FAIRBANKS - The Alaska Nanooks swim team opens their 2022-23 season with their annual Blue/Gold meet on Friday, Sept. 30 and Saturday, Oct. 1.
Friday, Sept. 30
Blue/Gold |
Live Video
5:00 p.m. | Patty Center Pool
Saturday, Oct. 1
Blue/Gold
10:00 a.m. | Patty Center Pool
Last Time Out
The Nanooks are competing for the first time since the final day of the 2022 PCSC Championships on Feb. 19, 2022 at Utah Tech in St. George, Utah. To end the season last February, the Nanooks battled to a seventh-place finish at conferences tallying 405.5 team points. The Nanooks opened up the 2021-22 season with a historic start. They opened the year with four-consecutive head-to-head meet wins, starting 4-0 for the first time since the programs resumption in 2005.
The Blue Team took the win in last year's Blue/Gold Meet by the final score of 175-137. After day one, Blue held a small 74-71 lead before blowing up for the 38 point win.
The Teams
Blue Team
Naomi Burgan
Kylee Carter*
Gabrielle Davy
Camille Dayton*
Lainey Lioi
Kyleigh McArthur
Ali Pecore
Kaidence Sampsel
Emma Seward
Gold Team
Taryn Aho*
Adeline Berry
Cassie Erdman
Shannon McCallum
Mesa Moran
Annalise Olsson
Sophia Ruppert
Cameron Valent
Payton Wojciechowicz*
Event Schedule
Friday, September 30th, 2022
Warmup: 3:30 p.m.
Meet Start: 5:00 p.m.
Day One Events:
200 Medley Relay
10 Minute Break
1000 Fr
50 Br
200 Fr
100 Bk
10 Minute Break
100 Br
200 Fl
50 Fr
Saturday, October 1st, 2021
Warmup: 8:30 a.m.
Meet Start: 10:00 a.m.
Day Two Events:
50 Fl
200 Bk
100 Fr
200 Br
10 Minute Break
500 Fr
100 Fl
50 Bk
200 IM
10 Minute Break
200 Free Relay
Meet the Coaches
Kelsey Leeson returns for her fourth year with the Alaska Nanooks swim team. After spending the 2021-22 season as the interim head coach, she moves back into her role as the assistant coach with the hiring of Ksenia Gromova. Gromova takes over for Leeson after she stepped into the position following the departure of former coach Cam Kainer. Gromova joins the Nanooks after spending 2021-22 with the Michigan Wolverines as a volunteer assistant. She has made stops along her career at Michigan, Duquesne University, Lindenwood Belleville, Incarnate Word and has spent time with high school clubs.
Leeson is in her fourth season and this will be her third in the assistant coach position. She has been with the Nanooks since Aug. 2019. Prior to Fairbanks, she spent time as the head swim coach for the Juan Diego Catholic High School and the Summit Academy High School teams in Utah. Before then, she graduated from St. Cloud State in 2016 where she was a four-year member of the swim team.
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