2025-26 Women's Swimming & Diving Roster

John VanderMeer

Savannah Karas

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Dripping Springs
  • Hometown Driftwood, Texas
  • Major Mechanical Engineering

Biography

Career Top Times

2024-25:
Represented the Orediggers at seven meets during her junior campaign ... Scored team points for Mines in four individual events and as part of one relay at the RMAC Swimming & Diving Championships ... Best individual finish at the conference meet was fifth in the 200-fly while taking 11th in the 100-fly, 20th in the 200-IM, and 23rd in the 100-free ... Helped Mines' second 200-medley relay finish 11th in the RMAC ... Also raced two 50-free exhibitions at the postseason event ... For the season, ranked top-75 in the nation in the 200-fly ... Her 100-fly and 200-IM at the RMAC races were her fastest times of the season in those events ... Regular-season racing highlights included two second-place finishes and a third-place finish in the 200-fly, 200-IM, and 100-fly against Colorado State ... Still maintained the program's 200-fly record after breaking it during the 2023-24 campaign.

2023-24: Maxed out on individual events at the RMAC Championships and scored team points for Mines in three of them including the 200-IM, 200-fly, and 100-fly ... Top finish at the conference meet was seventh in both the 100-fly and 200-fly, swimming 57.49 and 2:09.08, respectively ... Took 16th in the 200-IM after stopping the clock at 2:13.86 ... Also finished 19th in the 100-free with a time of 54.08 ... Helped the Orediggers' 400-freestyle relay take fifth on an overall pace of 3:34.37 ... Also provided legs on Mines' second 200-medley and 400-medley relays which both placed 12th with times of 1:48.28 and 3:54.08 ... Produced career-best times in six events during the season including the 50-free, 100-free, 50-fly, 100-fly, 200-fly, and 100-IM ... Finished the year ranked top-100 in the nation in the 50-fly, 100-fly, 200-fly, and 100-IM ... Broke the program record in the 200-fly and produced a NCAA "B" cut by swimming 2:06.05 at the TYR CMU Inviational on Nov. 18.

2022-23: Second-Team All-RMAC (200-fly) ... Made her RMAC Championships debut and took fourth in the league in the 200-fly thanks to a time of 2:09.74 ... Overall appeared in four individual events and as part of one relay at the conference meet ... In addition to her 200-fly performance, scored team points for Mines in the 100-fly, and as part of the 200-medley relay ... Finished sixth in the 100-fly after stopping the clock at 58.59 ... Helped the Orediggers grab 14 points in the 200-medley relay with a time of 1:47.31 ... Other races at the conference meet included the 100-free and 50-free where she took 26th and 27th, respectively ... Her 50-free time of 25.09 marked a personal record.

HIGH SCHOOL: Two-time Texas 5A state meet qualifier at Dripping Springs … Specializes in the 100- and 200-fly and 200-free … Finished on the podium three times at states including an individual eighth in the 2020 100-fly … Two-year All-State honoree in a combined nine events … Also swam for Texas Longhorn Aquatics … Competed at the 2021 Futures Championships … DSHS Education Foundation Student Leadership Grant recipient … College Board National Hispanic Scholar and National Rural and Small Town Scholar … Academic Achievement award recipient.

Historical Player Information

  • 2022-23Freshman

  • 2023-24Sophomore

  • 2024-25Junior

  • 2025-26Senior