Men’s Swimming and Diving Picked Second in SAA Preseason Poll

Rhodes College has been picked second within the 2025 Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Men’s Swimming and Diving Preseason Poll, incomes 43 factors and two first-place votes. The Lynx path solely Trinity University, which topped the ballot with 47 factors and 5 first-place votes.

The ballot was voted on by the league’s seven head coaches.

2025-26 SAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Preseason Poll

• Trinity – 47 (5)

• Rhodes – 43 (2)

• Centre – 37

• Berry – 31

• Southwestern – 28

• Sewanee – 27

• Millsaps – 18

The Lynx enter the season because the two-time defending SAA Champions, successful back-to-back titles in 2024 and 2025. Last yr, Rhodes scored 1,018 factors on the SAA Championships, marking the very best whole since Birmingham-Southern’s run in 2018.

Rhodes returns a number of key performers who helped safe the 2025 title. Jack Whitten, a three-time 200 Breast champion and NCAA qualifier, headlines the roster together with Philip Mu, final season’s 400 IM champion as a freshman, and Liam Ashton, the reigning 200 Fly champion. With a powerful mixture of veteran management and rising expertise, the Lynx are poised to problem for a 3rd straight convention crown.

The 2026 SAA Swimming and Diving Championship is scheduled for February 11–14 at Champions Hall in Danville, Kentucky.

SAA Men’s Swimming & Diving All-Time Champions

• 2025 – Rhodes (1018)

• 2024 – Rhodes (898)

• 2023 – Birmingham-Southern (932)

• 2022 – Birmingham-Southern (594.5)

• 2021 – Birmingham-Southern (808)

• 2020 – Birmingham-Southern (915)

• 2019 – Birmingham-Southern (889)

• 2018 – Birmingham-Southern (1070)

• 2017 – Birmingham-Southern (1013.5)

• 2016 – Birmingham-Southern (725)

• 2015 – Birmingham-Southern (975)

• 2014 – Centre (861)

• 2013 – Centre (854.5)