Swimming & Diving Welcomes New Class for 2025-26
9/10/2025 10:52:00 AM | Men's Swimming and Diving, Women's Swimming and Diving
WASHINGTON - The George Washington University men's & women's swimming and diving teams have announced its incoming class for the 2025-26 season. 19 student-athletes have arrived in Foggy Bottom to bolster the Revolutionaries' rosters ahead of GW's attempt at a fifth-consecutive sweep of the Atlantic 10 Championship titles.Â
"This class marks the true finish of my first year at GW," said GW Swimming & Diving Head Coach Chico Rego. "The new class arrives at a high level and will help us reach new heights with the program. The incoming class ranges with student-athletes with conference scoring times, all the way up to Olympians, and I can't wait to see what they will do at Foggy Bottom."
Alessandro Borsato | First-Year | Montebelluna, Italy | Breaststroke
2023 Italian Junior Champion in the 50 breast...EuroJunior Champs Semifinalist...Club record holder in the 50 SCM breast
Andres Brooks | First-Year | Austin, TX | Butterfly/IM
5x NISCA All-American & 3x Anderson Swim & Dive Team Record Holder (200 Medley Relay, 200 IM, 100 Fly)...4 Varsity Letters...3x State Meet Qualifier...Earned All-State, All-Region, and All-District honors...2x Anderson High School team MVP...2024 Anderson High School Athlete of the Year...2024 Winter Junior National Champion (200 Medley Relay)...Puerto Rican National Team Member...2X Most Improved Waterloo...2X Waterloo Award
Jadin Brown | First-Year | Berkeley, CA | DivingÂ
California North Coast Section Qualifier in 2023 and 2024…State Qualifier in 2023…Ranked 16th in the State of California in 2023
Christian Dantey | First-Year | Pittsburgh, PA | Freestyle/Breaststroke
Junior National Qualifier (2023)...WPIAL Champion 200 Freestyle (2023)...Allegheny Mountain Swimming Elite camp (2022)...High Honors, Meritorious Student Award, 4x Scholar Athlete
Owen Fritts | First-Year | Isle of Palms, SC | Sprint Freestyle
10X SCHSL State Champion...2x Scholastic All-American...Junior Nationals qualifier...High School Class Salutatorian...Member of National Honor Society
Talya Erdogan | First-Year | Doga Science High School | Distance
2025 World Junior Open Water Championships qualifier...Turkish champion at 1,500, 800 freestyle and 10k open water...2025, 2023 & 2022 European Junior Swimming Championships qualifier...2023 World Junior Championship Finalist...2022 European Junior Open Water Championship 5k bronze medalist…4x1,250 mix medley winner
Julia Gomez Carpi | First-Year | Belo Horizonte, Brazil | Breaststroke/IM
2023 Junior Brazilian Champion in 100 breaststroke…2022 Category Brazilian Champion in 200 breaststroke
Mia Hren | First-Year | Gornja Stubica, Croatia | Freestyle
7th in 4x100 free relay on European Junior Swimming Championships in Šamorin 2025...National Swimming Champion 2024 in 50 and 200 free...6th in 4x100 free relay on European Junior Swimming Championships in Otopeni 2022
Sophia Lord | First-Year | New York | Butterfly/IM
2x state qualifier…2x high school MVP
Ellie Lydon | First-Year | Chattanooga, TN |Â IM
State champion as a freshman and senior in high school, on a team that reached the state championships in all four of her seasons…2x relay All-American…5x futures qualifier and NCSA qualifier
Joselle Mensah | Graduate Student | Lindenwood | Bad Vilbel, Germany | Sprint
Joined GW swimming & diving in the spring of 2025...2024 Paris Olympian…All-Summit League in 2024…African Games finalist in 2024...2021-2022: CSCAA All-American...CSCAA Scholar All-America First Team...Academic All-GLVC...Female Recipient for Newcomer of the Year
Christian Merturi | First-Year | Mahwah, NJ | Diving
2025 NJSIAA Diving State Champion…2024 & 2025 Honor Roll recipient…2025 Minds in Motion recipient...2023 and 2024 AAU National Qualifier...With Pike Dive Academy, earned the 2023 excellence in sportsmanship award recipient and the 2024 most improved diver award recipient
Heitor Napolitano Fonseca Reis | First-Year | São Paulo, Brazil | Butterfly/IM
2025: Medalist at Brazilian Senior National Championships (4x200m Freestyle Relay)...2024: Brazilian Junior National Champion (200m Individual Medley)...Medalist at Brazilian Senior National Championships (4x200m Freestyle Relay)...2023: Brazilian Senior National Champion (4x200m Freestyle Relay)...Finalist at Junior World Championships (4x100m and 4x200m Freestyle Relays) 2023 – South American Junior Champion (200m Butterfly)...South American Junior runner-up (200m Individual Medley)...2022: Finalist at Junior World Championships (200m Butterfly)...Silver Medalist at ISF Gymnasiade (200m Butterfly)...Brazilian Junior National Champion (200m Butterfly)
Marcella Orlandini | First-Year | Miami, FL | Sprint Freestyle
Nominated for Girls Swimmer of the Year in Palm Beach County...4x Florida state medalist...NCSAS qualifier...First Team & Honorable Mention All-County
Matija Radjenovic | Sophomore | Subotica, Serbia | Breaststroke/IMÂ
Joined GW Swimming & Diving in spring of 2025...Swam exhibition at 2025 A-10 Championships in the 200-yard IM (1:47.35), 200-yard free (1:38.45) and 200-yard breast (1:59.04)
Artur Tobler | Sophomore | Tallinn, Estonia | IM/ButterflyÂ
Joined GW swimming & diving in the spring of 2025 before helping the men's team secure the team title with 25.5 points at the A-10 Championships...Made the A-final in the 200-yard IM and finished in seventh place (1:48.25)...Won the B-final of the 100-yard fly (47.43)...Placed 12th in the 100-yard free (44.99)...Set PR in the 100-yard free prelims (44.95)...Nordic champion 2024...European Junior Championships semifinalist 2022
Merve Tuncel | Sophomore | Louisville | Ankara, Turkiye | Distance Freestyle
6th place in the 800M freestyle at the 2024 European Aquatics Championships...Earned two gold medals in the 1,500M and 800M freestyles at the 2023 European Junior Championships...Competed in the 200M, 400M, 800M and 1,500M freestyles at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships...Won gold medals in the 400M, 800M and 1,500M freestyles, and a bronze medal in the 200M freestyle at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships...First Turkish female swimmer to win gold in the 800M freestyle at the 2022 Mediterranean Games...Earned bronze in the 800M freestyle at the 2022 European Aquatics Championships, the first-ever medal won by a female Turkish swimmer at the European Aquatics Championships
Logan Watson-Brown | Graduate Student | Southampton, Bermuda | Backstroke/Freestyle
4X SEC Honor Roll...2X UGA Student-Athlete Advisory Committee... Representing Bermuda, won title in 100m freestyle at 2024 Central American and Caribbean Swimming Federation, also finishing third in 200m freestyle, fourth in 50m and 200m backstroke, and fifth in 50m freestyle...Finished 31st in 200m freestyle and 44th in 100m backstroke at 2024 World Aquatics Short Course Championships
Eldad Zamir | First-Year | Tel Mond, Israel | Breaststroke
Florida 1A High School State Champion (100 Breaststroke, 200 medley relay) and All-American (2024)...USA Swimming Winter Junior Nationals East Champion (200y Medley Relay) (2024)...Florida 1A High School State Champion (100 Breaststroke) & All American (2023)...12x Israeli National Champion...USA Swimming Scholastic All American (2022, 2024)
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