Swimming Reveals 2025-26 Competition Schedule

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – North Florida swimming reveals its schedule for the 2025-26 competitors season, as introduced by Head Coach Ian Coffey on Monday afternoon.

The Ospreys are set to host three meets on the UNF Competition Pool Complex. The season begins with an intrasquad house competitors with the Blue/Grey Meet on Sept. 6, adopted with the Osprey Beach Blast Invite from Oct. 10-11 and a twin meet towards Georgia Southern on Oct. 25.

“I am very excited with our schedule for the 2025-26 season,” Coffey acknowledged. “Our program will be tested in every competition by swimming teams from the SEC, ACC, and ASUN conferences.”

After the Blue/Grey Meet, UNF will journey all the way down to face off towards Rollins on Sept. 26 at Alfond Swimming Pool in Winter Park, Fla. They will take a brief journey to Vanderbilt the next weekend and compete towards the Commodores on Oct. 4 at Centennial Sportsplex in Nashville, Tenn.

The Osprey Beach Blast Invite will happen the following weekend from Oct. 10-11, because it returns from a one-year hiatus with final season’s meet being canceled as a consequence of impending climate. The first meet day will begin at 6 p.m., adopted with 10 a.m. and three p.m. begin instances on the second day on the UNF Competition Pool Complex.

“We start off the season with two road meets at Rollins for the first time, as well as going to Vanderbilt the following weekend. We have not been to Vanderbilt since 2016, so we are looking forward to swimming against them in their home pool,” mentioned Coffey. “In mid-October, we’ll be hosting the Osprey Beach Blast Invite. During this two-day, three-session invite, we will be swimming each session in the NIC meet format.”

They will then make their annual journey to Tallahassee, Fla., for the Florida State Quad Meet on Oct. 24 on the Morcom Aquatics Center. This would be the fifth straight 12 months that the Ospreys will make the journey down the Florida Panhandle.

On Oct. 25, North Florida will honor its senior swimmers towards Georgia Southern on Senior Day for the third and remaining house meet of the season. It would be the first of two matchups with the Eagles, as they may make the journey as much as Statesboro, Ga., in January.

After one other three-day street journey for the Gamecock Invite from Nov. 19-21, choose Osprey swimmers will compete within the CSCAA Open Water Championship at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla. It’s the fourth straight time touring to Columbia, S.C., for South Carolina’s house competitors, in addition to UNF’s first look on the CSCAA Open Water Swim because the 2018-19 season.

“Later in October, we’ll be swimming at the annual Florida State Quad meet and then swim against Georgia Southern the next day during our Senior Day,” Coffey mentioned in regards to the fast turnaround. “Returning to the Gamecock Invite in November will be a good indication on where we are in the season. It’s a great opportunity to suit up and race fast. We finish the first half of our season at the CSCCA Open Water event in Sarasota, Fla.”

Following Christmas break, UNF returns the favor with Georgia Southern on the back-half of a home-and-home collection on Jan. 10 on the Recreation Activity Center in Statesboro, Ga. Later within the month, they make their manner all the way down to Fort Myers, Fla., to see one other ASUN foe in Florida Gulf Coast for his or her twin meet from Jan. 30-31 at FGCU Aquatics Center.

The common season caps off at FGCU and the main focus will transfer in direction of the Atlantic Sun Conference Swimming & Diving Championship from Feb. 17-21 hosted at Allan Jones Aquatic Center in Orlando, Fla. The five-day meet will function all 10 ASUN groups, which incorporates Bellarmine, Delaware, FAU, FGCU, Garder-Webb, Georgia Southern, Old Dominion, Queens and UNC-Asheville.

“The second half of the season, we prepare for the ASUN Championships. January meets against Georgia Southern and Florida Gulf Coast will get us ready to swim fast in February,” Coffey mentioned on winter slate. “The ASUN Championship will be held in Orlando, Fla., this season, so we won’t be traveling as far as usual. We are looking to score as many points as we can at the meet, as well as breaking records, moving up in the standings and getting to the postseason.”

After the ASUN Championships, choose swimmers for the Ospreys will end out the 2025-26 competitors season on the National Invitational Championship from Mar. 12-14 on the Florida Aquatics Swimming & Training in Ocala, Fla.