SAN DIEGO –
Meet Preview
San Diego State vs. San Diego (Pentathlon Meet)
Friday, Sept. 17 | 2 p.m. PT | USD Sports Center Pool | San Diego, Calif.
The Aztec swim and dive team kicks off the 2021-22 season this Friday when they compete in their annual pentathlon meet against USD at the USD Sports Center pool in San Diego, Calif.
The Aztecs come off an impressive 2020-21 season that included their 12th consecutive top-three finish at the Mountain West Championships.
SDSU also went 4-0 in dual meets, giving the program their sixth perfect dual meet season in the last eight years.
Senior Klara Thormalm and then-junior Ximena Lechuga Gonzalez each qualified for the NCAA Championships, giving the Aztecs' a T-32nd place-finish with a total of 6 points scored.
Mike Shrader enters his 15th season as head coach at San Diego State. Shrader has built SDSU into one of the top programs in the Mountain West and has won seven Mountain West Swimming Coach of the Year titles and has coached Thomalm to back-to-back Mountain West Swimmer of the Year titles.
This will mark the tenth time in the last 11 seasons that SDSU has opened its season with a pentathlon meet against San Diego, and the Aztecs have won all nine of the prior season-opening meetings.
Meet Preview
San Diego State vs. San Diego (Pentathlon Meet)
Friday, Sept. 17 | 2 p.m. PT | USD Sports Center Pool | San Diego, Calif.
The Aztec swim and dive team kicks off the 2021-22 season this Friday when they compete in their annual pentathlon meet against USD at the USD Sports Center pool in San Diego, Calif.
The Aztecs come off an impressive 2020-21 season that included their 12th consecutive top-three finish at the Mountain West Championships.
SDSU also went 4-0 in dual meets, giving the program their sixth perfect dual meet season in the last eight years.
Senior Klara Thormalm and then-junior Ximena Lechuga Gonzalez each qualified for the NCAA Championships, giving the Aztecs' a T-32nd place-finish with a total of 6 points scored.
Mike Shrader enters his 15th season as head coach at San Diego State. Shrader has built SDSU into one of the top programs in the Mountain West and has won seven Mountain West Swimming Coach of the Year titles and has coached Thomalm to back-to-back Mountain West Swimmer of the Year titles.
This will mark the tenth time in the last 11 seasons that SDSU has opened its season with a pentathlon meet against San Diego, and the Aztecs have won all nine of the prior season-opening meetings.