Vassar Cruises To Season Opening Victories Over Bard, New Paltz

Brewers post 12 victories in sweep

Poughkeepsie, NY – The Vassar College Women's Swimming and Diving team swam past Bard 153-18 and New Paltz 152-57 on Wednesday to open the 2025-26 season. The Brewers won 12 events in the meet at Kresge Pool, getting two victories apiece from Quinn Hoagland (Colts Neck, NJ) and Anna Little (North Huntingdon, PA).

Vassar kicks-off the season with a 2-0 record with New Paltz sitting at 1-1 ad Bard at 0-2.

For The Brewers

Hoagland got the season off to a strong start with victories for the Brewers in the 200-yard freestyle (2:06.12) and the 500-yard freestyle (5:36.77).
Little topped the field on Wednesday in both the 200-yard individual medley (2:19.91) and the 100-yard breaststroke (1:11.58).
Senior Maleigha Vietti (Overland Park, KS) scored a win in the longest event of the evening, posting a time of 11:27.03 in the 1,000-yard freestyle. Vietti went on to finish second in the 100-yard backstroke (1:05.80).
Lilly Masters (Bloomfield Village, MI) touched out first in the 50-yard freestyle (26.22) and added a runner-up finish for the Brewers in the 100-yard freestyle (57.90).
Vivien Li (Pittsburgh, PA) posted a winning swim in the 100-yard butterfly on Wednesday, showing a time of 1:00.10.
First Year Abigail Ford (Califon, NJ) won the 100-yard freestyle for the Brewers (55.42).
Classmate Clare Baker (Lafayette, CA) added a victory in the 100-yard backstroke for Vassar (1:02.13).
Caroline Griem (Brooklyn, NY) opened the season with a victory in 1-meter diving on Wednesday, posting a score of 136.60.
Graciela Leahy (Columbus, OH) opened her collegiate career with a win off the 3-meter board (69.90) and placed second in 1-meter diving (106.30).
First Year Isabel Holmes (New York, NY) turned in a pair of runner-up finishes, placing second in the 200-yard individual medley (2:22.37) and the 100-yard butterfly (1:04.02).
Alaina Desautels (Arlington, VA) touched out second on Wednesday in the 50-yard freestyle (26.36).
Stella Petersen (Hockessin, DE) finished second for the Brewers in the 500-yard freestyle (5:43.53).
Abigail Mirick (Stoneham, MA) in the 1,000-yard freestyle and Eva D'Addario (Baltimore, MD) in the 100-yard breaststroke each finished with third-place finishes on Wednesday for the Brewers.
Vassar took the top two spots in the 200-yard medley relay race with the team of Baker, Little, Li and Ford winning in a time of 1:53.90.
The quartet of Petersen, D'Addario, Holmes and Desautels was the runner-up in 2:03.00.