Burnsville, Minn. – The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference released the 2024-25 Preseason Swimming & Diving Coaches' Poll today with the Northern State Wolves picked seventh. NSU tallied 21 team points in the poll. Abbegael Nynas and Jacie Flockhart picked as the swimmer and diver to watch this season.
 
The Wolves went 4-9 in 2023-24, finishing the year eighth at the NSIC Championships. In addition, the 2023-24 Wolves broke six school records.

HUNTROD'S THOUGHTS HEADING INTO 2024-25:

• On the team: "I believe we have a pretty special team this year. From speaking with the coaches, the captains and those in the Northern/Aberdeen community they believe we have a pretty amazing group of ladies. In team bonding, practice and in general being around each other they are a pretty supportive and competitive bunch. We have an addition to our coaching staff with our graduate assistant Keely Lacina who is excited to shift from being in the pool to on the deck coaching. We have a large roster this year filling in some events and spots we have not been able to the past couple of seasons and that will have big impacts both at dual meets and at conference competition. From the distance events to sprint and diving we have a solid team. The swim and dive season is a long road, and this team is excited to get started."
• On Abbegael Nynas: "Abbegael is a freshman distance and backstroke swimmer out of Montana. She has been looking great in practice and eager to get into some races to show what she can do. She was the first of her class to commit and has been a great team player and supporter since coming out on her visit. We are excited to see Abbegael get her college career started and get some racing in."
• On Jacie Flockhart: "Jacie concluded last year with a record-breaking performance and wants to use that to launch into this season. We have more consistent training for her and that will be game changing for this season. Jacie is hungry for competition this year and will be adding to her dive list to increase the degree of difficulty and really stack the points."

 NSIC coaches rank each team from 1 to 8 with a first-place vote receiving 8 points, second place 7, third place 6, etc. Coaches do not rank their own team or vote for their own players in the preseason poll.
 
The NSIC sponsored women's swimming and diving during the 2012-13 and 2013-14 academic years with the aid of affiliated members. In 2016-17 season, NSIC Swimming and Diving returned as a seven team all NSIC sport. In 2019-20 the NSIC moved to eight participating members with the addition of Southwest Minnesota State and is now a nine-team league with the addition of Concordia-St. Paul in 2020-21. 
 
The NSIC Swimming and Diving season will get underway on Friday, September 27 with the regular season culminating at the NSIC Swimming & Diving Championship on February 12-15, 2025 at the Hulbert Aquatic Center in West Fargo, North Dakota.; hosted by Minnesota State University Moorhead.