All-District by the College Sports Communicators and six that were CSCAA Scholar All-Americans. Additionally the program had nine NCAA 'B' cuts, placed fifth at the CSCAA Open Water Championships and racked up 10 American Conference Weekly honors (five swimmers of the week, two freshman swimmers of the week, two freshman divers of the week and one conference diver of the week).
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