Swimming and Diving Publicizes Schedule for 2025-26 Season – LSU

BATON ROUGE, La. – The LSU swimming and diving group launched its 2025-26 schedule consisting of 5 house meets, three away meets, and three invitationals Wednesday, LSU Athletics and head coach Rick Bishop introduced.

The Tigers will start the season with the annual Purple and Gold Intrasquad on Saturday, Sept. 13 within the LSU Natatorium. For its first outdoors competitors, LSU travels to Robson & Lindsey Aquatics Center in Dallas, Texas as SMU welcomes the Tigers as a part of the SMU Classic on Oct. 10-11. 

LSU hits the highway once more the next week after they journey to Colorado Springs, Colo. The Tigers face off with host college Air Force, in addition to Wyoming and Denver. The meet might be held on Oct. 18 in Cadet Natatorium.

The Tigers will open the doorways of the LSU Natatorium for his or her first house meet on Friday, Oct. 24, welcoming convention opponent, the Kentucky Wildcats.

Following its first convention twin meet towards the Wildcats, LSU may have two separate house meets which happen on back-to-back days. On Friday, Nov. 7, LSU performs host to Alabama and Florida State. On Saturday, Nov. 8 the Tigers will host a ladies’s solely quad meet that options Rice, Houston, and Tulane. 

The Tigers will then head to Gabrielsen Natatorium on the University of Georgia for 3 days as a part of the Georgia Invitational. The meet will start on Nov. 19 and conclude on Nov. 21. After competing on the Georgia Invitational, LSU heads to the U.S. Open in Austin, Texas. The meet might be held at Lee & Joe Jamail Texas Swim Center from Dec. 3-6.

To kick off the brand new 12 months, the diving group will journey to Knoxville, Tenn., for the Tennessee Diving Invitational. The meet might be held from Jan. 3-5 in Allan Jones Intercollegiate Aquatic Center. Following the meet, the swimming and diving groups take a go to to the University of Florida for a twin meet with the Gators on Jan. 10.

LSU returns house for his or her ultimate house meet of the season on Jan. 24 when they are going to as soon as once more face the SMU Mustangs. The meet will function the popularity of the Tigers’ senior class. A choose group of Tigers will swim on the Auburn Invitational/First Chance Meet which is able to happen through the first weekend of February within the James E. Martin Aquatics Center.

After the conclusion of the common season, the Tigers journey again to the University of Tennessee for one week to battle for the SEC Championship. The convention championships are held from Feb. 16-21. Last season, each the LSU males’s and ladies’s swimming and diving squads positioned seventh on the convention meet.

Following the convention championships, LSU will start their chase for the NCAA title. The Tigers’ diving group hits the highway for NCAA Zone D Diving Regionals at Texas A&M University.

The divers who certified at regionals in addition to swimmers who certified all through the season will proceed competing at their respective NCAA Championship meets. The ladies’s nationwide meet begins on March 18 and concludes on March 21 whereas the boys’s meet begins on March 25 and finishes on March 28. Both meets happen in Atlanta Ga., at McAuley Aquatic Center.