Freshman Wins Two Swim National Championships

This spring, The Master’s University continued its remarkable run of collecting NAIA national championships. The school had won five such titles before 2023, but as of TMU Magazine’s March 2025 press deadline, the school had added 13 more.

Two of those came when freshman Katherine Dyer won the 200- and 400-yard individual medleys at the NAIA Swimming and Diving National Championships in Elkhart, Indiana, in March. Dyer set new NAIA meet records in both races. She was also the national runner-up in the 100 freestyle, one of two second-place finishes for the Mustangs. The other came from junior Kylee Sears in the 200 freestyle.

“I’ve been training the entire year for this,” Dyer said of the 200 individual medley. “To have it happen — to be here, and to win, and to break the record, is all so unreal.”

Earlier in the semester, TMU also added three more national titles in Gainesville, Florida, at the NAIA Indoor Track & Field National Championships.

The women’s Distance Medley Relay team of Ellen Palmgren, Olivia Nantz, Suzie Johnson, and Hannah Fredericks broke a 15-year-old NAIA record in their victory, while the women’s 4×800-meter relay (Fredericks, Rebekah Niednagel, Johnson, and Palmgren) secured TMU’s first-ever national title in that event. Hunter Angove claimed the national title in pole vault.

Says Fredericks, ​​”Our theme verse for this trip has been 2 Corinthians 5:9, which says, ‘So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please Him.’ This trip has been a sweet blessing from the Lord, and we know that this victory came from Him. The value of the podium is in the message that we proclaim from it, and Christ deserves all the glory!”

Men’s Volleyball Beats Stanford

TMU Men’s Volleyball went to Palo Alto on Feb. 15 and beat a Stanford University team that was ranked No. 8 in the NCAA at the time. The match went five sets, with the Mustangs pulling out one of the most impressive wins of the season and possibly in school history. TMU spent much of the season ranked No. 1 in the NAIA and, as of TMU Magazine’s print deadline, was poised for another deep run in the postseason. The NAIA national tournament was scheduled for April 28 through May 2 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Check gomustangs.com for the latest results.

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