Big Green Impress at Collegiate National Open Water Championship

Saturday, December 13

Sarasota, Fla.

8:30 AM

Dartmouth College

CSCAA Open Water Nationals

Big Green Impress at Collegiate National Open Water Championship

12/15/2025 3:33:00 PM | Men's Swimming & Diving, Women's Swimming & Diving

Complete Results

By: Justin Lafleur

SARASOTA, Fla. — Six members of the Dartmouth men's and women's swimming and diving teams competed at the Collegiate National Open Water Championship in Sarasota this weekend, seeing impressive success at the 5K race. Izzy Mundee led the women in finishing 13th out of 119, while Tommy Erwin finished 23rd out of 89 competitors to lead the men.

"Our swimmers did a great job; wonderful conditions led to some really good swims," said head coach Milana Socha. "Our men ended up swimming as a pack for a lot of the race. Xavier (Orlic), experienced with various open water events, led the charge through the first two laps of the course until Tommy made a move to take the lead for Dartmouth."

Erwin's final time was 55:42.8 while Orlic finished in 56:00.0, good for 31st. Jacob Turner was right behind Orlic in 32nd (56:02.8), with Yan Dvoretskiy placing 35th (56:12.8). All four Big Green swimmers finished in the top 40 percent of finishers.

"This was Jacob's first-ever open water competition and he executed a strong build throughout the race," said Socha. "Yan brought up the pack for the Big Green in his final open water event representing Dartmouth."

Mundee's stellar 13th place finish came in a time of 59:30.0.

"Izzy had a fabulous performance especially for her first ever 5K and open water race," said Socha. "She took out the race strong and held on to the top pack of women to finish in 13th — the Dartmouth women's team's highest-ever individual finish at this event."

Bethea also impressed in placing 50th overall with a time of 1:01.36.4.

"After battling injury last year, Carrin showed that she is fully back with her strong 5K, employing her school record sprinting abilities to pass two opponents in the final few strokes," said Socha.

The event was a strong finish to the pre-holiday schedule for the Big Green. They return to action the weekend of Jan. 9-10 in facing Penn and Yale in Philadelphia.

"Open water adds complexities such as sighting, lots of physical contact with competitors and dealing with the environment of the body of water you're competing in," said Socha. "I'm very proud of how these athletes embraced these challenges and turned it into a really fun day of racing."