Marquette Will Miss The Focused Begin For The Ladies’s Swimming Staff

Today is September fifteenth. Why do I level that out? Because of this line within the authentic Marquette press launch, emphasis mine:

The ladies’s swimming season runs from mid-September by early March, capped by the league championship meet at a impartial web site in late February.

You don’t get extra mid-September than the fifteenth day of a 30 day month, and the actual fact of the matter is that Marquette doesn’t have a ladies’s swimming group. They have a press launch saying they’ve one and {that a} locker room exists for stated group, they usually have hyperlinks on GoMarquette.com to level you to a schedule and a roster, however they don’t even have a group. In order to have a group, you must have a head coach, and Marquette doesn’t have one. If you don’t have a head coach, they haven’t recruited any athletes or held an on-campus tryout, and subsequently: No coach = no athletes = no group.

Why did Marquette announce that they had been beginning a swimming group in 2025-26? Why did they announce that in May of 2025, roughly two months after the top of the swimming athletic calendar in accordance with their very own press launch? Why did they announce in May 2025, as I famous, it will appear that the plans to construct the swim group locker room date all the way in which again to 2022? You’d assume that the good and logical factor to do would have been to make this announcement a few yr in the past in order that when the 2024-25 swimming season wound down and their teaching carousel wound up, you had been proper within the thick of issues relative to hiring a coach. That may have made the timeline to begin this college yr work, however as an alternative, Marquette and really particularly athletic director Mike Broeker did not try this, and right here we’re.

The finest case state of affairs is that somebody, in all probability a number of someones, in Marquette’s administration grossly overestimated the probability that they’d be capable to interview and rent a head coach, a position that is still listed as open and available since May 9th, 2025, on Marquette’s HR website by the way in which, lengthy earlier than this college yr began. The worst case state of affairs is that Marquette is totally half-assing this enlargement of girls’s athletics and competitors. I assume we’ll simply wait til the spring and hope that there’s an announcement of a coach then?

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