Swimming & Diving Finalizes the 2025-26 Season Schedule – UK Athletics

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky swimming and diving program completed their 2025-26 schedule, that includes plenty of high-level competitors as head coach Bret Lundgaard enters his third season in Lexington, as introduced on Monday.

The schedule options an intersquad exhibition, the World Aquatics World Cup, 4 meets in opposition to SEC opponents, two invitationals, and extra. Both squads will face six opponents throughout the common season that completed the 2024-25 season ranked within the high 20. They will tackle a further 5 groups ranked within the high 25 on the SEC Championships.

The season kicks off with an intersquad blue, white meet on Sept. 26 at 4 p.m., with the primary official meet being the World Aquatics World Cup in Carmel, Indiana (Oct. 10-12).

The first probability to look at the Wildcats on the Lancaster Aquatic Center is in opposition to Indiana on October 22 at 10 a.m. Indiana completed final season with their males ranked No. 2 and their girls No. 7.

Kentucky will then hit the street for the remainder of 2025 with meets at LSU on October 24 at midday, at Louisville on November 6 at 4 p.m., and on the Ohio State Invite in Columbus on November 18-21. The diving squad will make a journey of their very own to Winter Nationals on December 8 and return December 14.

UK returns from the vacation with two dwelling meets. One will probably be a tri-meet with Purdue and Notre Dame on January 9 and the opposite will probably be in opposition to SEC opponent Missouri on January 10, each at 11 a.m.

The following week the Wildcats will journey to Nashville on January 16, the place the ladies will probably be in a tri-meet in opposition to Vanderbilt and Texas A&M and the lads’s group will tackle simply Texas A&M at 1 p.m.

They will journey dwelling for senior day and the final dwelling meet of the season on January 30 for a meet in opposition to Cincinnati at 5 p.m.

The First Chance Meet in Louisville will probably be February 5 and 6, adopted by the 2025-26 SEC Championships held by Tennessee from February 16-21.

NCAA Diving Zones will probably be held in Ypsilanti, Michigan from March Sep 11. The fourth annual CSCAA National Invite will probably be held later that week in Ocala, Florida from March 13-15.

The 2024-25 collegiate swimming and diving season culminates with the Women’s NCAA Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, March 18-21, adopted by the Men’s NCAA Championship, March 25-28.

Kentucky returns 5 NCAA particular person qualifiers from 2024-25, three males and two girls. Last season, the lads positioned ninth within the SEC and twentieth within the NCAA, whereas the ladies completed eleventh within the convention.

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